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) (in English) (in 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. The Romanian olympic team was phenomenally successful at the games, ultimately placing just under the United States in the gold medal tally.

Medalists[edit]

Gold[edit]

• 
  Doina Melinte — Athletics, Women's 800 metres


• 
  Maricica Puică — Athletics, Women's 3000 metres


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  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


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  Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault


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  Simona Păucă and Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam


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  Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises


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  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


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  Valeria Răcilă — Rowing, Women's Single Sculls


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  Elisabeta Lipă and Marioara Popescu — Rowing, Women's Double Sculls


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  Ioana Badea, Sofia Corban, Ekaterina Oancia, Anisoara Sorohan, and Maricica Taran — Rowing, Women's Coxed Quadruple Sculls


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  Rodica Arba and Elena Horvat — Rowing, Women's Coxless Pairs


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  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[edit]

• 
  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


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  Dimitrie Popescu, Dumitru Răducanu and Vasile Tomoiagă — Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs


• 
  Mihaela Armășescu, Adriana Bazon-Chelariu, Camelia Diaconescu, Viorica Ioja, Aneta Mihaly, Aurora Plesca, 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)


• 
  Andrej Socaci — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight (67½ kg)


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  Petre Dumitru — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight (90 kg)


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  Vasile Groapa — Weightlifting, Men's First Heavyweight (100 kg)


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  Stefan Tasnadi — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (110 kg)


• 
  Ilie Matei — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight

Bronze[edit]

• 
  Fița Lovin — Athletics, Women's 800 metres


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  Maricica Puică — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres


• 
  Cristieana Cojocaru — Athletics, Women's 400m Hurdles


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  Florența Crăciunescu — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw


• 
  Mircea Fulger — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight


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  Costicǎ Olaru — Canoeing, Men's C1 500m Canadian Singles


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  Alexandru Chiculiță, Corneliu Marin, Marin Mustață, Ion 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[edit]

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[edit]

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 Sani Vea (Tonga), 5:0


• Quarterfinals — Lost to Anton Josipović (Yugoslavia), 0:5

Canoeing[edit]

Fencing[edit]

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

Men's foil

• Petru Kuki

Men's sabre

• Marin Mustață


• Ioan Pop


• Cornel Marin

Men's team sabre

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

Women's foil

• Elisabeta Guzganu-Tufan


• Aurora Dan


• Marcela Moldovan-Zsak

Women's team foil

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

Gymnastics[edit]

Handball[edit]

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

• Mircea Bedivan


• Dumitru Berbece


• Iosif Boroș


• Alexandru Buligan


• Gheorghe Covaciu


• Gheorghe Dogărescu


• Marian Dumitru


• Cornel Durău


• Alexandru Fölker


• Nicolae Munteanu


• Vasile Oprea


• Adrian Simion


• Vasile Stîngă


• Neculai Vasilcă


• Maricel Voinea

Judo[edit]

Rhythmic gymnastics[edit]

Rowing[edit]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
		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
		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[edit]

Swimming[edit]

Women's 100m Backstroke

• Carmen Bunaciu

• Heat — 1:03.79


• Final — 1:03.21 (→ 4th place)

• Anca Patrascoiu

• Heat — 1:04.16


• Final — 1:03.29 (→ 5th place)

Women's 200m Backstroke

• Anca Patrascoiu

• 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 Patrascoiu

• Heat — 5:03.97


• B-Final — 5:05.53 (→ 16th place)

Weightlifting[edit]

Wrestling[edit]

References[edit]