Elena Horvat

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Elena Horvat (left) and Rodica Arba in 1984

Elena Horvat , after marriage to Elena Florea , (born July 4, 1958 in Luizi-Călugăra , Bacau County ) is a former Romanian rower .

Sports career from 1981

Elena Horvat took third place behind the boats from the GDR and Canada at the 1981 World Championships together with Rodica Arba in a double without a helmsman . The following year, Arba and Horvat switched to the four-man without a helmsman and also won the bronze medal in this boat class at the 1982 World Championships . In 1983 , Arba and Horvat won the silver medal in a pair behind Marita Gasch and Silvia Fröhlich from the GDR.

The team from East Germany was due to the Olympic boycott in the 1984 Olympics won not raced Arba and Horvat with three and a half seconds ahead of the Canadians the gold medal. The following year, Rodica Arba and Elena Florea, now married, proved at the World Championships in Hazewinkel with a victory over the two-men from the USA and the GDR that they could win without a boycott.

Differentiation from Elena Oprea

According to the Olympic database Sports-Reference, Elena Horvat was called Elena Oprea before 1981 and took part in the 1976 and 1980 Olympic Games under this name . According to the database of the World Rowing Federation FISA , Oprea's career began with winning a medal as a rower - not as a helmsman - at the European Championships in 1971 . Elena Horvat would have been thirteen years old. In his standard work on the Olympic Games at the 1980 Games, Volker Kluge mentions that Elena Oprea, born in 1958, started as Elena Horvat in 1984. On the other hand, according to Áros Károlys book about Hungarian-born Olympic participants from all over the world, Elena Horvat was born in 1958 as Ilona Horváth. In Olympedia, the dates of Elena Oprea and Elena Horvat in 2020 are separated.

literature

  • Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
  • Áros Károly: Erdélyi magyar sportolók az olimpiákon . Szentendre 2002 ISBN 963-440770-6

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Elena Horvat in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
  2. ↑ Elena Horvat at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge: The Chronicle III . P. 863 note 490
  4. ↑ Áros Károly: Erdélyi magyar sportolók az olimpiákon . P. 83
personal data
SURNAME Horvat, Elena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Florea, Elena; Horvath, Ilona
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian rower
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Luizi-Călugăra , Bacau County