Luka Plantić (born 29 October 1996) is a Croatian boxer currently in the light heavyweight (-81 kg) discipline.
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Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Croatian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1996-10-29) 29 October 1996 (age 25) Zagreb, Croatia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In 2014, Plantić was Croatian youth middleweight champion,[1] won the gold medal at the European Youth Championships in Zagreb,[2] the silver medal at the Youth World Boxing Championships in Sofia[3] and the bronze medal at the Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing.[4]
In the adult category, Plantić was Croatian middleweight champion in 2015, 2016 and 2017 and Croatian light heavyweight champion in 2020 and 2021.[5] in April 2016, he was eliminated in the preliminary round of the European Olympic qualification in Samsun against Arjon Kajoshi[6] and lost in the quarter-finals of the U22 European Championships in Brăila against Viktor Daschkewitsch in March 2017.[7] In 2019, he won the Balkan Championships in Antalya.[8]
In the European Olympic qualification in London in March 2020, Plantić defeated Umar Jambekov before the tournament was interrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9] In the continuation of the qualification in Paris in June 2021, he defeated Gor Nersesyan and Emmet Brennan, before he was narrowly defeated by Benjamin Whittaker 2-3 in the semifinals and thus qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[10]