Mihai Zafiu

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
Silver 1972 Munich K-4 1000 m
Silver 1980 Moscow K-4 1000 m
World Championships
Gold 1974 Mexico City K-1 4 x 500 m
Silver 1970 Copenhagen K-1 4 x 500 m
Silver 1971 Belgrade K-1 4 x 500 m
Silver 1975 Belgrade K-1 4 x 500 m
Silver 1978 Belgrade K-4 1000 m
Bronze 1973 Tampere K-1 4 x 500 m

Mihai Zafiu (born June 9, 1949) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1972 and 1980.

Zafiu also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974), four silvers (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1970, 1971, 1975; K-4 1000 m: 1978), and a bronze (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1973).

References

1948: Sweden (Lars Glasser, Lars Helsvik, Lennart Klingström & Gert Fredriksson · 1950: Sweden (Lars Glasser, Ingemar Hedberg, Lennart Klingström & Gert Fredriksson) · 1954: Sweden (Lars Glasser, Carl-Ake Ljung, Bert Nilsson & Gert Fredriksson) · 1958: West Germany (Paul Lange, Meinrad Miltenberger, Helmut Herz & Fritz Briel) · 1963: Romania (Aurel Vernescu, Vasilie Nicoarǎ, Haralambie Ivanov & Anton Ivanescu) · 1966: Soviet Union (Georgiy Karyuchin, Yuriy Kabanov, Villi Baltins & Dmitry Matveyev) · 1970: Soviet Union (Nikolay Gogol, Anatoliy Tischenko, Anatoliy Kobrisev & Anatoliy Sedasov) · 1971: Hungary (Géza Csapó, István Szabó, Csaba Giczi & Mihály Hesz) · 1973: Soviet Union (Vitaliy Trukshin, Anatoliy Kobrisev, Sergey Nikolskiy & Oleg Zhegoyev) · 1974: Romania (Vasile Dîba, Ernst Pavel, Atanase Sciotnic & Mihai Zafiu) · 1975: Hungary (Iván Herczeg, Jószef Svidró, Zoltán Sztanity & Peter Várhelyi)