Petrișor Gănănău

Laurențiu Petrișor Gănănău (born September 18, 1984 in Târgu Jiu , Gorj County ) is a Romanian boxer .

Life

Petrișor Gănănău started boxing in his hometown of Târgu Jiu. He mainly worked with the trainer Mihai Prunariu. He then boxed for Minerul Jilt Mătăsari . At the time he was a member of the police in Târgu Jiu and was supported by a local sponsoring group after he had already been retired by the Romanian boxing association "for lack of prospects".

In the years 2001 to 2003 Gănănău was Romanian junior champion in the light middle and middleweight division. In 2002 his career also began in the international boxing ring. This year he won the bronze medal in the light middleweight division (up to 72 kg body weight) in Santiago de Cuba . He won the same medal at the European Junior Championships in 2003 in Warsaw in the middleweight division. Here he lost to Yegor Mechonzew from Russia in the semifinals .

2004 Gănănău was the first Romanian middleweight champion with a victory over Ronald Gavril . For the Olympic Games in Athens he could not qualify. In the next few years he failed again and again in Romania due to Ronald Gavril and Constantin Bejenaru , so that he did not get any further appearances at international championships for the time being. In 2008 he was defeated in the finals of the Romanian light heavyweight championships (up to 81 kg) against Constantin Bejenaru. This year he was used in the qualifying tournament for the Olympic Games in Beijing in Athens in the heavyweight division (up to 91 kg) and was only defeated in the semifinals against Helios Pawlidis from Greece on points. But he missed the qualification for the games.

At the European Championships in Liverpool in 2008 , which took place after the Olympic Games in Beijing, he finally managed to win a senior medal in the heavyweight division. He came in the heavyweight division to the semi-finals, in which he was defeated against Yegor Mechonzew on points.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
2002	3.	Junior World Championships in Santiago de Cuba	Semi-middle	with victories over Utkir Soipow, Uzbekistan , Predrag Radosevic, Serbia-Montenegro u. Hassan Ndam, Cameroon a . a loss to Noelvis Diaz, Cuba
2003	1.	Brandenburg Cup	medium	before Artur Hofmeister, Germany a . Tony Jeffries , England
2003	3.	Junior European Championship in Warsaw	medium	with victories over Lukasz Janik, Poland a . Kennedy Katanga , Sweden a . a loss to Yegor Mechontsev , Russia
2005	9.	"Bocskai" Memorial in Debrecen	medium	after losing points to Imre Szellő , Hungary
2005	1.	"Golden Belt" tournament in Bucharest	medium	with a point win in the final over Javid Tagchiew, Azerbaijan
2005	2.	Games of the Francophonie in Niamey	medium	after losing a point in the final against Abdel Mohamed, Egypt
2006	3.	"Bocskai" Memorial in Debrecen	medium	with victories over Sead Muric, Switzerland a . Matej Matkovic, Croatia a . a loss to Oleksandr Ussyk , Ukraine
2006	3.	"Feliks-Stamm" Memorial in Warsaw	medium	with a victory over Vladimir Milewski, Lithuania a . a loss to Bakhtiar Artayev, Kazakhstan
2006	9.	EU championship in Pécs	medium	after losing the quarterfinals to Alexei Ribchew, Bulgaria
2007	3.	"Golden Belt" tournament in Constanța	Heavy	after losing to Helios Pawlidis , Greece in the semi-finals
2008	1.	"Golden Belt" tournament in Constanța	Heavy	after beating Janos Fekete, Hungary in the final
2008	3.	Olympic qualification tournament in Athens	Heavy	with victories over Stephen Simmons , Scotland , Spas Lazarow, Bulgaria a. Jozsef Darmos, Hungary a. a loss in the semifinals against Helios Pawlidis
2008	3.	EM in Liverpool	Heavy	with victories over Lukas Viktora, Czech Republic a . Con Sheehan, Ireland a . a loss to Yegor Mechontsev
2009	1.	Romanian Cup in Iași	Heavy	with victories over Rusalin Caldaras, Aurel Manole a. Adrian Poputea, all Romania

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Amateur Boxing Results. In: amateur-boxing.strefa.pl. Retrieved July 6, 2009 .