Olympic history of Romania

ROME

The Olympic Romanian History begins with the first participation in 1900 at the Summer Olympics .

history

However, there was no Romanian team at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, but only one participant, Gheorghe Plagino , who lived in Paris. Romania did not take part in the subsequent games. In 1914 the National Olympic Committee (NOK), the Comitetul Olimpic Român , was founded. The 1916 Olympic Games were canceled because of the First World War, and Romania did not yet take part in the first games after the war in Antwerp in 1920.

Romania's first participation under the sovereignty of the NOK was at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. 1928 in St. Moritz was the first participation in the winter games, at that time with two bobsleigh teams. Since then, Romania has participated in all games except the 1932 and 1948 Summer Games and the 1960 Winter Games . Romania also took part in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, despite the boycott of most of the communist states in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

The first Olympic medal was won by the rugby team in 1924, which finished third in Paris. Four years later, women took part for the first time in Amsterdam. The first and to date only medal at the Winter Games was won by the Romanian two-man bobsleigh with bronze in Grenoble in 1968. The canoeist Aurel Vernescu in summer and the biathlete Éva Tófalvi in winter were three times each flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Standard bearer	Attendees	Men	Women	sports
1900 Paris		1	1		1
1924 Paris		35	35		4th
1928 Amsterdam		21st	19th	2	2
1936 Berlin	Serban Manciulescu	54	52	2	9
1952 Helsinki	Dumitru Paraschivescu	114	103	11	15th
1956 Melbourne	Iosif Sîrbu	50	39	11	11
1960 Rome	Alexandru Bizim	98	82	16	13
1964 Tokyo	Aurel Vernescu	138	108	30th	13
1968 Mexico City	Aurel Vernescu	82	66	16	9
1972 Munich	Aurel Vernescu	159	132	27	16
1976 Montreal	Nicolae Martinescu	157	103	54	11
1980 Moscow	Vasile Andrei	228	154	74	20th
1984 Los Angeles	Corneliu Ion	124	71	53	13
1988 Seoul	Vasile Andrei	68	32	36	10
1992 Barcelona	Costel Grasu	173	105	76	26th
1996 Atlanta	Iulică Ruican	165	98	67	18th
2000 Sydney	Elisabeta Lipa	145	71	74	16
2004 Athens	Elisabeta Lipa	108	50	58	16
2008 Beijing	Valeria Beşe	101	40	61	16
2012 London	Horia Tecau	105	55	50	15th
2016 Rio de Janeiro	Cătălina Ponor	95	34	61	15th

Winter games

year	Standard bearer	Attendees	Men	Women	sports
1928 St. Moritz		10	10		1
1932 Lake Placid		4th	4th		1
1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen		15th	15th	1	5
1948 St. Moritz		7th	7th		1
1952 Oslo		16	16		3
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo		19th	13	6th	4th
1964 Innsbruck	Ion Panțuru	27	27		4th
1968 Grenoble	Beatrice Huştiu	30th	29	1	5
1972 Sapporo	Ion Panțuru	13	13		4th
1976 Innsbruck	Gheorghe Gârniță	32	32		4th
1980 Lake Placid	Gheorghe Lixandru	35	32	2	4th
1984 Sarajevo	Dorel Cristudor	19th	16	3	6th
1988 Calgary	Dorin Degan	11	5	6th	4th
1992 Albertville	Ioan Apostol	23	14th	9	8th
1994 Lillehammer	Ioan Apostol	23	13	10	7th
1998 Nagano	Mihaela Dascălu	16	12	4th	6th
2002 Salt Lake City	Éva Tófalvi	21st	11	10	8th
2006 Turin	Gheorghe Chiper	25th	16	9	8th
2010 Vancouver	Éva Tófalvi	28	14th	14th	9
2014 Sochi	Éva Tófalvi	22nd	15th	7th	8th
2018 Pyeongchang	Marius Ungureanu	28	19th	9	8th

Most successful participant

The most successful Olympic participant is the gymnast Nadia Comăneci . She also became the first female gymnast in history to receive the perfect grade of 10.0 at the 1976 Olympic Games.

athlete	sport	participation	gold	silver	bronze	total
Nadia Comăneci	do gymnastics	1976-1980	5	3	1	9
Elisabeta Lipa	rowing	1984-2004	5	2	1	8th
Georgeta Damian	rowing	2000-2008	5	0	1	6th
Ivan Patzaichin	canoe	1968-1984	4th	3	0	7th
Doina Ignat	rowing	1992-2008	4th	1	1	6th
Ecaterina Szabó	do gymnastics	1984	4th	1	0	5
Viorica Susanu	rowing	2000-2008	4th	0	1	5
Daniela Silivaș	do gymnastics	1988	3	2	1	6th
Simona Amânar	do gymnastics	1996-2000	3	1	3	7th
Constanța Burcică	rowing	1992-2008	3	1	1	5
Elena Georgescu	rowing	1992-2008	3	1	1	5
Cătălina Ponor	do gymnastics	2004-2016	3	1	1	5
Liliana Gafencu	rowing	1996-2004	3	0	0	3

For a list of all medal winners and the medal table see List of Olympic medal winners from Romania .

Web links

• Romania in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Romanian Olympic History at COSR (Romanian)