01 Starting advantages
6/24 starting-position score
Strongest documented signals: Elite institution pipeline, Frontier geography, Dedicated mentor / coach.
Describes the starting position, not what the person later made of it.
Cohort percentile: 25
Marijan Beneš
Athletes · Boxing · milestone at age 22 ·T3 Domain-recognized
Milestone (age 22)
Won the European Amateur Boxing Championship gold medal in the light welterweight category at Belgrade in 1973 at age 22, and was named Best Athlete of Yugoslavia that year.
Beneš started boxing at age 10 at Sloboda Tuzla, allegedly defeating an 18-year-old in his first ring appearance. At 16 he transferred to BK Slavija in Banja Luka, where he spent his entire amateur career. He won nine Bosnia titles and four Yugoslav championships before claiming the European amateur title in 1973.
Starting point
Born in Belgrade to a Croat music teacher father and Serb mother; grew up in Tuzla in a modest Yugoslav family with four siblings who all competed in boxing.
Current position (2018 · deceased)
Died on 4 September 2018 at age 67 in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina; final role: retired boxer, later named best Bosnian boxer of the 20th century in 2020.
How this path compounded
02 Built or converted leverage
12/25 multiplying-capacity score
Strongest observed levers:Domain proximity, Started serious reps before 20, Prior reps.
Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
Cohort percentile: 58
03 Compounding trajectory
8 documented steps
The timeline below shows the sequence of work and transitions around the selected early milestone. It is evidence of a path, not proof that every step was necessary.
Milestone at age 22
04 Observed career standing
T3 · Domain-recognized
Notable and widely recognized within the domain. The tier summarizes documented career recognition through the data cutoff—not Marijan Beneš's worth or future potential.
Question four · where did the leverage come from?
Marijan Beneš's leverage provenance
Each non-zero lever gets a best-supported origin, evidence signals, and confidence. Unresolved is the honest default when the biography cannot distinguish self-built, advantage-enabled, earned, external, or mixed.
Started serious reps before 201/1
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (1/2)
Domain proximity2/2
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Direct domain exposure (1/2)Frontier geography (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (1/2)
Prior reps2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (1/2)
Scarce skill depth2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (1/2)
Concentration intensity2/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Dedicated mentor / coach (1/2)
Complementary team1/2
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Exceptional peer / cofounder (1/2)Elite institution pipeline (1/2)
Elite ecosystem network1/3
Advantage-enabledmedium confidence
One or more documented starting advantages plausibly enabled this lever.
Elite institution pipeline (1/2)Frontier geography (1/2)Exceptional peer / cofounder (1/2)
Structural wave / timing1/3
Externalmedium confidence
A structural wave is external to the person, even when their position improved access to it.
Frontier geography (1/2)
This is a bounded inference from the current annotations—not a claim about private effort, merit, or the percentage of Marijan Beneš's outcome attributable to any origin.
Structural luck, Encounter luck, Event luck, Outcome variance can change every arrow in the path. This successful-only dataset cannot observe the near-identical paths that did not break through, so luck stays visible and unscored.
Within Athletes, Marijan Beneš's starting-advantage total is at the 25th percentile. Separately, their built or converted leverage total is at the 58th percentile. Other T3 profiles average 7.0 / 24 starting advantage and 11.7 / 25 leverage. Similar scores appear in other tiers, so these figures describe positioning—not a cause.
Trajectory
- 1961 · age 10Began boxing at Sloboda TuzlaReportedly defeating an 18-year-old in his first ring appearance.
- 1967 · age 16Transferred to BK Slavija Banja LukaWhere he would remain for his entire amateur career.
- 1973 · age 22Won the European Amateur Boxing Championship gold medal in light welterweightBelgrade and was named Best Athlete of Yugoslavia.
- 1976 · age 25Competed at the Montreal Olympics but lostThe second round.
- 1977 · age 26Turned professional and began fightingThe European circuit.
- 1979 · age 28Won the EBU European super-welterweight title by knocking out Gilbert Cohen.
- 1980 · age 29Challenged for the WBA world super-welterweight title but lost toAyub Kalule on points.
- 1983 · age 32Retired from boxing due to a severe eye injury.
Primary leverage engine
Early specialization
Early specialization / prior reps
Secondary engine
Physical talent
Built/converted leverage
12 / 25
evidence: Medium
Built or converted leverage
Multiplying capacity documented later in the path. Measures what was present, not whether it was inherited, earned, self-built, external, or mixed.
Starting-advantage scores (0–2 each)
Access or conditions documented near the beginning of the path. Zero means "no clear evidence in reviewed sources," not "advantage was absent."
Family context
Born to a Croat father Josip, a music teacher, and Serb mother Marija. Grew up in Tuzla with three brothers and one sister; the Beneš brothers were known as athletes competing for Sloboda Tuzla.
Parent / family domain
Father was a music teacher, not directly related to boxing. However, the family environment supported competitive athletics, with all four Beneš brothers competing in boxing for Sloboda Tuzla.
Archetype & tags
Self-created domain repetitionearly boxing start at 10amateur club systemYugoslav boxing pipelinesibling athletes
Evidence summary
Beneš began boxing at age 10 at Sloboda Tuzla and transferred to BK Slavija Banja Luka at 16, where he developed through the Yugoslav amateur boxing system. He accumulated extensive reps with nine Bosnia titles and four Yugoslav championships before winning the European Amateur Championship in 1973 at age 22. His father was a music teacher and the family supported athletic competition among the four Beneš brothers. Coaches Bego Huseljić and Miloš Todorović provided early guidance.
advantage confidence: Medium · source count: 4 · audit: not_independently_audited · status: subagent_researched_beta
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