Marian Simion
Marian Simion is a Romanian boxer, who competed in the Light Middleweight 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.
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
1996- Defeated Hussein Bayram 13-6
- Defeated Fernando Vargas 8-7
- Defeated Hassan Al 16-8
- Lost to Juan Hernández Sierra 7-20
- Defeated Ciro di Corcia 19-8
- Defeated José Luis Zertuche RSC 3
- Defeated Frédéric Esther RSC 3
- Defeated Pornchai Thongburan 26-16
- Lost to Yermakhan Ibraimov 23-25
- Lost to Ramadan Yasser 29-36