Romania at the 1972 Summer Olympics explained

Romania competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. 159 competitors, 132 men and 27 women, took part in 102 events in 16 sports.^[1]

Medalists

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
	Ivan Patzaichin	Canoeing	Men's C1 1,000m Canadian Singles
	Gheorghe Berceanu	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman Light Flyweight
	Nicolae Martinescu	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight
	Valeria Bufanu	Athletics	Women's 100m Hurdles
	Argentina Menis	Athletics	Women's Discus Throw
	Ion Alexe	Boxing	Men's Heavyweight
	Atanase Sciotnic, Roman Vartolomeu, Aurel Vernescu, and Mihai Zafiu	Canoeing	Men's K4 1000m Kayak Fours
	Serghei Covaliov and Ivan Patzaichin	Canoeing	Men's C2 1000m Canadian Pairs
	Dan Iuga	Shooting	Men's Free Pistol
	Viorica Dumitru and Maria Nichiforov	Canoeing	Women's K2 500m Kayak Pairs
	Ileana Gyulai-Drimba, Ana Pascu-Ene-Dersidan, Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic and Olga Szabo-Orban	Fencing	Women's Foil Team Competition
	Ştefan Birtalan, Adrian Cosma, Marin Dan, Alexandru Dincă, Cristian Gațu, Gheorghe Gruia, Roland Gunesch, Gabriel Kicsid, Ghiţă Licu, Cornel Penu, Valentin Samungi, Simon Schobel, Werner Stöckl, Constantin Tudosie, and Radu Voina	Handball	Men's Team Competition
	Nicolae Rotaru	Shooting	Men's Small-bore Rifle, prone
	Ştefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura and Ladislau Lovrenski	Rowing	Men's Coxed Pairs
	Victor Dolipschi	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight
	Vasile Iorga	Wrestling	Men's Freestyle Middleweight

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Medals by gender
Gender	bgcolor=#F7F6A8		bgcolor=#DCE5E5		bgcolor=#FFDAB9		Total
Male
Female
Total	3	6	7	16

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's 800 metres

• Gheorghe Ghipu

• Heat - 1:50.1 (→ did not advance)

Men's 1500 metres

• Petre Lupan

• Heat - 3:44.8 (→ did not advance)

Men's High Jump

• Qualifying Round - 2.15m

• Final - 2.10m (→ 16th place)

Women's Discus Throw

• Carmen Ionescu
  • Qualifying Round - 57.82 m
  • Final - 60.42 m (→ 7th place)

Women's Javelin Throw

• Éva Ráduly-Zörgő

• Qualification - 54.34 m

• Final - no mark (→ no ranking)

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Light Flyweight ( - 48 kg)

• First Round - Lost to Enrique Rodríguez (ESP), 2:3

Men's Light Middleweight ( - 71 kg)

• Ion Györfi

• First Round - Bye

• Second Round - Lost to Peter Tiepold (GDR), 1:4

Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)

• Ion Alexe → Silver Medal

• First Round - Defeated József Réder (HUN), 5:0

• Quarterfinals - Defeated Jürgen Fanghänel (GDR), 5:0

• Semifinals - Defeated Hasse Thomsén (SWE), 5:0

• Final - Lost to Teófilo Stevenson (CUB), walk-over

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 1972 Summer Olympics. One cyclist represented Romania in 1972.

Individual road race

• Teodor Vasile - 60th place

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's 3m Springboard:

• Ion Ganea - 325.17 points (→ 21st place)

Men's 10m Platform:

• Ion Ganea - 265.83 points (→ 25th place)

Women's 3m Springboard:

• Sorana Prelipceanu - 242.61 points (→ 21st place)
• Melania Decuseara - 232.02 points (→ 27th place)

Women's 10m Platform:

• Melania Decuseara - 182.82 points (→ 16th place)

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1972 Summer Olympics. 19 fencers, 15 men and 4 women, represented Romania in 1972.

Men's foil

• Mihai Țiu
• Ștefan Haukler
• Tănase Mureșanu

Men's team foil

• Iuliu Falb, Ștefan Haukler, Mihai Țiu, Tănase Mureșanu, Aurel Ștefan

Men's épée

• Anton Pongratz
• Alexandru Istrate
• Costică Bărăgan

Men's team épée

• Constantin Duțu, Costică Bărăgan, Anton Pongratz, Alexandru Istrate, Nicolae Iorgu

Men's sabre

• Iosif Budahazi
• Dan Irimiciuc
• Constantin Nicolae

Men's team sabre

• Dan Irimiciuc, Iosif Budahazi, Gheorghe Culcea, Constantin Nicolae, Octavian Vintilă

Women's foil

• Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei
• Olga Orban-Szabo
• Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu

Women's team foil

• Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei, Olga Orban-Szabo, Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Handball

See main article: Handball at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round Group C

• Defeated Norway (18-14)

• Defeated Spain (15-12)

• Defeated West Germany (13-11)
• Main Round Group II

• Defeated Hungary (20-14)

• Lost to Yugoslavia (13-14)
• Final Round, Bronze Medal Match

• Defeated East Germany (19-16)
• Romania - Bronze Medal (5-1-0)
• Team Roster

• Cornel Penu

• Alexandru Dincă

• Gabriel Kicsid

• Ghiţă Licu

• Cristian Gațu

• Roland Gunesch

• Radu Voina

• Simion Schöbel

• Gheorghe Gruia

• Werner Stöckl

• Marin Dan

• Adrian Cosma

• Valentin Samungi

• Constantin Tudosie

• Ştefan Birtalan

Modern pentathlon

See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Three male pentathletes represented Romania in 1972.

Men's Individual Competition:

• Dumitru Spîrlea - 4754 pts (→ 23rd place)
• Marian Cosmescu - 4890 (→ 38th place)
• Adalbert Covacs - 4381 points (→ 48th place)

Men's Team Competition:

• Spirlea, Cosmescu, and Covacs - 13655 points (→ 12th place)

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Coxed Pairs

• Stefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura and Ladislau Lovrenschi

• Heat - 7:47.98

• Repechage - 8:08.34

• Semi Finals - 8:10.89

• Final - 7:21.36 (→ Bronze Medal)

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1972 Summer Olympics. Ten male shooters represented Romania in 1972. Daniel Iuga won silver in the 50 m pistol and Nicolae Rotaru won bronze in the 50 m rifle, prone event.

25 m pistol

• Daniel Iuga
• Ion Tripșa

50 m pistol

• Daniel Iuga

300 m rifle, three positions

• Petre Șandor
• Eugen Satală

50 m rifle, three positions

• Nicolae Rotaru
• Petre Șandor

50 m rifle, prone

• Nicolae Rotaru
• Ilie Codreanu

Trap

• Gheorghe Florescu
• Ion Dumitrescu

Skeet

• Lucian Cojocaru
• Gleb Pintilie

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's 100m Freestyle

• Marian Slavic

• Heat - 55.35s (→ did not advance)

Men's 200m Freestyle

• Marian Slavic

• Heat - 2:00.23 (→ did not advance)

Volleyball

See main article: Volleyball at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Lost to Japan 0-3 (4, 5, 6)

• Defeated West Germany 3-0 (9,1,8)

• Lost to Brazil 2-3 (-16,11,-7,11,-12)

• Defeated Cuba 3-0 (7,15,13)

• Lost to East Germany 0-3 (-10,-12,-7)
• Final Round (places 5-8)

• Defeated South Korea 3-0 (12, 7, 8)

• Defeated Czechoslovakia 3-1 (-8, 7, 10,14) →5th place
• Team Roster

• Gabriel Udişteanu

• Gyula Bartha

• Cornel Oros

• Laurențiu Dumănoiu

• William Schreiber

• Cristian Ion

• Marian Stamate

• Mircea Codoi

• Romeo Enescu

• Stelian Moculescu

• Viorel Bălaj

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Preliminary Round (Group A)

• Lost to United States (3-4)

• Lost to Yugoslavia (7-8)

• Lost to Cuba (3-4)

• Defeated Canada (16-4)

• Defeated Mexico (9-6)
• Final Round (Group II)

• Defeated Spain (7-4)

• Defeated Bulgaria (4-3)

• Drew with the Netherlands (5-5)

• Defeated Australia (5-3) → 8th place
• Team Roster

• Iosif Culiniak

• Corneliu Fratila

• Serban Huber

• Radu Lazar

• Bogdan Mihailescu

• Gruia Novae

• Dinu Popescu

• Viorel Rus

• Claudiu Rusu

• Cornel Rusu

• Gheorghe Zamfirescu

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Romania at the 1972 Munich Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055242/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/ROU/summer/1972/ . dead . 2020-04-17 . 2011-02-20 . sports-reference.com.