Costel Coşniţă

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
World Championships
Gold 1971 Belgrade K-4 10000 m
Silver 1975 Belgrade K-4 10000 m
Bronze 1970 Copenhagen K-2 10000 m
Bronze 1971 Belgrade K-2 1000 m
Bronze 1973 Tampere K-4 10000 m

Costel Coşniţă (born April 16, 1943) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid 1970s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 10000 m: 1971), a silver (K-4 10000 m: 1975), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1970, K-4 10000 m: 1973.

Coşniţă also finished fifth in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.

References

1950: Sweden (Karl Andersson, Stig Andersson, Gösta Gustavsson, & Harry Johansson) * 1954: Sweden (Einar Pihl, Ebbe Frick, Ragnar Heurlin, & Stig Andersson) * 1958: West Germany (Michel Scheuer, Georg Lietz, Gustav Schmidt, & Theodor Kleine) * 1963: Hungary (István Timár, László Fábián, Otto Koltai, & László Ürögi) * 1966: Soviet Union (Nikolai Chuzhikov, Anatoli Grishin, Volodymyr Morozov, & Vyacheslav Yonov) * 1970: Norway (Egil Søby, Steinar Amundsen, Tore Berger, & Jan Johansen) * 1971: Romania (Cuprian Macarencu, Costel Coşniţă, Vasilie Simiocenco, & Atanase Sciotnic) * 1973: Hungary (Csaba Giczi, Tibor Nagy, Csongor Vargha, & Géza Kralován) * 1974: Soviet Union (Leonid Derevyanko, Nikolai Gorbachev, Pytor Zhurga, & Anatoliy Zharikin) * 1975: Norway (Einar Rasmussen, Steinar Amundsen, Andreas Orheim, & Olaf Søyland) * 1977: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Volodymyr Morozov, Sergey Nikolskiy, & Aleksandr Avdeyev) * 1978: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Sergey Nikolskiy, Volodymyr Morozov, & Aleksandr Avdeyev) * 1979: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Shaparenko, Sergey Nikolskiy, Volodymyr Morozov, & Aleksandr Avdeyev) * 1981: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yermilov, Nikolay Baranov, Sergey Kolokolov, & Vasiliy Silenkov) * 1982: Soviet Union (Aleksandr Yermilov, Nikolay Baranov, Sergei Chukhray, & Vladimir Romanovsky) * 1983: Soviet Union (Nikolay Astapkovich, Aleksandr Avdeyev, Nikolay Baranov, & Aleksandr Yermilov) * 1985: Hungary (Zoltán Böjti, Tibor Helyi, Zoltán Kovács, & Kálmán Petrovics) * 1986: Soviet Union (Nikolay Oselez, Grigoriy Medvedyev, Sergey Kislev, & Aleksandr Akunichikov) * 1987: Norway (Harald Amundsen, Arne Sletsjøe, Morten Ivarsen, & Arne Johan Almeland) * 1989: Soviet Union (Vladimir Bobrezhov, Aleksandr Myzgin, Sergey Superata, & Arturas Veta) * 1990: Soviet Union (Dmitriy Bankovskiy, Vladimir Bobrezhov, Aleksandr Myzgin, & Arturas Veta) * 1991: Germany (Detlef Hofmann, Oliver Kegel, Thomas Reineck, & André Wohllebe) * 1993: Germany (Thomas Reineck, Oliver Kegel, André Wohllebe, & Mario Von Appen)