Valentin Robu

Valentin Robu (born January 17, 1967 in Săbăoani , Neamț County ) is a former Romanian rower , who was second in the 1988 Olympics in the four with helmsman and second in the eight in the 1992 Olympics . At world championships he won gold twice, silver three times and bronze three times.

Athletic career

The 1.93 m tall Valentin Robu achieved his breakthrough to the top of the world at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul when he won the Olympic silver medal behind the four-man with helmsman from the GDR together with Dimitrie Popescu , Ioan Șnep , Vasile Tomoiagă and helmsman Ladislau Lovrenschi . The following year Robu entered the 1989 World Championships with Vasile Năstase , Dimitrie Popescu, Vasile Tomoiagă and helmsman Marin Gheorghe and won the world title in front of the boats from Czechoslovakia and the United Kingdom. After the Romanian four-man with helmsman finished sixth at the 1990 World Championships , it was filled again in 1991. Together with Dănuț Dobre , Dragoș Neagu , Ioan Șnep and helmsman Dumitru Răducanu , Robu won the silver medal, the title went to the German four-man with helmsman. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Dobre and Robu were among the Romanian eighth, who won the silver medal 0.14 seconds behind the boat from Canada.

At the 1993 World Championships , the Romanian eighth with Valentin Robu won the silver medal behind the Germany eighth . 1994 in Indianapolis Robu sat again in the four with helmsman, who won the title in front of the American hosts in the line-up of Valentin Robu, Iulică Ruican , Viorel Talapan , Florian Tudor and helmsman Marin Gheorghe . The rowers of the Romanian foursome also competed with the eighth and won bronze here behind the boats from the United States and the Netherlands. At the 1995 World Championships Robu finished fifth with eighth place, the following year he placed eighth at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta as the winner of the B run in seventh place. At the 1997 World Championships , the US eight won ahead of the Romanians, and in 1998 the Romanians won bronze in Cologne . Robu won his last international medal at the 1999 World Championships when he rowed bronze in a foursome with a helmsman. At the end of his career, he finished tenth in the four without a helmsman at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.

Valentin Robu is married to the rower Doina Ciucanu-Robu .

Web links

• Valentin Robu in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Valentin Robu at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Medal winner at world championships in four-man with helmsman on sport-komplett.de
• Medal winner at world championships in figure eight on sport-komplett.de