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| Full name | Ioan Ştefan Gherghel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | August 18, 1978 Baia Mare, Maramureş, Romania |
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| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 76 kilograms (170 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ioan Gherghel (born August 8, 1978 in Baia Mare, Maramureş, Romania)[1] is an Olympic butterfly swimmer from Romania. He swam for Romania at three consecutive Olympics: 2000, 2004 and 2008.[2]
At the 2000 European Championships, he won his first international medal: a bronze in the 200 butterfly, clocking 1:58.54.