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Vasile Tiță

1928 - 2013

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Vasile Tiţă (21 February 1928 – 24 June 2013) was a Romanian amateur middleweight boxer. He won a silver medal at his first major international tournament, the 1952 Olympics, losing in the final to Floyd Patterson. After that he competed at the 1953, 1955 and 1957 European championships with the best result of reaching the quarterfinals in 1955. Domestically he won seven consecutive national titles in 1951–57, six in the 71 kg and one in the 75 kg division. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vasile Tiță is the 1,260th most popular athlete (up from 1,900th in 2019), the 418th most popular biography from Romania (up from 515th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Romanian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Vasile Tiță ranks 1,260 out of 6,025. Before him are Joseph Perotaux, Commodore Cochran, Heinrich Peters, Per Berlin, Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, and Noureddine Morceli. After him are Edward Moore, Charles Kieffer, Eirik Kvalfoss, Daphne Hasenjäger, Horst Meyer, and Nils Täpp.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Vasile Tiță ranks 451. Before him are Vic Damone, Serge Blusson, Ruth Brown, Kiyonori Kikutake, Marceline Loridan-Ivens, and Aleksandr Ivanov. After him are Angélica Gorodischer, Surya Bahadur Thapa, Tom Lehrer, Kenny Drew, Hebe de Bonafini, and Bano Qudsia. Among people deceased in 2013, Vasile Tiță ranks 367. Before him are Helen Thomas, Raimondo D'Inzeo, Aleksandar Kozlina, Medardo Joseph Mazombwe, John Eisenhower, and Lidiya Vertinskaya. After him are Phil Ramone, Eddi Arent, Denys de La Patellière, David Landes, Jiah Khan, and Harold Agnew.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Vasile Tiță ranks 418 out of 844. Before him are Richard Wagner (1952), Ștefania Mărăcineanu (1882), Florin Gheorghiu (1944), George Lusztig (1946), Gabi Balint (1963), and Samuel Zauber (1901). After him are Laura Codruța Kövesi (1973), László Németh (1901), Silviu Lung (1956), Gheorghe Mironescu (1874), Cătălin Predoiu (1968), and Ernst Lörtscher (1913).

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Among ATHLETES In Romania

Among athletes born in Romania, Vasile Tiță ranks 19. Before him are Valeriu Bularca (1931), Atanase Sciotnic (1942), Valeria Bufanu (1946), Nicolae Neagoe (1941), Ion Drîmbă (1942), and Vasile Dîba (1954). After him are Leon Rotman (1934), Constantin Alexandru (1953), Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (1962), Paula Ivan (1963), Sofia Corban (1956), and Ghiță Licu (1945).

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