Dorel Simion (born February 13, 1977 in

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) is a

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. Simion won the Welterweight bronze medal at the

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. He also won gold at the 1997 World Championships and 1998 European Championships.

Personal

He is the younger brother of Olympian

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 ...

Amateur career

His Olympic results were: *Defeated Ruben Fuchu (Puerto Rico) RSCO 3 *Defeated Roberto Guerra (Cuba) 11–7 *Defeated Steven Kuchler (Germany) 26–14 *Lost to Oleg Saitov (Russia) 19–10

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