Ivan Patzaichin

Ivan Patzaichin
Ivan Patzaichin with the 1990 Olympic Order
nation	Romania
date of birth	November 26, 1949
place of birth	Mila 23 ,  Romania
size	176 cm
weight	79 kg
date of death	September 5, 2021
Place of death	Bucharest ,  Romania
Career
discipline	Canoe racing
Boat class	Canadians (C1, C2)
society	Dinamo Bucharest
Trainer	Radu Huțan , Simion Ismailciuc
Medal table
Olympic games 4 × 3 × 0 × World championships 9 × 4 × 9 ×
Olympic games gold 1968 Mexico City C2 1000 m gold 1972 Munich C1 1000 m silver 1972 Munich C2 1000 m gold 1980 Moscow C2 1000 m silver 1980 Moscow C2 500 m gold 1984 Los Angeles C2 1000 m silver 1984 Los Angeles C2 500 m World championships gold 1970 Copenhagen C2 1000 m bronze 1971 Belgrade C1 500 m silver 1971 Belgrade C2 1000 m bronze 1973 Tampere C1 500 m gold 1973 Tampere C1 1000 m gold 1973 Tampere C2 1000 m bronze 1974 Mexico City C1 500 m bronze 1974 Mexico City C1 1000 m bronze 1974 Mexico City C1 10,000 m silver 1975 Belgrade C1 1000 m gold 1977 Sofia C1 1000 m bronze 1977 Sofia C1 10,000 m bronze 1978 Belgrade C1 1000 m gold 1978 Belgrade C1 10,000 m bronze 1979 Duisburg C1 1000 m bronze 1979 Duisburg C1 10,000 m gold 1979 Duisburg C2 500 m gold 1981 Nottingham C2 1000 m silver 1981 Nottingham C2 10,000 m gold 1982 Belgrade C2 10,000 m gold 1983 Tampere C2 1000 m silver 1983 Tampere C2 10,000 m

Ivan Patzaichin [ pat͡sai̯cin ] (born November 26, 1949 in Mila 23 , Tulcea district , † September 5, 2021 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian canoeist , trainer and functionary . He took part in the Olympic Games five times from 1968 to 1984. With four gold medals and three silver medals at the Olympic Games, Patzaichin is the most successful male athlete in Romania by medals. In front of him are only the gymnast Nadia Comăneci and the rower Elisabeta Lipă , each with five gold medals.

Career

Ivan Patzaichin

Ivan Patzaichin ( Russian Иван Пацайкин , Ivan Pazaikin) came from a Lipovans family, a Russian-speaking, Old Believers minority in Romania, especially in the region of Tulcea has a strong presence. Like most Romanian canoeists of his generation, Patzaichin was trained by Radu Huțan .

At the Olympic Games in 1968 , eighteen-year-old Ivan Patzaichin was able to take seventh place in the single canoe over 1000 meters. Together with Serghei Covaliov , who is five years his senior , he won gold in the two-man canoe . In 1970 the two became world champions.

At the 1972 Olympic Games , Patzaichin won the single-canoe competition by over three seconds. Two hours later in the two-man final there was a photo finish decision, after which he and Covaliov were three hundredths of a second behind the winning boat from the Soviet Union. In 1973 Patzaichin became world champion in the single on the 1000 meter course.

At the 1976 Olympic Games , medals in the Canadier over 500 meters and over 1000 meters were awarded for the first time. Patzaichin competed in both single competitions. He finished seventh over 500 meters and fifth over 1000 meters.

In 1977 Patzaichin became world champion in the single over 1000 meters, a year later he won the title over 10,000 meters. In 1979 he became world champion over 500 meters with Petre Capusta . Together with Capusta, Patzaichin won silver over 500 meters at the 1980 Olympic Games . The next day he won gold over 1000 meters with Toma Simionov .

Patzaichin and Simionov became world champions over 1000 meters in 1981 and 1983 and in 1982 they won the title over 10,000 meters together. At the Olympic Games in 1984 , the two won silver over 500 meters and gold over 1000 meters.

Subsequently, Patzaichin ended his active career and became a coach. From 2000 to 2009 he was in charge of the Romanian national canoe racing team and was also Vice President of the Romanian Canoe Association until 2009. In the elections on August 6, 2009, Patzaichin was voted out of office as vice-president, and on September 11, 2009 he also resigned as national coach because he felt abandoned by the association's management.

Ivan Patzaichin was married and had one daughter.

He was diagnosed with lung cancer in spring 2021 ; an illness from which he died in September of the same year at the age of 71.

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 .
• Karl Adolf Scherer: Chronicle Handbook Sport History in Numbers , Gütersloh 1997, ISBN 3-577-14518-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ BREAKING NEWS A murit Ivan Patzaichin! Veste tragică pentru sportul românesc
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Alegerile Biroului Federal 2009 ( Memento from August 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 22, 2011 (Romanian)
4. ↑ Patzaichin și-a dat demisia , accessed on January 22, 2011 (Romanian)

Web links

Commons : Ivan Patzaichin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ivan Patzaichin in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Ivan Patzaichin at the Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (Romanian)