Petre Ceapura

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Petre Ceapura (born July 12, 1942 in Jurilovca , Tulcea County ) is a former Romanian rower who was world champion in 1970 and Olympic knight in two-man with helmsman in 1972 .

Athletic career

The 1.88 m tall Petre Ceapura won his first international medal at the 1967 European Championships in Vichy. The Romanian four-man with helmsman in the line-up of Reinhold Batschi , Petre Ceapura, Emanoil Stratan , Ștefan Tudor and helmsman Ladislau Lovrenschi received the bronze medal behind the boats from the USSR and from the GDR. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, the Romanian foursome with Francisc Papp finished seventh in the foursome for Stratan.

At the European Championships in 1969 in Klagenfurt, Ceapura, together with Gheorghe Moldoveanu and helmsman Gheorghe Gheorghiu, won the bronze medal in two with a helmsman behind the boats from Czechoslovakia and Italy. Together with Ștefan Tudor and Ladislau Lovrenschi, Ceapura won the 1970 World Championships in St. Catharines, Canada, ahead of the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union. At the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1971 , Ceapura and Tudor competed with Gheorghiu as helmsman and took fourth place behind the boats from the GDR, Czechoslovakia and the USSR. In 1972 at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Lovrenschi drove again. Ceapura, Tudor and Lovrenschi reached the final in Munich and won the bronze medal behind the boats from the GDR and from Czechoslovakia.

The following year, Ceapura, Tudor and Gheorghiu won bronze behind the boats from the USSR and from the GDR at the 1973 European Championships in Moscow. At the 1975 World Championships in Nottingham, Ceapura, Tudor and Lovrenschi finished ninth with the two.

In 1977 at the 1977 World Championships in Amsterdam, Petre Ceapura, Gabriel Bularda and Ladislau Lovrenschi took fifth place in a pair of two. Two years later, the three Romanians also achieved fifth place at the 1979 World Championships in Bled. In 1980, Ceapura, Bularda and Lourenschi, fourth in the Moscow Olympics, missed a medal by just over two seconds.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ European championships in four with a helmsman at sport-komplett.de
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 126f (foursome)
  3. ↑ European championships in two with helmsman at sport-komplett.de
  4. ↑ World championships in two with helmsman at sport-komplett.de
  5. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 339
  6. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 774f
personal data
SURNAME Ceapura, Petre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian rower
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Jurilovca , Tulcea County