Adrian Diaconu
Overview
Ploiesti
Ploiești is the county seat of Prahova County and lies in the historical region of Wallachia in Romania. The city is located north of Bucharest....
, Prahova
Prahova
The word Prahova can refer to these places and features in Romania:* Prahova River* Prahova Valley* Prahova County, named after the Prahova River** Prahova Ploieşti, a football club based in Ploieşti** Stadionul Prahova, a football-only stadium in Ploieşti...
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n professional boxer
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, living and fighting out of Montreal
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, Quebec
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. He is the former WBC
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Light Heavyweight
Light heavyweight
In boxing, the light heavyweight is a weight division above 168 pounds [12 Stone or 76.204 kilograms] and up to 175 pounds [12.5 stone or 79.38 kilograms]), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight...
Champion.
Diaconu represented Romania at the 2000 Sydney Olympics as a Middleweight
Middleweight
Middleweight is a division, or weight class, in boxing. Early boxing history is less than exact, but the middleweight designation seems to have begun in the 1840s. In the bare-knuckle era, the first middleweight championship fight was between Tom Chandler and Dooney Harris in 1897...
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Olympic results were:
- Defeated Abdelghani Kinzi (AlgeriaAlgeriaAlgeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...
) 19-9 - Defeated Jitender Kumar (IndiaIndiaIndia , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
) 12-3 - Lost to Jorge GutierrezJorge GutiérrezJorge Gutiérrez Espinosa is a former boxer from Cuba. He won the Middleweight Gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Gutiérrez's Olympic results were:*Defeated Somchai Chimlum 20-11...
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Following the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Diaconu turned professional as a light heavyweight
Light heavyweight
In boxing, the light heavyweight is a weight division above 168 pounds [12 Stone or 76.204 kilograms] and up to 175 pounds [12.5 stone or 79.38 kilograms]), falling between super middleweight and cruiserweight...
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