Ionuţ Gheorghe

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name = Ionuţ Gheorghe


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

Career

He participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native European country. There 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

*Defeated Faisal Karim (Pakistan) 26-11
*Defeated Mustafa Karagollu (Turkey) 28-19
*Defeated Michele Di Rocco (Italy) 29-18
*Lost to Manus Boonjumnong (Thailand) 9-30

External links

* [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/athens2004/rou/Ionut+Gheorghe/385916 Yahoo! Sports]