1976 Summer Olympics / Participant (Romania)

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4th	9	14th

Nadia Comăneci received the top grade of 10.0 for the first time in gymnastics history

Romania participated in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a delegation of 157 athletes. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wrestler Nicolae Martinescu . The most successful athlete was the gymnast Nadia Comăneci , who won five medals.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Simion Cuțov , silver
• Mircea Simon , silver
• Costică Dafinoiu , bronze
• Alec Năstac , bronze
• Victor Zilberman , bronze
• Gheorghe Ciochină
• Remus Cosma
• Calistrat Cuțov
• Vasile Didea
• Constantin Gruiescu
• Faredin Ibrahim

fencing

• Dan Irimiciuc , bronze
• Corneliu Marin , bronze
• Marin Mustață , bronze
• Alexandru Nilca , bronze
• Ioan Pop , bronze
• Magdalena Bartoș
• Petrică Buricea
• Ana Pascu
• Ileana Jenei
• Nicolae Iorgu
• Petru Kuki
• Marcela Moldovan-Zsak
• Tudor Petruş
• Anton Pongratz
• Ioan Popa
• Ecaterina steel
• Paul Szabo
• Mihai Țiu

Weightlifting

• Dragomir Cioroslan

Handball

• Ștefan Birtalan , silver
• Adrian Cosma , silver
• Cezar Drăgăniță , silver
• Alexandru Fölker , silver
• Cristian Gațu , silver
• Mircea Grabovschi , silver
• Roland Gunesch , silver
• Gabriel Kicsid , silver
• Ghiță Licu , silver
• Nicolae Munteanu , silver
• Cornel Penu , silver
• Werner Stöckl , silver
• Constantin Tudosie , silver
• Radu Voina , silver
• Simona Arghir
• Maria Bosi
• Doina Cojocaru
• Doina Furcoi
• Iuliana Hobincu
• Elisabeta Ionescu
• Viorica Ionică
• Maria Lackovics
• Georgeta Lăcustă
• Magdalena Mikloș
• Cristina Petrovici
• Constantina Pițigoi
• Niculina Sasu
• Rozalia Șoș

canoe

• Vasile Dîba , gold , bronze
• Gheorghe Danielov , silver
• Gheorghe Simionov , silver
• Policarp Malîhin , bronze
• Larion Serghei , bronze
• Nicuşor Eşanu
• Nastasia Nichitov
• Agafia Orlov
• Ivan Patzaichin
• Vasile Simiocenco
• Nicolae Simionenco
• Maria Mihoreanu
• Mihai Zafiu

athletics

• Gheorghe Megelea , bronze
• Valeria Ștefănescu
• Gheorghe Cefan
• Carol Corbu
• Ilie Floroiu
• Gheorghe Ghipu
• Natalia Mărăşescu
• Argentina Menis
• Iosif Naghi
• Cornelia Popa
• Maricica Puică
• Ileana Silai
• Doina Spînu
• Mariana Suman
• Elena Vintilă
• Éva Zörgő

Wrestling

• Gheorghe Berceanu , silver
• Nicu Gîngă , silver
• Ștefan Rusu , silver
• Roman Codreanu , bronze
• Stelian Morcov , bronze
• Ladislau Șimon , bronze
• Constantin Alexandru
• Gigel Anghel
• Mihai Boțilă
• Gheorghe Ciobotaru
• Petre Coman
• Petre Dicu
• Ion enache
• Vasile Iorga
• Constantin Măndilă
• Nicolae Martinescu
• Enache Panait
• Ion Păun
• Marin Pîrcălabu

rowing

• Felicia Afrăsiloaie , bronze
• Elena Giurcă , bronze
• Elisabeta Lazăr , bronze
• Maria Micșa , bronze
• Ioana Tudoran , bronze
• Elena Avram
• Marioara Constantin
• Ernest Gal
• Dumitru Grumezescu
• Walter Lambertus
• Aurelia Marinescu
• Aneta Matei
• Marinela Maxim
• Georgeta Militaru
• Iuliana Munteanu
• Elena Oprea
• Florica Petcu
• Marlena Predescu
• Nicolae Simion
• Filigonia Tol
• Ștefan Tudor

shoot

• Corneliu Ion
• Dan Iuga
• Ștefan Kaban
• Adalbert Oster
• Nicolae Rotaru
• Marin Stan
• Gheorghe Vasilescu

do gymnastics

The Romanian gymnastics team won silver; 3rd from left Nadia Comăneci

• Nadia Comăneci , 3x gold , silver , bronze
• Teodora Ungureanu , 2x silver , bronze
• Mariana Constantin , silver
• Georgeta Gabor , silver
• Anca Grigoraș , silver
• Gabriela Truşcă , silver
• Dan Grecu , bronze
• Mihai Borș
• Sorin Cepoi
• Ion Checicheș
• Ștefan Gal
• Nicolae Oprescu

Water polo

• Adrian Nastasiu
• Dinu Popescu
• Liviu Răducanu
• Viorel Rus
• Claudiu Rusu
• Cornel Rusu
• Adrian Schervan
• Florin Slavei
• Ilie Slăvei
• Doru Spînu
• Gheorghe Zamfirescu

Web links

• Romanian Olympic Team 1976 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Romanian Olympic Team 1976 at COSR (Romanian)