Romania at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Sporting event delegation

Romania at the 1976 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 Montreal
Competitors	157 (103 men and 54 women) in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Nicolae Martinescu (wrestling)
Medals Ranked 9th	Gold 4 Silver 9 Bronze 14 Total 27
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Romania competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 157 competitors, 103 men and 54 women, took part in 92 events in 11 sports.^[1]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Nadia Comăneci	Artistic gymnastics	Women's All-Around Individual	July 21
Gold	Nadia Comăneci	Artistic gymnastics	Women's Uneven Bars	July 22
Gold	Nadia Comăneci	Artistic gymnastics	Women's Balance Beam	July 22
Gold	Vasile Dîba	Canoeing	Men's K-1 500 metres	July 30
Silver	Simion Cuţov	Boxing	Men's Lightweight	July 31
Silver	Mircea Şimon	Boxing	Men's Heavyweight	July 31
Silver	Gheorghe Danilov and Gheorghe Simionov	Canoeing	Men's C-2 1000 Metres	July 31
Silver	Teodora Ungureanu	Artistic gymnastics	Women's Uneven Bars	July 19
Silver	Teodora Ungureanu, Anca Grigoraș, Gabriela Trușcă, Nadia Comăneci, Mariana Constantin, and Georgeta Gabor	Artistic gymnastics	Women's Artistic Team All-Around	July 19
Silver	Gheorghe Berceanu	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 48	July 24
Silver	Constantin Tudosie, Radu Voina, Nicolae Munteanu, Cornel Penu, Werner Stöckl, Roland Gunesch, Gabriel Kicsid, Ghiţă Licu, Alexandru Fölker, Cristian Gațu, Mircea Grabovschi, Ştefan Birtalan, Adrian Cosma, and Cezar Drăgăniṭă	Handball	Men's Handball	July 28
Silver	Nicu Gingă	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg	July 24
Silver	Ștefan Rusu	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 68 kg	July 24
Bronze	Gheorghe Megelea	Athletics	Men's Javelin Throw	July 26
Bronze	Victor Zilberman	Boxing	Men's Welterweight	July 31
Bronze	Alec Năstac	Boxing	Men's Middleweight	July 31
Bronze	Costică Dafinoiu	Boxing	Men's Light Heavyweight	July 31
Bronze	Vasile Dîba	Canoeing	Men's K-1 1000 metres	July 31
Bronze	Policarp Malîhin and Larion Serghei	Canoeing	Men's K-2 500 Metres	July 30
Bronze	Alexandru Nilca, Ioan Pop, Dan Irimiciuc, Cornel Marin, and Marin Mustață	Fencing	Men's team sabre	July 27
Bronze	Dan Grecu	Artistic Gymnastics	Men's rings	July 23
Bronze	Teodora Ungureanu	Artistic Gymnastic	Women's Balance Beam	July 22
Bronze	Nadia Comăneci	Artistic Gymnastics	Women's Floor	July 22
Bronze	Ioana Tudoran, Felicia Afrăsiloaie, Elena Giurcă, and Maria Micșa	Rowing	Women's Quadruple Skulls	July 24
Bronze	Roman Codreanu	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg	July 24
Bronze	Stelică Morcov	Wrestling	Men's Freestyle 90 kg	July 31
Bronze	Ladislau Simon	Wrestling	Men's Freestyle +100 kg	July 31

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Athletics	0	0	1	1
Boxing	0	2	3	5
Canoeing	1	1	2	4
Fencing	0	0	1	1
Gymnastics	3	2	3	8
Handball	0	1	0	1
Rowing	0	0	1	1
Wrestling	0	3	3	6
Total	4	9	14	27

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	1	7	11	19
Female	3	2	3	8
Total	4	9	14	27

Gold

Nadia Comăneci — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
Nadia Comăneci — Gymnastics, Women's Asymmetrical Bars
Nadia Comăneci — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
Vasile Dîba — Canoeing, Men's K1 500m Kayak Singles

Silver

Simion Cuţov — Boxing, Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)
Mircea Şimon — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
Gheorghe Danilov and Gheorghe Simionov — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000m Canadian Pairs
Teodora Ungureanu — Gymnastics, Women's Asymmetrical Bars
Teodora Ungureanu, Anca Grigoraș, Gabriela Trușcă, Nadia Comăneci, Mariana Constantin, and Georgeta Gabor — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises
Constantin Tudosie, Radu Voina, Nicolae Munteanu, Cornel Penu, Werner Stöckl, Roland Gunesch, Gabriel Kicsid, Ghiţă Licu, Alexandru Fölker, Cristian Gațu, Mircea Grabovschi, Ştefan Birtalan, Adrian Cosma, and Cezar Drăgăniṭă — Handball, Men's Team Competition
Gheorghe Berceanu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Flyweight
Nicu Ginga — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight
Ștefan Rusu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight

Bronze

Gheorghe Megelea — Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw
Victor Zilberman — Boxing, Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)
Alec Năstac — Boxing, Men's Middleweight (– 75 kg)
Kostica Dafinoiu — Boxing, Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
Vasile Dîba — Canoeing, Men's K1 1000m Kayak Singles
Policarp Malîhin and Larion Serghei — Canoeing, Men's K2 500m Kayak Pairs
Alexandru Nilca, Ioan Pop, Dan Irimiciuc, Corneliu Marin, and Marin Mustata — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team Competition
Danuţ Grecu — Gymnastics, Men's Rings
Teodora Ungureanu — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
Nadia Comăneci — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises
Ioana Tudoran, Felicia Afrăsiloaie, Elena Giurcă, and Maria Micșa — Rowing, Women's Coxed Quadruple Sculls
Roman Codreanu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight
Stelica Morcov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light Heavyweight
Ladislau Simon — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Super Heavyweight

Athletics

Men's 10.000 metres

Ilie Floroiu

Heat — 28:23.40
Final — 27:59.93 (→ 5th place)

Men's Discus Throw

Iosif Nagy

Qualification — 57.28m (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw

Éva Ráduly-Zörgő

Qualification — 55.34 m
Final — 55.60 m (→ 11th place)

Boxing

Men's Light Flyweight (– 48 kg)

Remus Cosma

1st Round — Lost to Payao Pooltarat (Thailand), 1-4

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

Faredin Ibrahim lost to Gu Yong Jo (North Korea) 1-4

Men's Featherweight (57 kg)

Gheorghe Ciochină def. Jackson Ouma (Kenya) WO,def. René Weller (West Germany) 4-1, lost to Richard Nowakowski (East Germany) KO 3rd round

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

Simion Cuțov def. Silvester Mittee (Great Britain) RSCH 3rd round, def. Nelson Calzadilla (Venezuela) 5-0,def. Ove Lundby (Sweden) 5-0,def. Vasili Solomin (Soviet Union) 5-0, lost to Howard Davis (USA) 0-5 (→ Silver Medal)

Men's Light Welterweight (63.5 kg)

Calistrat Cuțov def. Jean-Claude Ruiz (France) 5-0, def. Sjamsul Hanrahap (Indonesia) 5-0, lost to Vladimir Kolev (Bulgaria) (0-5)

Men's Welterweight (67 kg)

Victor Zilberman def. Amon Kotey (Ghana) WO, def. Colin Jones (Great Britain)5-0, def. Carlos Santos (Puerto Rico) 3-2, lost to Jochen Bachfeld (East Germany) 2-3 (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg)

Vasile Didea def. Michael Prevost (Canada) disq.3rd round, def. Naiden Stanchev (Bulgaria) 3-2, lost to Tadija Kačar (Yugoslavia) 0-5

Men's Middleweight (71 kg)

Alec Năstac def. Philip Mc. Elwaine (Australia) 3-2, def. Fernando Martins (Brazil) 3-2, lost to Michael Spinks (USA) WO (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's Light Heavyweight (81 kg)

Costică Dafinoiu def. Robert Nixon (Guyana) WO, def. Robert Burgess (Bermuda) 5-0, lost to Sixto Soria (Cuba) abandon 1st round (→ Bronze Medal)

Men's Heavyweight (+81 kg)

Mircea Simon def. Trevor Berbick (Jamaica) 5-0, def. Atanas Suvandjiev (Bulgaria) 4-1, def. Clarence Hill (Bermuda) 5-0, lost to Teofilo Stevenson (Cuba) abandon 3rd round (→ Silver Medal)

Canoeing

Fencing

18 fencers, 13 men and 5 women, represented Romania in 1976.

Men's foil

Men's team foil

Petru Kuki, Mihai Țiu, Tudor Petruș, Petrică Buricea

Men's épée

Men's team épée

Ioan Popa, Anton Pongratz, Nicolae Iorgu, Paul Szabo

Men's sabre

Men's team sabre

Dan Irimiciuc, Ioan Pop, Marin Mustață, Cornel Marin, Alexandru Nilca

Women's foil

Women's team foil

Ileana Gyulai-Drîmbă-Jenei, Marcela Moldovan-Zsak, Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu, Magdalena Bartoș

Gymnastics

Handball

-;Women's Team Competition

Championship Pool

Lost to East Germany (12-18)
Lost to Soviet Union (8-14)
Defeated Japan (21-20)
Defeated Canada (17-11)
Lost to Hungary (15-20)→ 4th place

Team Roster

-;Men's Team Competition

Preliminary Pool, Group B

Defeated Hungary (23-18)
Defeated USA (32-19)
Drew with Czechoslovakia (19-19)
Defeated Poland (17-15)

Final Round, Gold Medal Match

Lost to Soviet Union (15-19)(→ Silver Medal)

Team Roster

Rowing

Shooting

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

Team Roster

Weightlifting

Wrestling

Greco-Roman Wrestling

48 kg

Gheorghe Berceanu def. Moriwaki(Japan) 4-3, def. Zajączkowski (Poland) fall 0:20, def. Kawasaki (Canada) 14-1, def. Hinz (East Germany) fall 2:08, def. Angelov (Bulgaria) 4-3, lost to Shumakov (Soviet Union) 6-10 (→ Silver Medal)

52 kg

Nicu Gingă def. Kirov (Bulgaria) injury 5:11, lost to Konstantinov (Soviet Union) 11-17, def. Kraus (West Germany) disq. 7:08, def. Caltabiano (Italy) 11-1, def. Hirayama (Japan) disq. 5:45 (→ Silver Medal)

57 kg

Mihai Boțilă def. Józef Lipień (Poland) disq., def. Ahn Han Yung (South Korea) 8-0, lost to Mustafin (Soviet Union) 6-14, def. Krysta (Czechoslovakia) 12-0, lost to Pertti Ukkola (Finland) disq. 5:19 →5th place

62 kg

Ion Păun def. Malmkvist (Sweden) fall 5:40, def. Choi Kyung Soo (South Korea) fall 5:53, def. Hjelt (Finland) 11-4, lost to Miyahara (Japan) 2-6, lost to Réczi (Hungary) injury 1:25 →5th place

68 kg

Ștefan Rusu def. Andrzej Supron (Poland) 13-1, def. Kim Halmyung (South Korea) fall 2:49, def. Kobayashi (Japan) disq. 3:45, lost to Suren Nalbandyan (Soviet Union) 3-5, def. Wehling (East Germany) disq. 7:45 (→ Silver Medal)

74 kg

Gheorghe Ciobotaru drew with Karlsson (Sweden) double disqualification, def. Nagatomo (Japan) disq. 6:50,def. Kiss (Austria) fall 5:41, lost to Bykov (Soviet Union) 6-7 →6th place

82 kg

Ion Enache def. Cummings (Canada) injury 7:40, def. Andersson (Sweden) 6-4, drew with Kolev (Bulgaria) 8-8, lost to Momir Petković (Yugoslavia) 2-3 →7th place

90 kg

Petre Dicu lost to Sellyei (Hungary) 2-7, lost to Rezantsev (Soviet Union) fall 2:51

100 kg

Nicolae Martinescu lost to Nikolay Balboshin (Soviet Union) fall 1:23, def. N'diaye (Senegal) fall 2:18, lost to Goranov (Bulgaria) 5:51 →7th place

+100 kg

Roman Codreanu def. Ronnyai (Hungary) disq. 7:22, def. Robertsson (Sweden) disq. 3:59, def. Wolff (West Germany) disq. 5:15, def. Lee (USA) disq. 7:30, lost to Aleksandr Kolchinski (Soviet Union) fall 0:37, lost to Tomov (Bulgaria) injury 0:32 (→ Bronze Medal)