Ion Monea

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Ion Monea

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

Career

Ion Monea started boxing at the age of fifteen. He won the Romanian national championship of the juniors in the weight class up to 67 kg before he moved to the senior division of Dinamo Bucharest . At the age of nineteen, he first attracted international attention by winning the bronze medal in the middleweight division at the 1960 Olympic Games . In 1964 he was fifth in the middleweight division and in 1968 he won silver in the light heavyweight division in Mexico City after breaking his nose in the semifinals against Stanisław Dragan from Poland and not being allowed to compete in the final against Danas Pozniakas . Monea celebrated his first major success as a winner at the Balkan Championships in 1961. 1962 and 1963 he was able to repeat this title win. He won the silver medal at the European Boxing Championships in 1963 in Moscow in the middleweight division and at the European Boxing Championships in 1969 in Bucharest in the light heavyweight division. In 1967 he was able to win bronze in the light heavyweight championship in Rome . In his long career he was also eleven times Romanian champion: 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 (each in the middleweight division) and 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 and 1970 (each in the light heavyweight division).

In 1971 he retired from active sport and became a boxing trainer at Dinamo Bucharest , where he also looked after Rudel Obreja . In 1993 his left leg had to be amputated due to arthritis . In 2000 he received the Order of Merit "Serviciul Credincios" 1st class.

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gazeta Sporturilor of March 2, 2011 , accessed on March 2, 2011 (Romanian)
  2. ^ Evenimentul Zilei of March 2, 2011 , accessed on March 2, 2011 (Romanian)
  3. ↑ Prosport on 1 March 2011 , retrieved (Romanian) on September 16, 2012

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personal data
SURNAME Monea, Ion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian boxer
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Tohanu Vechi , Brasov County
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 2011
Place of death Bucharest