Romania at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Romania at the Olympic Games
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IOC code: ROU
1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
Medals	Gold 3	Silver 6	Bronze 7	Total 16
Summer Olympic Games appearances
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Romania competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

1 Medals
2 Results by event

[edit] Medals

Romania finished in 13th position in the final medal rankings, with three gold medals and 16 medals overall.

[edit] Gold

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

[edit] Silver

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

[edit] Bronze

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

Cornel Penu, Alexandru Dinca, Gavril Kicsid, Ghita Licu, Cristian Gatu, Roland Gunes, Radu Voinea, Simion Schöbel, Gheorghe Gruia, Werner Stöckl, Daniel Marin, Adrian Cosma, Valentin Samungi, Constantin Tudosie, and Stefan Birtalan — Handball, Men's Team Competition

Nicolae Rotaru — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, prone

Serghei Covaliov and Ivan Patzaichin — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000m Canadian Pairs

Victor Dolipschi — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight

Vasile Iorga — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

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)

[edit] Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48kg)

Alexandru Turei

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 Jozsef Reder (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

[edit] Diving

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)

Romania's first round opponents in the second Olympic handball tournament included the West German team as well as Norway and Spain. Romania beat all three, concluding with a 13-11 win over the Germans, to take first place in the group and advance to the second round. There, the team defeated Hungary but was defeated by eventual gold medallist Yugoslavia to put Romania in second place in the group and relegate the team to the bronze medal game. They won the medal, defeating the East Germans 19-16.

Men's Team Competition: