Vasile Tomoiaga

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Vasile Tomoiagă (born January 20, 1964 in Vişeu de Sus ) is a former Romanian rower who was second in the 1984 Olympics in two with helmsman and second in the Olympics in four with helmsman in 1988 . At world championships he won gold, silver and bronze once.

Athletic career

The 1.97 m tall Vasile Tomoiagă competed at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles together with Dimitrie Popescu and helmsman Dumitru Răducanu in two with helmsman. The Romanians qualified as winners of the first heat directly for the final, as did the Italians Carmine and Giuseppe Abbagnale and Giuseppe Di Capua in the second heat. In the final, the Italians pulled away and won five seconds ahead of the Romanians, who won silver with one and a half seconds ahead of the boat from the United States. The following year, the Italians also won the 1985 World Championships in Hazewinkel ahead of the Romanians and the boat from the GDR. In 1986 at the World Championships in Nottingham Popescu and Tomoiagă finished fourth with helmsman Natanail Lupulescu behind the boats from the United Kingdom, Italy and the GDR. At the 1987 World Championships in Copenhagen, the Abbagnale brothers and helmsman Di Capua won ahead of the 1986 British world champions Andrew Holmes , Steven Redgrave and helmsman Patrick Sweeney . Behind them, Popescu and Tomoiagă rowed the bronze medal with helmsman Marin Gheorghe .

At the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Popescu and Tomoiagă competed in twos with the fourth helmsman in four years; the experienced Ladislau Lovrenschi had already participated in the 1968 Olympic Games twenty years earlier . They took fourth place behind the boats from Italy, the GDR and the United Kingdom. Together with Ioan Șnep and Valentin Robu , they won the silver medal behind the four from the GDR in the four with helmsman. Tomoiagă won his only big title at the 1989 World Championships in Bled, when he was world champion in four with a helmsman together with Vasile Năstase , Dimitrie Popescu, Valentin Robu and helmsman Marin Gheorge. At the 1990 World Championships , the Romanian four-man finished sixth with the same crew as in the previous year. In 1991 Tomoiagă rowed in the Romanian eighth , which reached fourth place at the 1991 World Championships . The following year, Vasile Tomoiagă appeared at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona together with Dragoş Neagu in two without a helmsman . After third place in the preliminary run, they finished last in the repechage.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1015
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 502
personal data
SURNAME Tomoiaga, Vasile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian rower
DATE OF BIRTH 20th January 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Vişeu de Sus