# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marijan-benes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T00:21:34.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marijan-benes"
name: "Marijan Beneš"
slug: "marijan-benes"
description: "Marijan Beneš was a Yugoslavian boxer from Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is considered one of the best boxers in Yugoslav history. After a brilliant amateur career, culminating in 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 welterweights in 1979. Next year he fought for the WBA World super welterweight title but lost to title holder Ayub Kalule on points.\nBeneš withdrew from the ring in 1983, after a severe eye injury. In 2020 he was named as the best Bosnian boxer in 20th century."
tagline: "Yugoslav boxer (1951-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1951-06-11"
deathDate: "2018-09-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.32
  momentum:             15
  historical:           15.16537333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump