Rudel Obreja (6 August 1965 – 12 March 2023) was a Romanian boxer and businessman.
He competed in the
men's welterweight event at the
1984 Summer Olympics
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.
Obreja also won four national senior titles, a bronze medal at the
1989 World Amateur Boxing Championships and a silver medal at the
European Amateur Boxing Championships
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. He was the president of the Romanian Boxing Federation between 2004 and 2012. In 2007, he was elected vice president of
AIBA
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, and was the chief technical officer for amateur boxing at the
2008 Summer Olympics
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in Beijing.
In 2018, Obreja was sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering, tax evasion and bribery. In 2022, he was released to undergo cancer treatment in a non-prison hospital. He died on 12 March 2023, at age 57.
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1965 births
2023 deaths
Romanian male boxers
Olympic boxers for Romania
Boxers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
AIBA World Boxing Championships medalists
Welterweight boxers
Sportspeople from Galați
20th-century Romanian sportsmen
Sportspeople convicted of crimes
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