What is Marijan Beneš?
[[File:Benes.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Marijan Beneš in 2009]] '''Marijan Beneš''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|Маријан Бенеш}}; 11 June 1951 – 4 September 2018) was a [[SFR Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]]-[[Bosnia]]n [[Boxing|boxer]]. He was born in [[Belgrade]]. He was thought of as one of the best in [[former Yugoslavia|Yugoslav history]].<ref name=nacional>{{cite web|url=http://arhiva.nacional.hr/clanak/13746/boksacki-prvak-koji-se-u-svom-kaficu-tukao-15-puta-dnevno |title=Boksački prvak koji se u svom kafiću tukao 15 puta dnevno |publisher=[[Nacional (weekly)|Nacional]] |date=2 March 2004 |author=Davor Pašalić |language=hr |trans-title=A boxing champion who used to fight 15 times a day in his bar |access-date=9 December 2015 |archive-date=30 June 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/68oaXO3P3?url=http://www.nacional.hr/clanak/13746/boksacki-prvak-koji-se-u-svom-kaficu-tukao-15-puta-dnevno }}</ref> After an amateur career, he won 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 welterweight]] in 1979. Beneš retired from the ring in 1983, after a severe eye injury. Beneš died of complications from [[Alzheimer's disease]] in [[Banja Luka]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] on 4 September 2018, aged 67.<ref name=nacional/><ref>{{cite news |title=U Banjoj Luci umro legendarni boksač Marijan Beneš (67) |url=https://www.24sata.hr/sport/u-banjoj-luci-umro-legendarni-boksac-marijan-benes-67-588811 |access-date=4 September 2018 |agency=24 Sata |date=4 September 2018 |language=hr}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{sports-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Benes, Marijan}} [[Category:1951 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Bosnia and Herzegovina sportspeople]] [[Category:Yugoslavian boxers]]