Vitaly Gruşac (born 11 September 1977) is a Moldovan Olympic medal boxer from Grimancauti village (a well-known Moldavian boxing centre[citation needed]). He competed in the Welterweight division (67 kilograms [148 lb]) at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Gruşac qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by taking second place at the 4th AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Vitalie Grușac
Medal record
Men’s Boxing
Representing Moldova
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Welterweight

Olympic 2000 results [1] edit

  • Round of 32: Saturday, September 16, 2000. Defeated Aregawi Tsegasellase (Ethiopia) walkover
  • Round of 16: Thursday, September 21, 2000. Defeated Sherzod Husanov (Uzbekistan) 13-7
  • Quarter-finals: Tuesday, September 26, 2000. Defeated Bülent Ulusoy (Turkey) 19-10
  • Semi-finals: Thursday, September 28, 2000. Lost to Sergey Dotsenko (Ukraine) 8-17

References edit

  1. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Boxing at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Welterweight". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2012.

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