Ionuţ Gheorghe

Ionuţ Gheorghe
Personal information
Full name Ionuţ Gheorghe
Nationality  Romania
Born February 29, 1984 (1984-02-29) (age 28)
Constanţa
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 64 kg (140 lb)
Sport
Sport Boxing
Rated at Light Welterweight

Ionuţ Gheorghe (born 29 February 1984 in Constanţa, Romania)[1] is a boxer from Romania.

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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

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