Marijo Šivolija-Jelica (born 29 June 1981 in
Omišalj
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n amateur boxer and two-time Olympian best known to medal repeatedly in international competition at light heavyweight.
He also manages heavyweight boxer
Mark de Mori.
Career
In 2003 he won a silver medal at the European Championships.
In Athens at the
Olympics 2004 he was upset in the first round by
Edgar Muñoz
Edgar Ramón Muñoz Mata (born December 22, 1983) is a boxer from Venezuela, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native South American country.
Muñoz won the bronze medal in the same division in 2003 at the Pan American G ...
.
In 2005 he won a silver medal at the World Championships where he beat Armenian
Artak Malumyan 20:10 in the semis but was defeated in the final by Kazakh
Yerdos Dzhanabergenov 12:27.
At the Euros he was upset early by Frenchman Mamadou Diambang 23:27.
In 2007 at the World Championships he lost to eventual winner
Abbos Atoev
Abbos Abdurazzoqovich Atoyev (born 7 June 1986) is an Uzbek amateur boxer, best known for winning gold in the light heavyweight competition at the 2007 World Championships and at middleweight in 2009. He also won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summ ...
in the quarterfinals 6:17.
At the Olympics 2008 he lost his second match to
Dzhakhon Kurbanov 1:8.
He has since become the manager of heavyweight boxer
Mark de Mori.
External links
World Championships 2005*
Boxers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Boxers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers of Croatia
Living people
1981 births
Sportspeople from Rijeka
Croatian male boxers
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Light-heavyweight boxers
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in boxing
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Croatia
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