Ion Cernea
 Cernea at the 1960 Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 21 October 1933 Râu Alb, Argeș County, Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 June 2025 (aged 91) Bucharest, Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 161 cm (5 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Dinamo Bucuresti[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ion Cernea (21 October 1933 – 30 June 2025)[2] was a bantamweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Romania. Between 1960 and 1965 he earned two Olympic (a Silver in 1960 in Rome and a Bronze in 1964 in Tokyo) and two world championship medals, winning the world title in 1965.[3][4] 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.[1]
Cernea was married to the singer Irina Loghin; they had a son and a daughter.[5][6][7]
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ion Cernea.
- ^ a b Ion Cernea. Romanian Olympic Committee
- ^ A murit fostul mare campion la lupte Ion Cernea. A reprezentat clubul Dinamo ca sportiv și antrenor (in Romanian)
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ion Cernea". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- ^ Cernea, Ion (ROU). iat.uni-leipzig.de
- ^ (in Romanian) Curriculum vitae at the Chamber of Deputies site
- ^ (in Romanian) "Iubirile Irinei Loghin", Gândul, 27 January 2015
- ^ (in Romanian) Adriana Stanca (18 February 2013) "Irina Loghin, la 74 de ani", Gândul
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