1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Romania)

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3	6th	7th

Entry of the Romanian team into the Munich Olympic Stadium

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

• Ion Hortopan
• Victor Rusu

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

• Marian Cosmescu
• Adalbert Covaci
• Dumitru Spîrlea

Cycling

• Teodor Vasile

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

• Eugene Almer
• Anca Groza
• Marian Slavic

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

• Melania Decuseară
• Ion Ganea
• Sorana Prelipceanu

Web links

• Romanian Olympic team 1972 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Romanian Olympic Team 1972 at COSR (Romanian)