Ion Cernea (born 21 October 1933) is a retired

bantamweight Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In mixed martial arts, MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class is derived from Ba ...

Greco-Roman wrestler from

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. Between 1960 and 1965 he earned two Olympic and two world championship medals, winning the world title in 1965. He retired the same year to become a wrestling coach and international referee, and was present in this capacity at all major international wrestling competitions between 1972 and 1988. Cernea is married to the singer

Irina Loghin Irina Loghin (born February 19, 1939) is a Romanian singer and politician, known as the best-selling artist from her domain in Romania. Born in Gura Vitioarei, Prahova County, she had a career as a folk music soloist. She made her radio debut in ...

; they have a son and a daughter.Curriculum vitae
at the Chamber of Deputies site Adriana Stanca (18 February 2013
"Irina Loghin, la 74 de ani"
''Gândul''

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1936 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Romania Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Romanian male sport wrestlers Olympic silver medalists for Romania Olympic bronze medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Argeș County {{Romania-wrestling-bio-stub