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Marijan Beneš (Serbian Cyrillic: Маријан Бенеш; born June 11 1951) is a former Yugoslavian boxer from Bosnia and Herzegovina still considered one of the best 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 welterweight in 1979. Beneš withdrew from the ring in 1983 after a severe eye injury.
