Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Participant (Moldova)

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The Republic of Moldova took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London . It was the fifth overall participation in the Summer Olympics. The Comitetul National Olimpic al Republicii Moldova nominated 23 athletes in nine sports.

The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the archer Dan Olaru .

The discus thrower Natalia Artyk did not start after a positive doping result, the nomination of the hammer thrower Marina Marghieva was withdrawn after a positive doping result ( stanozolol ) on August 4th, 2012. The B samples were also positive.

Moldova originally won two bronze medals in weightlifting. However, the two medalists Anatolii Cîrîcu and Cristina Iovu were disqualified in follow-up tests. The two medals were stripped of them in November 2016.

Participants by sport

Archery

Athletes	competition	qualification		1 round		2nd round		Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final		rank
		Rings	rank	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Men
Dan Olaru	singles	654	47	Jake Kaminski	6: 5	Simon Terry	7: 1	Kim Bub-min	1: 7	eliminated						9

Boxing

Athletes	competition	1 round		Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		final		rank
		opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Men
Vasile Belous	Welter weight up to 69 kg	Selemani Kidunda	20: 7	Taras Shelestyuk	7:15	eliminated						9

Weightlifting

Originally the weightlifter Cristina Iovu , who competed in the class up to 53 kg, and weightlifter Anatolii Cîrîcu , who competed in the class up to 94 kg, were honored with the bronze medal. In a large-scale doping control, the International Olympic Committee announced on November 21, 2019 that a total of 12 athletes from the 2012 Olympic Games had been disqualified after a new analysis of their blood samples. Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone ( Turinabol ) was found in the blood of both athletes . Cîrîcu was thus convicted of an overtaking offender and was banned for eight years. Iovu received a four-year ban, which she successfully challenged for having committed two violations, but the second was exposed before the first. After participating in Moldova, she changed her nationality and in a training camp in Azerbaijan in 2013 she tested positive for steroids for the first time. However, winning the bronze medal in the 2012 Games was not revealed until 2016. Therefore, she was allowed to compete in the World Cup in Turkmenistan again in November 2018, this time for Romania, where she was disqualified again for doping. You are threatened with a lifelong ban by the IMF .

Athletes	competition	Tear		Bump		Duel		rank
		Weight	rank	Weight	rank	Weight	rank
Women
Cristina Iovu	Class up to 53 kg	99 kg	1	120 kg	3	219 kg	3	disqualified
Men
Anatolii Cîrîcu	Class up to 94 kg	181 kg	7th	226 kg	2	407 kg	3	disqualified

Judo

Athletes	competition	1 round		2nd round		Round of 16		Quarter finals		Hope round semifinals		Semifinals		Hope round final		final		rank
		opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Men
Sergiu Toma	Class up to 81 kg	bye		Jaromir Musil	0001: 100	Takahiro Nakai	0003: 0101	eliminated										9
Ivan Remarenco	Class up to 90 kg	-		Kirill Denisov	0001: 100	eliminated												17th

athletics

Running and walking

Athletes	competition	leader		Semifinals		final		rank
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Olesea Cojuhari	400 m	53.64 s	5	eliminated				33
Elena Popescu	800 m	2: 06.94 min	6th	eliminated				21st
Natalia Cerches	marathon	-		-		2:37:13 h	65	65
Men
Iaroslav Muşinschi	marathon	-		-		2:16:25 h	25th	25th
Roman Prodius	marathon	-		-		given up
Ion Luchianov	3000 m obstacle	8: 22.09 min	5	-		8: 28.15 min	10	10

Jumping and throwing

Athletes	competition	qualification		final		rank
		Width / height	rank	Width / height	rank
Women
Zalina Marghieva	Hammer throwing	72.19 m	5	74.06 m	8th	8th
Men
Serghei Marghiev	Hammer throwing	69.76 m	31	eliminated		31

Cycling

Street

Athletes	competition	time	rank
Men
Oleg Berdos	Road racing	given up

Wrestling

Athletes	competition	1 round		Round of 16		Quarter finals		Semifinals		Round of Hope quarterfinals		Hope round semifinals		Hope round final		final		rank
		opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result	opponent	Result
Freestyle women
Svetlana Sajenko	Class up to 72 kg	bye		Cynthia Vescan	3: 1	Wang Jiao	0: 5	eliminated										7th
Freestyle men
Nicolai Ceban	Class up to 96 kg	bye		Sinivie Boltic	3: 1	George Gogshelidze	0: 3	eliminated										7th

shoot

Athletes	competition	qualification		final		Rings	rank
		Rings	rank	Rings	rank
Women
Marina Zgurscaia	Air pistol 10 m	377	29	eliminated

swim

Athletes	competition	leader		Semifinals		final		rank
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Women
Tatiana Chisca	100 m chest	1: 13.30 min	8th	eliminated				40
Men
Dănilă Artiomov	100 m chest	1: 03.57 min	8th	eliminated				40

Web links

• Republic of Moldova - Athletes. Official London 2012 website. The London Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited ( LOCOG ), accessed December 17, 2012 . 
• REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA. Official website of the Olympic Movement. The International Olympic Committee ( IOC ), accessed December 17, 2012 . 
• Moldovan Olympic team 2012 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Country: Rep. Of Moldova. london2012.com, accessed July 26, 2012 . 
2. ↑ LONDON 2012 Opening Ceremony - Flag Bearers. (PDF; 160 kB) IOC, accessed on December 18, 2012 (English). 
3. ↑ Suspected doping among several athletes , Welt Online, August 4, 2012
4. ↑ Hacker finished last in the Skiff final , Süddeutsche.de, August 3, 2012
5. ↑ US judoka tested positive and disqualified ( memento from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) , Kleine Zeitung , August 6, 2012
6. ↑ ^{a b} IOC sanctions 12 athletes for failing anti-doping test at London 2012. Olympic.org , November 21, 2016, accessed November 18, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Post- doping tests from 2012: Olympic third Ciricu positive. RP-Online, September 14, 2016, accessed November 18, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Weightlifter Cristina Iovu facing lifetime ban after third violation. cgtn.com, December 29, 2018, accessed November 18, 2019 .