Ionuț Gheorghe

{{short description|Romanian boxer}}

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| fullname = Ionuţ Gheorghe

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| nationality = {{ROM}}

| weight class = Light Welterweight

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1984|2|29}}

| birth_place = Constanţa

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| height = {{convert|1.73|m|ftin|0|abbr=on}}

| weight = {{convert|64|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze| 2004 Athens | Light Welterweight}}

{{MedalCompetition|European Amateur Championships}}

{{MedalBronze| 2006 Plovdiv | Light Welterweight}}

{{MedalCompetition|EU Amateur Championships}}

{{MedalSilver| 2007 Dublin | Light Welterweight}}

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Ionuţ Gheorghe (born 29 February 1984 in Constanţa, Romania){{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gh/ionut-gheorghe-1.html |title=Ionuţ Gheorghe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110919004429/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gh/ionut-gheorghe-1.html |archive-date=2011-09-19 |url-status=dead}} is a boxer from Romania.

Career

He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in first place at the 3rd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden. In Athens, Greece he won a bronze medal, having been stopped in the semifinals of the Light welterweight (64 kg) division by eventual winner Manus Boonjumnong.

Gheorghe won another bronze medal in the same division two years later, at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Plovdiv where he lost to local Boris Georgiev.

At the 2007 World Championships he was upset by Iranian Morteza Sepahvand but he qualified for the Olympics at the first qualifier.

Olympic results 2004

References