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Marian Simion
Marian Simion (born 14 September 1975 in București) is a Romanian boxer, who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He repeated that feat one year later, at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast after having won the world title at the previous tournament in Houston, Texas, United States.
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Medal record
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He is the older brother of Olympic boxer Dorel Simion. Simion qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by topping the 2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Warsaw, Poland. His EU Amateur Championships medals include a gold in 2004, a silver in 1996 and bronze in 1998 and 2002.
Olympic results edit
1996
- Defeated Hussein Bayram (France) 13-6
- Defeated Fernando Vargas (United States) 8-7
- Defeated Hassan Al (Denmark) 16-8
- Lost to Juan Hernández Sierra (Cuba) 7-20
2000
- Defeated Ciro di Corcia (Italy) 19-8
- Defeated José Luis Zertuche (Mexico) RSC 3
- Defeated Frédéric Esther (France) RSC 3
- Defeated Pornchai Thongburan (Thailand) 26-16
- Lost to Yermakhan Ibraimov (Kazakhstan) 23-25
2004
- Lost to Ramadan Yasser (Egypt) 29-36
External links edit
- at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)