Gheorghiță Ștefan (born 17 January 1986, in Bucharest), also known as Ștefan Gheorghiță, is a freestyle wrestler from Romania. He participated in men's freestyle 74 kg at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He lost the bronze medal fight against Murad Gaidarov of Belorussia. However, after a positive doping test Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan was in November 2016 stripped of the silver medal. Ștefan Gheorghiță, therefore, moved up to a bronze medal position.[1]
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| Nationality | Romanian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 January 1986 (age 38) Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 178 cm (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 89 kg (196 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Rapid; Bucharest | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Cornel Zaharia (since 2000) Aurel Cimpoeru (since 2013) Anatoli Guidea (since 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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In 2016, he married Romanian judoka Corina Căprioriu.[2][3]
References
edit- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Stefan Gheorghiţă". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
- ^ "Judoka Corina Căprioriu s-a căsătorit cu luptătorul Ștefan Gheorghiță" [Judoka Corina Caprioriu married fighter Stefan Gheorghita]. Libertatea.ro (in Romanian). 26 September 2016.
- ^ "Nuntă mare în sportul românesc! Judoka Corina Căprioriu s-a căsătorit! Se lasă cu lupte în familie!" [Great wedding in Romanian sport! Judoka Corina Caprioriu married! Let them fight in the family!]. SpyNews.ro (in Romanian). 26 September 2016.
External links
edit- Gheorghiță Ștefan at the International Wrestling Database
- Gheorghiță Ștefan at Olympedia
- Gheorghiță Ștefan at Olympics.com
- Gheorghiță Ștefan at Olympic.org (archived)
- Gheorghiță Ștefan at the Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (in Romanian) (English translation)
- STEFAN Gheorghita at Beijing2008.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-09-07)
- STEFAN Gheorghita (family name: STEFAN, given name: Gheorghita) at Universiade 2013
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