Athletes from Romania have obtained
\nthe best performances in individual contests of the 21 editions of the Olympic
\nGames they have attended. Teams from Romania have obtained only six medals,
\nfour in handball competitions, one in volleyball and one in rugby. Most of the
\nmedals have been claimed by Romania’s male and female gymnasts who stepped onto
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The first participation of our
\ngymnasts in an Olympic contest was in Berlin in 1936 but they started winning
\nmedals only 20 years later. Elena Leustean became bronze medalist in the floor
\nevent in Melbourne where the Romanian team also ended in the third position.
\nAnother bronze was won in Rome in 1960, which was followed by a 16 year pause. <\/p>\n
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Then Nadia Comaneci managed a
\nperfect ten making the three-digit scoreboard in Montreal obsolete. Nadia has
\nwon five Olympic gold medals, three of them in Montreal, in the individual
\nall-round, balance beam and uneven bars event. Ecaterina Szabo comes next with
\nfour Olympic titles all of them in Los Angeles in 1984. Three Olympic gold
\nmedals have been won by Daniela Silivas, Simona Amanar and Catalina Ponor.
\nSilivas compelled recognition in Seoul in 1988 when she won the uneven bars,
\nbeam and floor events. <\/p>\n
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Amanar won the vault event in
\nAtlanta in 1996 and individual all round and the team contest in Sydney 2000.
\nPonor won the Olympic titles in the beam, floor and teams contests in Athens,
\nin 2004. In the men’s competitions, Romania had only one Olympic champion,
\nMarius Urzica who won the pommel horse event in Sydney. <\/p>\n
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When it comes to the best Olympic
\nperformances, the Romanian rowers are coming right after the gymnasts with 38
\nmedals, half of them gold. Romania’s first participation in an Olympic competition
\nwas in Helsinki, in 1952 and has so far missed only one edition in 1956. The first
\nmedal was obtained in Munich in 1972 by Petre Ceapura, Ladislau Lovrenschi and
\nStefan Tudor who became bronze medalists in the Men’s Coxed Pairs. <\/p>\n
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The women’s contests were
\nintroduced for the first time in Montreal in 1976 and Romania’s coxed quadruple
\nscull stepped onto the podium’s third step. At the next edition held in Moscow
\nin 1980, Sanda Toma won gold for Romania in the single scull race. Women rowers
\nfrom Romania dominated the competitions from 1984 to 2004 winning 17 gold
\nmedals most of them in the Los Angeles Olympics.<\/p>\n
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In 1984, Romanian rowers won five
\nOlympic titles in the women’s competitions and one in the men’s contests.
\nGeorgeta Andrunache and Viorica Susanu obtained the last Olympic gold for
\nRomania in the women’s pairs of the Beijing Olympics while the Romanian eight
\nobtained the bronze medal in the 2016 edition in Rio. <\/p>\n
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Next in terms of Olympic medals won
\nfor Romania are athletes with 35 medals, kayak-canoeists with 34 and wrestlers
\nwith 33 medals. Iolanda Balas is the only Romanian athlete with two gold medals
\nin the Olympic Games, in 1960 in Rome and 1964 in Tokyo. Ivan Patzaichin reaped
\nfour gold medals and three silver in the kayak-canoe races. He and Serghei
\nCovaliov compelled recognition in the 1000 meter race of Mexico Olympics in
\n1968, in Moscow 1980 and in Los Angeles four years later together with Toma
\nSimionov. Patzaichin also won the 1000 meter single race in Munich in 1972. <\/p>\n
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Gheorghe Berceanu and Stefan Rusu
\ncompelled recognition in Greek-Roman wrestling competitions. Berceanu won gold
\nin Munich and silver four years later in Montreal while Rusu became silver
\nmedalist in Montreal and gold medalist at the Olympics in Moscow. <\/p>\n
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