Ionuţ Gheorghe

Ionut Gheorghe (born 29 February 1984 in Constanţa ) is a Romanian boxer.

Career

The Cadets ( U17) Gheorghe won the bronze medal in 1999 in the featherweight ( -57 kg ) and 2000 gold medal in the lightweight (-60 kg) at the European Championships.

2003 Gheorghe won for the first time the national championships at lightweight and was thus in 2004 at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Gothenburg in the light welterweight ( -64 kg ) participate, which he won ahead of Boris Georgiev. At the 2004 Olympic Games Gheorghe reached after victories over Faisal Kareem, Pakistan ( 26:11 ), Mustafa Karagollu, Turkey ( 28:19 ), and Michele Di Rocco, Italy ( 29:18 ), surprisingly the semi-finals, which he compared the defending champion Manus Boonjumnong, Thailand ( 30:9 ), lost and thus won the bronze medal.

At the 2005 World Championships Gheorghe not make it past the second round, which he lost to eventual Bronzenedaillengewinner Inocente Fiss, Cuba ( 38:18 ). The following year he won a bronze medal at the European Championships, where he this time Boris Georgiev subject. 2007 Gheorghe won the gold medal at the European Championships, where he among other things in the tournament Gyula Kate, Hungary ( 21:10 ), Alexis Vastine, France ( 31:26 ), and Slava Kerber, Germany ( 19:14 ) beat. At the world championships in the same year, however, he again did not come over the last sixteen addition, this time the Iranians Morteza Sepahvand ( 19:16 ) beat him, and also at the European Championships in 2008 was for him in the Round of 16 Final.

2008 Gheorghe took thanks to a second place at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Pescara at the Olympic Games in part, where he retired after a victory over Jonathan Gonzalez, Puerto Rico ( 21:4 ) already in the second round against Morteza Sepahvand.

At the European Championships 2010 Gheorghe started welterweight ( 69kg - ) and was eliminated in the quarterfinals by eventual gold medalist Bacskai Balazs, Hungary (RSC 2 ), from. Something similar happened to him at the World Championships in 2011, when he was already eliminated in the first round, and at the European Championships in 2011, which ended for him in the quarterfinals. His retirement at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Trabzon in 2012, he missed his third Olympic participation.

Swell

  • Amateur- boxing.strefa.pl
  • Boxrec.com
2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships 2007 AIBA World Boxing Championships 2008 European Amateur Boxing Championships 2010 European Amateur Boxing Championships 2011 AIBA World Boxing Championships 2011 European Amateur Boxing Championships
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