Elena Oprea

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Elena Oprea (born October 5, 1953 ) is a former Romanian rower .

Athletic career

Elena Oprea won her first international medal at the European Championships in 1971 when she won the bronze medal behind the boats from the Soviet Union and the GDR with the Romanian eighth . In the following year, at the European Championships in 1972, the Soviet eighth won ahead of the Romanians and the eighth from the GDR. At the 1975 World Championships , the GDR eighth won in front of the boat from the United States, behind which Oprea won the bronze medal with the Romanian eighth.

At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, competitions in women's rowing were on the program for the first time. Oprea came in two boat classes: the four with coxswain Elena Oprea, occupied Florica Petcu , Filigonia Tol , Aurelia Marinescu and tax wife Aneta Matei in advance to second place behind the boat from the GDR and in the repechage second place behind the Dutch girls. In the final, the boat from the GDR won ahead of the Bulgarians and the boat from the Soviet Union. The Romanians finished fourth in front of the Dutch women, 1.79 seconds behind the Soviet four. All five Romanians entered the eighth final three hours after the four-man final and finished sixth there.

In 1977, the Romanian eighth finished fourth at the World Championships, 0.19 seconds behind the third-placed Canadians. In 1978 Oprea switched to the four-man team with a helmsman. At the 1978 World Championships Elena Oprea, Florica Dospinescu-Petcu , Florica Silaghi , Georgeta Militaru-Maşca and helmsman Aneta Matei won the bronze medal behind the boats from the GDR and from the United States. At the 1979 World Championships , Elena Oprea and Florica Silaghi competed in two without a helmsman . The two won the silver medal behind Ute Steindorf and Corneliaügel from the GDR. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Oprea appeared in twos with Florica Dospinescu, who had participated in 1976 as Florica Petcu. The two finished fourth, almost three seconds behind the third-placed Bulgarians.

Differentiation from Elena Horvat

According to the Olympic database SportsReference, Elena Oprea was called Elena Horvat after 1980 and was born in 1958. According to the database of the World Rowing Federation FISA , Oprea's career began, as shown above, 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. ↑ Volker Kluge : The Chronicle III. P. 562f (four) and 563f (eight)
  2. ↑ eight finals in 1977 at worldrowing.org
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge: The Chronicle III. P. 778
  4. ↑ Elena Oprea in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on May 30, 2020.
  5. ↑ Elena Oprea-Horvath. In: www.worldrowing.com. World Rowing Association, accessed on May 30, 2020 (English).
  6. ↑ Volker Kluge: The Chronicle III . P. 863 note 490
  7. ↑ Áros Károly: Erdélyi magyar sportolók az olimpiákon . P. 83
personal data
SURNAME Oprea, Elena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian rower
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1953