Octavian Guţu

Octavian Guţu
Personal information
Nationality	Moldova / Romania
Born	27 June 1982 (1982-06-27) (age 29) Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, USSR
Height	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Sport
Sport	Swimming

Octavian Guţu (born June 27, 1982 in Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union)^[1] is an Olympic swimmer from Moldova who swam for his native county at the 2004 Olympics. He has also swum internationally for Romania.

His dual swimming nationality caused problems for him in 2008, when the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruled that he could not represent Moldova at the 2008 Summer Olympics having swum for Romania at the 2007 World Championships.^[2]^[3]

References

^ Guţu's entry from www.sports-reference.com; retrieved 2009-06-30.
^ Decision from: CAS case 2008-006: Moldova National Olympic Committee vs. the International Olympic Committee. Issued by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on 2008-08-09; retrieved 2009-06-30.
^ Court of Arbitration for Sport Rules Against Octavian Gutu. From Swimming World Magazine online; published 2008-08-09; retrieved 2009-06-30.

Persondata
Name	Gutu, Octavian
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Date of birth	June 27, 1982
Place of birth	Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, USSR
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