Marijo Å ivolija

Marijo Šivolija - Jelica ( born June 29, 1981 in Rijeka ) is a former Croatian amateur boxer in the light heavyweight division, Vice European Champion 2004 and Vice World Champion of 2005.

Career

The 1.87 m wide multiple Croatian champion boxed for BK Rijeka and took in 1998 at the Junior World Championships in Buenos Aires, where he, however, in the first round of the middleweight and later the Russian silver medalist Vladimir Fedetow subject. In the Junior European Championships in 1999 in Rijeka, he defeated the Romanians Ionel Eseanu ( 6:2 ) and Nathan King of Wales ( 8:5 ), before the Russians and later gold medalist Alexander Alexeyev was defeated in the semifinals and then won a bronze medal in the light heavyweight division.

At the 2000 European Championships in Tampere, he lost the light heavyweight in the first round against the eventual silver medalist Claudiu Rasco from Romania ( 2:10 ). At the European Championships in February 2004 in Pula, he only lost in the final Evgeny Makarenko and so won the silver medal in the light heavyweight division. In the Summer Olympics that year in Athens, he was still lost in the first round against Edgar Muñoz from Venezuela ( 23:31 ).

In 2005 he won the silver medal at the European Championships in Cagliari and the bronze medal at the Mediterranean Games in Almería. He also started in November at the World Championships in Mianyang, where he successfully fought the silver medal in the light heavyweight division. He beat off the White Russians Andrei Miruk, Lei Yuping from China, Daugirdas Semiotas from Lithuania and Artak Malumjan from Armenia through before he only lost in the final against the Kazakhs Jerdos Dschanabergenow.

In the EU Championships in 2006 in Pécs and the EU Championships in 2007 in Dublin, he won a bronze medal. At the 2007 World Championships in Chicago, he won in the preliminary rounds against Javid Taghiev from Azerbaijan and Kenneth Egan from Ireland, but lost in the quarterfinals of the Uzbeks Abbo Atoyev.

Also at the EU Championships 2008 in Cetniewo he remained medaillenlos. Most recently, he still competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he, however, in the second preliminary round lost to Dschachan Kurbanov.