Ion Monea

Ion Monea ( born November 30, 1940 in Tohanu Vechi, Brasov county, † March 1, 2011 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian amateur boxer.

Career

Ion Monea began at the age of fifteen years with the boxes. He won the Romanian national champion juniors in the weight class up to 67 kg before he moved to the Senior Department of Dinamo Bucharest. Internationally, he made ​​the age of nineteen by winning the bronze medal in the middleweight division at the 1960 Olympic Games for the first time attention. In 1964, he was fifth in the middleweight division, and in 1968 he won in Mexico City silver light heavyweight after he had broken his nose in the semi-final against Poland Stanisław Dragan and in the final against Danas Pozniakas no longer allowed to compete. Monea celebrated his first major success as a winner in the Balkan Championships 1961. 1962 and 1963 he was able to repeat the title. In each case the silver medal he won at the Boxeuropameisterschaften 1963 in Moscow in the middleweight division and at the Boxeuropameisterschaften 1969 in Bucharest at light heavyweight. In 1967 he was able to win the light heavyweight in Rome EM bronze. In his long career, he was also eleven Romanian champion: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 ( each at middleweight ) and 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970 (in each case in the light heavyweight ).

In 1971 he retired from active sports and was boxing coach at Dinamo Bucharest, where he also oversaw pack Obreja among others. 1993 had it amputated due to arthritis left leg. In 2000 he was awarded the Order of Merit " Serviciul Credincios " First Class.

Ion Monea died on 1 March 2011 of a pulmonary embolism.