He participated in men's freestyle 74 kg at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

He lost the bronze medal fight against Murad Gaidarov of Belorussia.

However, after a positive doping test Soslan Tigiev of Uzbekistan was in November 2016 stripped of the silver medal.

Ștefan Gheorghiță, therefore, moved up to a bronze medal position.

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