Romania at the 1984 Summer Olympics

Romania at the
1984 Summer Olympics
Romania at the; 1984 Summer Olympics
IOC code	ROU; (ROM used at these Games)
NOC	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
Website	www.cosr.ro (in Romanian, English, and French)
in Los Angeles
Competitors	124 (71 men and 53 women) in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Corneliu Ion
Medals; Ranked 2nd	Gold 20 Silver 16 Bronze 17 Total 53
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Romania competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 124 competitors, 71 men and 53 women, took part in 86 events in 13 sports.^[1] Notably, Romania was the only Eastern Bloc nation to participate at these Games; all others followed the Soviet Union's boycott of the Games. The Romanian athletes were greeted with warm applause as they entered the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the opening ceremony, in part an affirmation of the nation's defiance of the boycott.^[2]^[3] The Romanian Olympic team was phenomenally successful at the games, ultimately placing second to the United States in the gold medal tally.

Medalists[]

Gold[]

Doina Melinte — Athletics, Women's 800 metres
Maricica Puică — Athletics, Women's 3000 metres
Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
Ivan Patzaichin and Toma Simionov — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000m Canadian Pairs
Agafia Constantin-Buhaev, Nastasia Ionescu, Tecla Marinescu-Borcanca and Maria Stefan-Mihoreanu — Canoeing, Women's K4 500m Kayak Fours
Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault
Simona Păucă — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises
Lavinia Agache, Laura Cutina, Cristina Elena Grigoraș, Simona Păucă, Mihaela Stanulet, and Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises
Petru Iosub and Valer Toma — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pairs
Valeria Răcilă — Rowing, Women's Single Sculls
Elisabeta Lipă and Marioara Popescu — Rowing, Women's Double Sculls
Ioana Badea, Sofia Corban, Ekaterina Oancia, Anisoara Sorohan, and Maricica Taran — Rowing, Women's Coxed Quadruple Sculls
Rodica Arba and Elena Horvat — Rowing, Women's Coxless Pairs
Chira Apostol, Maria Tănasă-Fricioiu, Olga Homeghi, Viorica Ioja, and Florica Lavric — Rowing, Women's Coxed Fours
Petre Becheru — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight (82½ kg)
Nicu Vlad — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight (90 kg)
Ion Draica — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight
Vasile Andrei — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight

Silver[]

Doina Melinte — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres
Valeria Ionescu — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
Mihaela Loghin — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
Ivan Patzaichin and Toma Simionov — Canoeing, Men's C2 500m Canadian Pairs
Aurora Dan, Rozalia Oros, Elisabeta Tufan-Guzganu, Monika Weber, and Marcela Zsak — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition
Ekaterina Szabó — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
Doina Staiculescu — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around
Dimitrie Popescu, Dumitru Răducanu and Vasile Tomoiagă — Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs
Mihaela Armășescu, Adriana Bazon-Chelariu, Camelia Diaconescu, Viorica Ioja, Aneta Mihaly, Aurora Pleșca, Lucia Sauca, Doina Liliana Snep-Balan and Marioara Trașcă — Rowing, Women's Eights
Corneliu Ion — Shooting, Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol
Gelu Radu — Weightlifting, Men's Featherweight (60 kg)
Andrei Socaci — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight (67½ kg)
Petre Dumitru — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight (90 kg)
Vasile Groapă — Weightlifting, Men's First Heavyweight (100 kg)
Stefan Tasnadi — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (110 kg)
Ilie Matei — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight

Bronze[]

Fița Lovin — Athletics, Women's 800 metres
Maricica Puică — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres
Cristieana Cojocaru — Athletics, Women's 400m Hurdles
Florența Crăciunescu — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
Mircea Fulger — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
Costică Olaru — Canoeing, Men's C1 500m Canadian Singles
Alexandru Chiculiță, Corneliu Marin, Marin Mustață, Ioan Pop, and Vilmoș Szabo — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team Competition
Simona Păucă — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
Lavinia Agache — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault
Mircea Bedivan, Dumitru Berbece, Iosif Boroș, Alexandru Buligan, Gheorghe Covaciu, Gheorghe Dogărescu, Marian Dumitru, Cornel Durău, Alexander Fölker, Nicolae Munteanu, Vasile Oprea, Adrian Simion, Vasile Stîngă, Neculai Vasilcă, and Maricel Voinea — Handball, Men's Team Competition
Mircea Frățică — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
Mihai Cioc — Judo, Men's Open Class
Anca Pătrășcoiu — Swimming, Women's 200m Backstroke
Dragomir Cioroslan — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight (75 kg)
Ștefan Rusu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight
Victor Dolipschi — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight
Vasile Pușcașu — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight (100 kg)

Athletics[]

Women's 1,500 metres

Doina Melinte

Heat — 4:10.48
Final — 4:03.76 (→ Silver Medal)

Maricica Puică

Heat — 4:05.30
Final — 4:04.15 (→ Bronze Medal)

Fița Lovin

Heat — 4:10.58
Final — 4:09.11 (→ 9th place)

Women's 3,000 metres

Maricica Puică

Heat — 8:43.32
Final — 8:35.96 (→ Gold Medal)

Women's 400m Hurdles

Cristieana Cojocaru

Heat — 56.94
Semifinal — 55.24
Final — 55.41 (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's High Jump

Niculina Vasile

Qualification — 1.90m
Final — 1.85m (→ 11th place)

Women's Long Jump

Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu

Qualification — 6.69 m
Final — 6.96 m (→ Gold Medal)

Valy Ionescu

Qualification — 6.60 m
Final — 6.81 m (→ Silver Medal)

Women's Discus Throw

Florența Crăciunescu

Qualification — 57.84m
Final — 63.64m (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's Shot Put

Mihaela Loghin

Final — 20.47 m (→ Silver Medal)

Florența Crăciunescu

Final — 17.23 m (→ 8th place)

Boxing[]

Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)

Nicolae Talpos

First Round — Bye
Second Round — Lost to Meldrick Taylor (United States), 0:5

Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)

Viorel Ioana

First Round — Lost to Renato Cornett (Australia), 1:4

Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)

Mircea Fulger → Bronze Medal

First Round — Bye
Second Round — Defeated Jean Duarte (France), RSC-1
Third Round — Defeated Stefan Sjøstrand (SWE), 5:0
Quarterfinals — Defeated Lofti Belkhir (Tunisia), 5:0
Semifinals — Lost to Dhawee Umponmaha (Thailand), 0:5

Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)

Rudel Obreja

First Round — Defeated Antoine Loungoude (RCA), KO-1
Second Round — Defeated Michael Hughes (GBR), 5:0
Third Round — Lost to Mark Breland (United States), 0:5

Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)

Gheorghe Simion

First Round — Lost to Ahn Dal-Ho (South Korea), 0:5

Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)

Georgica Donici

First Round — Bye
Second Round — Defeated Fine Sani (Tonga), 5:0
Quarterfinals — Lost to Anton Josipović (Yugoslavia), 0:5

Canoeing[]

Fencing[]

Eleven fencers, six men and five women, represented Romania in 1984.

Men's foil

Petru Kuki

Men's sabre

Men's team sabre

Marin Mustață, Ioan Pop, Alexandru Chiculiță, Cornel Marin, Vilmoș Szabo

Women's foil

Women's team foil

Aurora Dan, Monika Weber-Koszto, Rozalia Oros, Marcela Moldovan-Zsak, Elisabeta Guzganu-Tufan

Gymnastics[]

Handball[]

Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Round (Group A)

Defeated Algeria (25-16)
Defeated Iceland (26-17)
Defeated Switzerland (23-17)
Defeated Japan (28-22)
Lost to Yugoslavia (18-19)

Bronze Medal Match

Defeated Denmark (23-19) → Bronze Medal

Team Roster

Judo[]

Rhythmic gymnastics[]

Rowing[]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Petru Iosub Valer Toma	Coxless pair	6:56.60	2 Q	BYE		6:53.23	1 Q	6:45.39
Dimitrie Popescu Vasile Tomoiagă Dumitru Răducanu	Coxed pair	7:12.18	1 Q	BYE		N/A		7:11.21

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Valeria Răcilă	Single sculls	3:44.22	1 Q	BYE		3:54.55	1 Q	3:40.68
Marioara Popescu Elisabeta Oleniuc	Double sculls	3:24.28	1 Q	BYE		N/A		3:26.75
Rodica Arba Elena Horvat	Coxless pair	N/A						3:32.60
Florica Lavric Maria Tănasă-Fricioiu Chira Apostol Olga Homeghi-Bularda Viorica Ioja	Coxed four	3:21.61	1 Q	BYE		N/A		3:19.30
Titie Taran Anișoara Sorohan Ioana Badea Sofia Corban Ecaterina Oancia	Quadruple sculls (coxed)	3:15.34	1 Q	BYE		N/A		3:14.11
Marioara Trașcă Lucia Sauca Doina Șnep-Bălan Aneta Mihaly Aurora Pleșca Camelia Diaconescu Viorica Ioja Mihaela Armășescu Adriana Bazon-Chelariu	Eight	N/A						2:59.80

Shooting[]

Men

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Sorin Babii	50 m pistol	555	11
Corneliu Ion	25 m rapid fire pistol	593
Constantin Stan	50 metre rifle three positions	1140	20
	50 metre rifle prone	591	17
	10 m air rifle	577	20
Marin Stan	25 m rapid fire pistol	588	13

Women

Athlete	Event	Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Elena Macovei	25 m pistol	572	15
Maria Macovei	25 m pistol	577	8

Swimming[]

Women's 100m Backstroke

Carmen Bunaciu

Heat — 1:03.79
Final — 1:03.21 (→ 4th place)

Anca Pătrășcoiu

Heat — 1:04.16
Final — 1:03.29 (→ 5th place)

Women's 200m Backstroke

Anca Pătrășcoiu

Heat — 2:16.71
Final — 2:13.29 (→ Bronze Medal)

Carmen Bunaciu

Heat — 2:16.41
Final — 2:16.15 (→ 7th place)

Women's 400m Individual Medley

Anca Pătrășcoiu

Heat — 5:03.97
B-Final — 5:05.53 (→ 16th place)

Weightlifting[]

Wrestling[]

References[]

^ "Romania at the 1984 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
^ Litsky, Frank (July 29, 1984). "President and Pomp Begin Games". The New York Times. p. 1, 8, § 5. Retrieved 2020-08-28. Of the first 139 nations in the parade, the biggest cheers went to Rumania, the only Warsaw Pact nation competing here.
^ Yake, D. Byron (July 29, 1984). "'84 Olympics: Gala trumpets in Games". Beaver County Times. AP. p. A1, A10. Retrieved 2020-08-28. The Romanians, the only Eastern bloc nation to defy the Soviet boycott, were greeted with a standing ovation.

[sports-reference-1] "Romania at the 1984 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17. Retrieved 2011-05-13.

[2] Litsky, Frank (July 29, 1984). "President and Pomp Begin Games". The New York Times. p. 1, 8, § 5. Retrieved 2020-08-28. Of the first 139 nations in the parade, the biggest cheers went to Rumania, the only Warsaw Pact nation competing here.

[3] Yake, D. Byron (July 29, 1984). "'84 Olympics: Gala trumpets in Games". Beaver County Times. AP. p. A1, A10. Retrieved 2020-08-28. The Romanians, the only Eastern bloc nation to defy the Soviet boycott, were greeted with a standing ovation.

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Romania at the 1984 Summer Olympics

IOC code	ROU (ROM used at these Games)
NOC	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
Website	www.cosr.ro (in Romanian, English, and French)
in Los Angeles
Competitors	124 (71 men and 53 women) in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Corneliu Ion
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 20 Silver 16 Bronze 17 Total 53
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1900 1904–1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020