Ion Dumitrescu (marksman)

Ion Dumitrescu medal table
Ion Dumitrescu (1960)
Sport shooting
Romania
Olympic games
gold	Rome 1960	Trap
World championships
bronze	Moscow 1958	Skeet (M)
bronze	Oslo 1961	Trap
silver	Wiesbaden 1966	Trap (M)

Ion Dumitrescu (born July 18, 1925 in Bucharest , † 1999 ) was a Romanian sports shooter .

Career

Ion Dumitrescu took part in four Olympic Games in the trap . In 1960 in Rome he achieved the best result of the competition with 192 points and was Olympic champion ahead of Galliano Rossini , who had scored 191 points, and Sergei Kalinin , who finished the competition with 190 points . At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 , he finished fifth, with 193 points, he missed another medal win by one point. Four years later he was eleventh in Mexico City , in 1972 he did not get past 30th place in Munich . At world championships he first won bronze with the team in Moscow in 1958 in the skeet . In Oslo Dumitrescu was runner-up with the Trap team in 1961 and secured bronze with her in 1966 in Wiesbaden .

After his active career he was, among other things, a trainer and functionary at the national shooting association.

Web links

Commons : Ion Dumitrescu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ion Dumitrescu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ion Dumitrescu at the Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (Romanian)