1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Romania)
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Romania took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich with a delegation of 159 athletes. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was for the third time in a row the canoeist Aurel Vernescu . The most successful athlete was the canoeist Ivan Patzaichin , who won a gold and a silver medal.
Participants by sport
Boxing
- Ion Alexe , silver
- Marian Culineac
- Calistrat Cuțov
- Constantin Gruiescu
- Ion Györffi
- Marian Lazar
- Alec Nastac
- Gabriel Pometcu
- Alexandru Turei
- Antoniu Vasile
- Victor Zilberman
fencing
- Ana Pascu , bronze
- Ileana Gyulai , bronze
- Olga Szabó-Orbán , bronze
- Ecaterina steel , bronze
- Costică Bărăgan
- Iosif Budahazi
- Gheorghe Culcea
- Constantin Duțu
- Iuliu Falb
- Ștefan Haukler
- Nicolae Iorgu
- Dan Irimiciuc
- Alexandru Istrate
- Tănase Mureșanu
- Constantin Nicolae
- Anton Pongratz
- Aurel Ștefan
- Mihai Țiu
- Octavian Vintilă
Weightlifting
Handball
- Ștefan Birtalan , bronze
- Adrian Cosma , bronze
- Alexandru Dincă , bronze
- Cristian Gațu , bronze
- Gheorghe Gruia , bronze
- Roland Gunesch , bronze
- Gabriel Kicsid , bronze
- Ghiță Licu , bronze
- Marin Dan , bronze
- Cornel Penu , bronze
- Valentin Samungi , bronze
- Simon Schobel , bronze
- Werner Stöckl , bronze
- Constantin Tudosie , bronze
- Radu Voina , bronze
canoe
- Ivan Patzaichin , gold , silver
- Serghei Covaliov , silver
- Atanasia Sciotnic , silver
- Roman Vartolomeu , silver
- Aurel Vernescu , silver
- Mihai Zafiu , silver
- Viorica Dumitru , bronze
- Maria Nichiforov , bronze
- Costel Coșniță
- Ion Dragulschi
- Vasile Simiocenco
athletics
- Valeria Bufanu , silver
- Argentina Menis , silver
- Marion Becker
- Gheorghe Cefan
- Valentina Cioltan
- Carol Corbu
- Radu Gavrilaş
- Gheorghe Ghipu
- Șerban Ioan
- Carmen Ionescu
- Petre Lupan
- Lia Manoliu
- Cornelia Popescu
- Ileana Silai
- Elena Vintilă
- Viorica Viscopoleanu
- Roxana Vulescu
- Eva Zörgő
Modern pentathlon
Cycling
Wrestling
- Gheorghe Berceanu , gold
- Nicolae Martinescu , gold
- Victor Dolipschi , bronze
- Vasile Iorga , bronze
- Ludovic Ambruș
- Ion Arapu
- Ion Baciu
- Petre Ciarnau
- Petre Coman
- Nicolae Dumitru
- Ion Gabor
- Ion Marton
- Nicolae Neguț
- Enache Panait
- Ion Păun
- Petre Poalelungi
- Simion Popescu
- Ştefan Stîngu
- Gheorghe Stoiciu
- Marcel Vlad
rowing
- Petre Ceapura , bronze
- Ladislau Lovrenschi , bronze
- Ștefan Tudor
- Adalbert Agh
- Dumitru Grumezescu
- Mihai N Bäumencu
- Ilie Oanță
- Francisc cardboard
- Emeric Tușa
shoot
- Dan Iuga , silver
- Nicolae Rotaru , bronze
- Ilie Codreanu
- Lucian Cojocaru
- Ion Dumitrescu
- Gheorghe Florescu
- Gleb pintilies
- Petre Șandor
- Eugene Satala
- Ion Tripșa
swim
do gymnastics
- Elena Ceampelea
- Mircea Gheorghiu
- Alina Goreac
- Dan Grecu
- Anca Grigoraș
- Paula Ioan
- Petre Mihăiuc
- Nicolae Oprescu
- Gheorghe Păunescu
- Marcela Păunescu
- Constantin Petrescu
- Elisabeta Turcu
volleyball
- Viorel Bălaş
- Gyula Bartha
- Laurențiu Dumănoiu
- Romeo Enescu
- Cristian Ion
- Stelian Moculescu
- Cornel Oros
- William Schreiber
- Marian Stamate
- Mircea Tutovan-Codoi
- Gabriel Udişteanu
Water polo
- Iosif Culineac
- Cornel Frățilă
- Șerban Huber
- Radu Lazar
- Bogdan Mihăilescu
- Gruia Novac
- Dinu Popescu
- Viorel Rus
- Claudiu Rusu
- Cornel Rusu
- Gheorghe Zamfirescu
Diving
Web links
- Romanian Olympic team 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Romanian Olympic Team 1972 at COSR (Romanian)