Ion Drîmbă
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| Full name | Ionel Alexandru Drîmbă | |||||||||||||||||||||
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18 March 1942 Timișoara, Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Died |
2006 Brazil | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ion Drîmbă (March 18, 1942 – 2006, Brazil) was a Romanian fencer and Olympic champion in the foil competition.[1]
Biography
Drîmbă was born in 1942 in Timișoara. He began fencing at age 8 at a local club and quickly showed talent: he competed with seniors from the age of 13 both in foil and sabre, joined the national foil team at age 16, and won the national championship at age 18.[2] The same year, he won a silver medal in foil and reached the semi-finals in sabre at the Junior European Championships in Luxembourg.[2] He then transferred to CSA Steaua București.[2] He earned a silver medal at the Junior World Championships in 1963.
Drîmbă became World champion with Romania in 1967 and won the first gold medal of Romanian fencing at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.[3]
References
- ↑ "Ion Drîmbă Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ionuț Tătaru (2 June 2012). "Ionel Drâmbă, primul campion olimpic al scrimei românești". Antena 3 (in Romanian).
- ↑ "1968 Summer Olympics – Mexico City, Mexico – Fencing" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on June 19, 2008)
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