Vasile Usturoi Explained

Vasile Usturoi
Weight:Featherweight
Birth Date:1997 4, df=yes
Birth Place:Bucharest, Romania
Style:Southpaw

Vasile Usturoi (born 3 April 1997) is a Romanian-born Belgian amateur boxer who won a gold medal at the 2022 European Championships.[1] For the first time since 1951, Usturoi ensured that a European boxing title came into the hands of a Belgian. Usturoi earned an Olympic quota spot for Belgium for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France reaching the semi-finals at the 2023 European Games in Kraków, Poland.[2] At the Olympics Usturoi, hampered by having contracted the Corona virus just two weeks earlier, lost his first bout.[3]

Personal life

Born in Romania, Usturoi moved to Belgium when he was 12. He is a football fan and a supporter of team Steaua București. Usturoi means garlic in Romanian language.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Vasile Usturoi. BoxRec. June 7, 2022.
  2. Web site: 36 boxers from 17 countries qualify for Paris 2024 Olympic Games on busy day of quarter-final action at European Games 2023. www.worldboxing.org. June 29, 2023.
  3. Web site: JO 2024: la déception est tout aussi grande pour Hubert Fierens, l'entraîneur du boxeur belge Vasile Usturoi . www.worldboxing.org. Olympic Games 2024: the disappointment is just as great for Hubert Fierens, the coach of Belgian boxer Vasile Usturoi . 31 July 2024 . 5 November 2024 .
  4. Web site: VIDEO Echipa din Liga 1 care l-a cucerit pe Vasile Usturoi, românul care face senzație sub steagul Belgiei: "Am fost pe stadion. WOW!". Gazeta Sporturilor. June 7, 2022. ro.