BOXER

Marijan Beneš

1951 - 2018

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Marijan Beneš (11 June 1951 – 4 September 2018) was a Yugoslavian boxer from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is considered one of the best boxers in Yugoslav history. After a brilliant amateur career, culminating in the gold medal in European Amateur Boxing Championships in Belgrade, he turned professional in 1977, and won the European Boxing Union title in the light welterweights in 1979. Next year he fought for the WBA World super welterweight title but lost to title holder Ayub Kalule on points. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marijan Beneš is the 79th most popular boxer (down from 61st in 2019), the 231st most popular biography from Serbia (down from 210th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Boxer.

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Among BOXERS

Among boxers, Marijan Beneš ranks 79 out of 496. Before him are Carlo Orlandi, Roger Michelot, Carmelo Robledo, Canelo Álvarez, Carmen Barth, and Francisco Rodríguez. After him are Rafael Iglesias, Víctor Avendaño, Edgar Basel, Nils Ramm, Ronald Rawson, and Bep van Klaveren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Marijan Beneš ranks 316. Before him are Harry Hamlin, Patrick Bergin, Bill Atkinson, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, Dean Barrow, and Mario Delpini. After him are Gerrie Knetemann, Charles Shyer, Mike Thompson, Ildikó Schwarczenberger, David Almond, and Ramón Puerta. Among people deceased in 2018, Marijan Beneš ranks 280. Before him are Robert Spaemann, Barkat Gourad Hamadou, Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Levko Lukianenko, Tomasz Stańko, and Mario Perniola. After him are Verne Troyer, Lucian Pintilie, Elias M. Stein, Erika Mahringer, Anne Treisman, and Andrei Bitov.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Marijan Beneš ranks 231 out of 661. Before him are Darko Kovačević (1973), Jovan Rajić (1726), Sefer Halilović (1952), Neda Arnerić (1953), Dušan Marković (1906), and Tihomir Ognjanov (1927). After him are Szilárd Bogdánffy (1911), Predrag Bjelac (1962), Branislav Ivanović (1984), Dušan Petković (1974), Milorad Milutinović (1935), and Aleksandar Kolarov (1985).

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Among BOXERS In Serbia

Among boxers born in Serbia, Marijan Beneš ranks 1. After him are Marco Huck (1984).

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