Marian Simion
{{short description|Romanian boxer}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
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|caption=Marian Simion in 2013
|birth_date={{birth-date and age|14 September 1975}}
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|medaltemplates={{MedalSport | Men's Boxing}}
{{MedalCountry | {{ROM}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalSilver| 2000 Sydney | Light Middleweight}}
{{MedalBronze| 1996 Atlanta | Welterweight}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Amateur Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 1999 Houston | Light Middleweight}}
{{MedalSilver| 2001 Belfast | Light Middleweight}}
{{MedalBronze| 1997 Budapest | Welterweight}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Amateur Championships}}
{{MedalSilver| 1996 Vejle | Welterweight}}
{{MedalBronze| 1998 Minsk | Welterweight}}
{{MedalBronze| 2002 Perm | Light Middleweight}}
{{MedalCompetition|EU Amateur Championships}}
{{MedalGold| 2004 Madrid | Middleweight}}
{{MedalCompetition|Goodwill Games}}
{{MedalSilver |2001 Brisbane|Light Middleweight}}
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Marian Simion (born 14 September 1975 in București) is a Romanian boxer, who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He repeated that feat one year later, at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast after having won the world title at the previous tournament in Houston, Texas, United States.
He is the older brother of Olympic boxer Dorel Simion. Simion qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by topping the 2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Warsaw, Poland. His EU Amateur Championships medals include a gold in 2004, a silver in 1996 and bronze in 1998 and 2002.
Olympic results
1996
- Defeated Hussein Bayram (France) 13-6
- Defeated Fernando Vargas (United States) 8-7
- Defeated Hassan Al (Denmark) 16-8
- Lost to Juan Hernández Sierra (Cuba) 7-20
2000
- Defeated Ciro di Corcia (Italy) 19-8
- Defeated José Luis Zertuche (Mexico) RSC 3
- Defeated Frédéric Esther (France) RSC 3
- Defeated Pornchai Thongburan (Thailand) 26-16
- Lost to Yermakhan Ibraimov (Kazakhstan) 23-25
2004
- Lost to Ramadan Yasser (Egypt) 29-36
External links
- {{Sports-Reference|si/marian-simion-1}}
{{Footer World Amateur Champions Light Middleweight}}
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Category:Olympic boxers for Romania
Category:Boxers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Romania
Category:Boxers from Bucharest
Category:Olympic medalists in boxing
Category:AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Category:Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
Category:Romanian Romani people
Category:20th-century Romanian sportsmen
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