Gheorghe Plagino
Gheorghe Alexandru Plagino (born November 16, 1876 in Dumbrăveni (Vrancea) , † May 3, 1949 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian sports shooter .
Plagino was the son of a large landowner who enabled him to live in Paris , where he married a daughter of the Romanian ambassador. Plagino was the only Romanian to take part in the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, where he came 13th in clay pigeon shooting . Since there was no participant from Romania at the first Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, Plagino is the first Romanian Olympic athlete ever. Only from 1924 onwards there were also Romanian championships in shooting. In 1927 and 1928 Plagino became Romanian champion.
In 1908, Plagino became the second Romanian member of the IOC . From 1923 to 1940 he was Vice President of the National Olympic Committee and from 1933 to 1940 President of the Union of Romanian Sports Federations.
Web links
- Gheorghe Plagino in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
- Article at digisport.ro
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| SURNAME | Plagino, Gheorghe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plagino, Gheorghe Alexandru |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian marksman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dumbrăveni (Vrancea) , Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 1949 |
| Place of death | Bucharest , Romania |