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Medal record Competitor for 
RomaniaMen’s Boxing Olympic Games Bronze 2000 Sydney Welterweight World Amateur Championships Gold 1997 Budapest Light Welterweight Bronze 2005 Mianyang Featherweight European Amateur Championships Gold 1998 Minsk Light Welterweight Bronze 2002 Perm Featherweight EU Amateur Championships Silver 2004 Madrid Featherweight Dorel Simion (born February 13, 1977 in Bucureşti) is a Romanian boxer. Simion won the Welterweight bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He is nicknamed "Bombardierul". He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece by ending up in first place at the 3rd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Personal
He is the younger brother of Olympian Marian Simion.
Amateur career
His Olympic results were:
- Defeated Ryan Langham (Australia) 40-15
- Defeated Mikhail Biarnadski (Belarus) 38-13
- Lost to Jo Seok-Hwan (South Korea) 35-39
External links
World Amateur Boxing Champions in Men's Light Welterweight 1974 – 2001: up to 63,5 kg • 2003 – 2011: up to 64 kg 1974: Ayub Kalule (UGA) • 1978: Valery Lvov (URS) • 1982: Carlos García (CUB) • 1986: Vassili Shyshov (URS) • 1989: Igor Ruzhnikov (URS) • 1991: Konstantin Tszyu (URS) • 1993: Héctor Vinent (CUB) • 1995: Héctor Vinent (CUB) • 1997: Dorel Simion (ROM) • 1999: Mahammatkodir Abdoollayev (UZB) • 2001: Diógenes Luña (CUB) • 2003: Willy Blain (FRA) • 2005: Serik Sapiyev (KAZ) • 2007: Serik Sapiyev (KAZ) • 2009: Roniel Iglesias (CUB) · 2011: Éverton Lopes (BRA)
Categories:- 1977 births
- Living people
- Romanian boxers
- Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers of Romania
- Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
- Olympic medalists in boxing
- Romanian Olympic medalist stubs
- Romanian sportspeople stubs
- European boxing biography stubs
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