Vasile Usturoi

Vasile Usturoi
Born	(1997-04-03) 3 April 1997 (age 27) Bucharest, Romania
Statistics
Weight(s)	Featherweight
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Stance	Southpaw
Medal record Men's amateur boxing Representing  Belgium European Games 2023 Kraków-Małopolska Featherweight European Championships 2022 Yerevan Featherweight

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]

References

1. "Vasile Usturoi". BoxRec. Retrieved June 7, 2022.
2. "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. "JO 2024: la déception est tout aussi grande pour Hubert Fierens, l'entraîneur du boxeur belge Vasile Usturoi" [Olympic Games 2024: the disappointment is just as great for Hubert Fierens, the coach of Belgian boxer Vasile Usturoi]. www.worldboxing.org. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
4. "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 (in Romanian). June 7, 2022.

External links

• Vasile Usturoi at BoxRec (registration required)
• Vasile Usturoi at Olympics.com
• Vasile Usturoi at Team Belgium (in Dutch)