Ionuț Gheorghe

Ionuț Gheorghe (born February 29, 1984 in Constanța ) is a Romanian boxer .

Career

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

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

At the 2005 World Championships , Gheorghe did not get beyond the round of 16, which he lost to the later bronze medalist Inocente Fiss, Cuba (38:18). The following year he won a bronze medal at the European Championships , this time he was defeated by Boris Georgiev. In 2007 Gheorghe won the gold medal at the EU championships, where he a. a. Gyula Káté , Hungary (21:10), Alexis Vastine , France (31:26), and Slawa Kerber , Germany (19:14) beat. At the World Championships in the same year, however, he did not get past the round of 16 again, this time the Iranian Morteza Sepahvand (19:16) defeated him , and at the European Championships in 2008 he finished in the last 16.

In 2008 Gheorghe took part in the Olympic Games thanks to a second place at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Pescara , where he was eliminated in the round of 16 against Morteza Sepahvand after defeating Jonathan Gonzalez, Puerto Rico (21: 4).

At the European Championships in 2010 Gheorghe started in the welterweight division (-69 kg) and was eliminated in the quarterfinals against the later gold medalist Balázs Bácskai , Hungary (RSC 2nd). It was similar for him at the 2011 World Championships , when he was eliminated in the preliminary round, and at the 2011 European Championships , which ended for him in the quarter-finals. With his elimination from the Olympic qualification tournament in Trabzon , he also missed his third Olympic participation in 2012.

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• amateur-boxing.strefa.pl
• boxrec.com

Web links

• Ionuț Gheorghe in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )