Romania first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a single participant. The National Olympic Committee for Romania is the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee, and was created and recognized in 1914. The nation first sent a team to compete at the Games in 1924, and has only missed two editions each of the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then. Notably, Romania was the lone Eastern Bloc nation to participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics, which the other nations boycotted. That was also Romania's most successful Olympic Games: they won 20 gold medals and 53 medals in total.
| Romania at the Olympics | |
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| IOC code | ROU |
| NOC | Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee |
| Website | www |
| Medals Ranked 21st |
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| Winter appearances | |
Gymnastics is Romania's top medal-producing sport. Romania has won the third highest total number of medals (after Hungary, and Poland) of nations that have never hosted the Games.
History
editFrom the 1972 Summer Olympics through the 2012 Summer Olympics, Romania had qualified a women's team for the gymnastics team all-around. They had won medals at every Olympics from the 1976 Summer Olympics through to the 2012 Summer Games. However, the women's team failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics, ending the 40-year run in medals, and the 44-year run of having a team at the Olympics.[1][2][3]
At the winter Olympics Romania has won only one medal, at the 1968 Winter Olympics with two-man bobsleigh team led by Ion Panțuru and Nicolae Neagoe.
Medal tables
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Medals by summer sportedit
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Medals by winter sportedit
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Medalists
editSummer medallists with minimum 2 gold
edit| Athlete | Sport | Years | Gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| Nadia Comăneci |  Gymnastics
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1976–1980 | F | 5 | 3 | 1 | 9 |
| Elisabeta Lipă |  Rowing
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1984–2004 | F | 5 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| Georgeta Damian | Rowing
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2000–2008 | F | 5 | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| Ivan Patzaichin |  Canoeing
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1968–1984 | M | 4 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| Doina Ignat | Rowing
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1992–2008 | F | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| Ecaterina Szabo | Gymnastics
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1984 | F | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Viorica Susanu | Rowing
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2000–2008 | F | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Daniela Silivaș | Gymnastics
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1988 | F | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Simona Amânar | Gymnastics
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1996–2000 | F | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| Constanța Burcică | Rowing
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1992–2008 | F | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Elena Georgescu | Rowing
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1992–2008 | F | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Cătălina Ponor | Gymnastics
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2004–2012 | F | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Liliana Gafencu | Rowing
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1996–2004 | F | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Veronica Cochela | Rowing
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1988–2000 | F | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Lavinia Miloșovici | Gymnastics
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1992–1996 | F | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Rodica Arba | Rowing
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1980–1988 | F | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Olga Homeghi | Rowing
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1980–1988 | F | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Toma Simionov | Canoeing
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1980–1984 | M | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Ioana Olteanu | Rowing
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1992–2000 | F | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Ancuța Bodnar | Rowing
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2020– | F | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Simona Radiș | Rowing
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2020– | F | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Sandra Izbașa | Gymnastics
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2008–2012 | F | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Leon Rotman | Canoeing
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1956–1960 | M | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Simona Păucă | Gymnastics
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1984 | F | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Iolanda Balaș |  Athletics
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1960–1964 | F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Marioara Popescu | Rowing
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1984–1996 | F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Diana Mocanu |  Swimming
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2000 | F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Angela Alupei | Rowing
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2000–2004 | F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Monica Roșu | Gymnastics
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2004 | F | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Winter medallists
edit| Athlete | Sport | Years | Gender | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ion Panțuru |  Bobsleigh
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1968 | M | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Nicolae Neagoe | Bobsleigh
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1968 | M | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Summary by sport
editShooting
editRomania's only appearance before 1924 was a single shooter at the 1900 Games, when Gheorghe Plagino placed 13th in the trap.
| Games | Shooters | Events | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 Paris | 1 | 1/9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 6 | 4 | 5 | 15 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Dvora Meyers (19 April 2016). "Romania's Olympic gymnastics failure: where did it all go wrong?". The Guardian (London).
- ^ Laura Wagner (18 April 2016). "Romanian Women's Gymnastics Team Fails To Qualify For Olympics, Ending Medal Streak". npr.
- ^ Erin Corbett (4 August 2016). "Why Isn't The Romania Gymnastics Team At Rio? The Women's Team Isn't Competing This Year". Bustle.com.
External links
edit- "Romania". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
- "Romania". Olympedia.com.
- "Olympic Analytics/ROU". olympanalyt.com.