Ion Iulian Panait (born May 5, 1981 in

Mizil Mizil () is a town in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania. Located in the southeastern part of the county, it lies along the road between the cities of Ploiești and Buzău, and to the northeast of the national capital, Bucharest. Its position led i ...

) is an amateur Romanian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's welterweight category. He won two silver medals for his division at the

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, and at the

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. He is also a member of Dinamo București, and is coached and trained by Carare Petrica. Panait represented

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at the

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, where he competed for the men's 66 kg class. He received a bye for the second preliminary round, before losing out to China's Li Yanyan, with a technical score of 3–3 and a classification score of 1–3.

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Profile – International Wrestling Database
1981 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Romania Wrestlers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics People from Mizil Romanian male sport wrestlers 21st-century Romanian people Sportspeople from Prahova County {{Romania-wrestling-bio-stub