Romania at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Romania at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  ROU
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At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Competitors
Medals Gold
3		 Silver
6		 Bronze
7		 Total
16
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Romania competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

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[edit] Medals

Romania finished in 13th position in the final medal rankings, with three gold medals and 16 medals overall.

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

  • Gheorghe Berceanu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Flyweight
  • Nicolae Martinescu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Atanase Sciotnic, Roman Vartolomeu, Aurel Vernescu, and Mihai Zafiu — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000m Kayak Fours
  • Serghei Covaliov and Ivan Patzaichin — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000m Canadian Pairs
  • Dan Iuga — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol

[edit] Image:Med_3.png Bronze

  • Viorica Dumitru and Maria Nichiforov — Canoeing, Women's K2 500m Kayak Pairs
  • Ileana Gyulai-Drimba, Ana Pascu-Ene-Dersidan, Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic and Olga Szabo-Orban — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition
  • Nicolae Rotaru — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, prone
  • Stefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura and Ladislau Lovrenschi — Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs
  • Victor Dolipschi — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight
  • Vasile Iorga — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Men's 800 metres

  • Gheorghe Ghipu
  • Heat — 1:50.1 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1500 metres

  • Petre Lupan
  • Heat — 3:44.8 (→ did not advance)

Men's High Jump

  • Serban Ioan
  • Qualifying Round — 2.15m
  • Final — 2.10m (→ 16th place)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48kg)

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

  • Ion Györfi
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Lost to Peter Tiepold (GDR), 1:4

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

[edit] Cycling

Men's Individual Road Race

  • Teodor Vasile — 60th place

[edit] Diving

Men's 3m Springboard:

  • Ion Ganea — 325.17 points (→ 21st place)

Men's 10m Platform:

  • Ion Ganea — 265.83 points (→ 25th place)

Women's 3m Springboard:

  • Sorana Prelipceanu — 242.61 points (→ 21st place)
  • Melania Decuseara — 232.02 points (→ 27th place)

Women's 10m Platform:

  • Melania Decuseara — 182.82 points (→ 16th place)

[edit] Handball

Romania's first round opponents in the second Olympic handball tournament included the West German team as well as Norway and Spain. Romania beat all three, concluding with a 13-11 win over the Germans, to take first place in the group and advance to the second round. There, the team defeated Hungary but was defeated by eventual gold medallist Yugoslavia to put Romania in second place in the group and relegate the team to the bronze medal game. They won the medal, defeating the East Germans 19-16.

Men's Team Competition:

  • Romania - Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal (5-1-0)

[edit] Modern Pentathlon

Men's Individual Competition:

  • Dumitru Spirlea - 4754 pts (→ 23rd place)
  • Marian Cosmescu - 4890 (→ 38th place)
  • Albert Covacs - 4381 points (→ 48th place)

Men's Team Competition:

  • Spirlea, Cosmescu, and Covacs - 13655 points (→ 12th place)

[edit] Rowing

Men's Coxed Pairs

  • Stefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura and Ladislau Lovrenschi
  • Heat — 7:47.98
  • Repechage — 8:08.34
  • Semi Finals — 8:10.89
  • Final — 7:21.36 (→ Image:Med_3.png Bronze Medal)

[edit] Swimming

Men's 100m Freestyle

  • Marian Slavic
  • Heat — 55.35s (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

  • Marian Slavic
  • Heat — 2:00.23 (→ did not advance)

[edit] Water polo

[edit] Men's Team Competition

  • Preliminary Round (Group A)
  • Lost to United States (3-4)
  • Lost to Yugoslavia (7-8)
  • Lost to Cuba (3-4)
  • Defeated Canada (16-4)
  • Defeated Mexico (9-6)
  • Final Round (Group II)
  • Defeated Spain (7-4)
  • Defeated Bulgaria (4-3)
  • Drew with the Netherlands (5-5)
  • Defeated Australia (5-3) → 8th place
  • Team Roster
  • Iosif Culiniak
  • Corneliu Fratila
  • Serban Huber
  • Radu Lazar
  • Bogdan Mihailescu
  • Gruia Novae
  • Dinu Popescu
  • Viorel Rus
  • Claudiu Rusu
  • Cornel Rusu
  • Gheorghe Zamfirescu