Ionuț Gheorghe

Ionuţ Gheorghe
Personal information
Full name	Ionuţ Gheorghe
Nationality	Romania
Born	February 29, 1984 (age 40); Constanţa
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb)
Sport
Sport	Boxing
Weight class	Light Welterweight
Medal record
Olympic Games
European Amateur Championships
EU Amateur Championships

Ionuţ Gheorghe (born 29 February 1984 in Constanţa, Romania)^[1] is a boxer from Romania.

Career

He qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in first place at the 3rd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Gothenburg, Sweden. In Athens, Greece he won a bronze medal, having been stopped in the semifinals of the Light welterweight (64 kg) division by eventual winner Manus Boonjumnong.

Gheorghe won another bronze medal in the same division two years later, at the 2006 European Amateur Boxing Championships in Plovdiv where he lost to local Boris Georgiev.

At the 2007 World Championships he was upset by Iranian Morteza Sepahvand but he qualified for the Olympics at the first qualifier.

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