Romania at the Olympics

Romania first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a single participant. The National Olympic Committee for Romania is the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee, and was created and recognized in 1914. The nation first sent a team to compete at the Games in 1924, and has only missed two editions each of the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then. Notably, Romania was the lone Eastern Bloc nation to participate at the 1984 Summer Olympics, which the other nations boycotted. That was also Romania's most successful Olympic Games: they won 20 gold medals and 53 medals in total.

Gymnastics is Romania's top medal-producing sport. Romania has won the third highest total number of medals (after Hungary, and Poland) of nations that have never hosted the Games.

History

From the 1972 Summer Olympics through the 2012 Summer Olympics, Romania had qualified a women's team for the gymnastics team all-around. They had won medals at every Olympics from the 1976 Summer Olympics through to the 2012 Summer Games. However, the women's team failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics, ending the 40-year run in medals, and the 44-year run of having a team at the Olympics.^[1][2][3]

At the winter Olympics Romania has won only one medal, at the 1968 Winter Olympics with two-man bobsleigh team led by Ion Panțuru and Nicolae Neagoe.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games Games Athletes  Gold  Silver  Bronze Total Rank 1900 Paris 1 0 0 0 0 – 1904–1920 did not participate 1924 Paris 35 0 0 1 1 23 1928 Amsterdam 21 0 0 0 0 – 1932 Los Angeles did not participate 1936 Berlin 54 0 1 0 1 25 1948 London did not participate 1952 Helsinki 114 1 1 2 4 23 1956 Melbourne 44 5 3 5 13 9 1960 Rome 98 3 1 6 10 11 1964 Tokyo 138 2 4 6 12 14 1968 Mexico City 82 4 6 5 15 12 1972 Munich 159 3 6 7 16 13 1976 Montreal 157 4 9 14 27 9 1980 Moscow 228 6 6 13 25 7 1984 Los Angeles 124 20 16 17 53 2 1988 Seoul 68 7 11 6 24 8 1992 Barcelona 172 4 6 8 18 14 1996 Atlanta 165 4 7 9 20 14 2000 Sydney 145 11 6 9 26 11 2004 Athens 108 8 5 6 19 14 2008 Beijing 102 4 1 4 9 17 2012 London 103 2 4 1 7 31 2016 Rio de Janeiro 97 1 1 2 4 47 2020 Tokyo 101 1 3 0 4 46 2024 Paris future event 2028 Los Angeles 2032 Brisbane Total 90 97 121 308 17

Medals by Winter Games Games Athletes  Gold  Silver  Bronze Total Rank 1928 St. Moritz 10 0 0 0 0 – 1932 Lake Placid 4 0 0 0 0 – 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 15 0 0 0 0 – 1948 St. Moritz 7 0 0 0 0 – 1952 Oslo 16 0 0 0 0 – 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 19 0 0 0 0 – 1960 Squaw Valley did not participate 1964 Innsbruck 27 0 0 0 0 – 1968 Grenoble 30 0 0 1 1 15 1972 Sapporo 13 0 0 0 0 – 1976 Innsbruck 32 0 0 0 0 – 1980 Lake Placid 35 0 0 0 0 – 1984 Sarajevo 19 0 0 0 0 – 1988 Calgary 11 0 0 0 0 – 1992 Albertville 23 0 0 0 0 – 1994 Lillehammer 23 0 0 0 0 – 1998 Nagano 16 0 0 0 0 – 2002 Salt Lake City 21 0 0 0 0 – 2006 Turin 25 0 0 0 0 – 2010 Vancouver 29 0 0 0 0 – 2014 Sochi 24 0 0 0 0 – 2018 Pyeongchang 27 0 0 0 0 – 2022 Beijing 21 0 0 0 0 - 2026 Milan–Cortina future event Total 0 0 1 1 47

Medals by summer sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Volleyball 0 0 1 1 Totals (16 entries) 90 97 121 308

Medals by winter sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Bobsleigh 0 0 1 1 Totals (1 entries) 0 0 1 1

Medalists

Summer medallists with minimum 2 gold

Athlete	Sport	Years	Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Nadia Comăneci	Gymnastics	1976–1980	F	5	3	1	9
Elisabeta Lipă	Rowing	1984–2004	F	5	2	1	8
Georgeta Damian	Rowing	2000–2008	F	5	0	1	6
Ivan Patzaichin	Canoeing	1968–1984	M	4	3	0	7
Doina Ignat	Rowing	1992–2008	F	4	1	1	6
Ecaterina Szabo	Gymnastics	1984	F	4	1	0	5
Viorica Susanu	Rowing	2000–2008	F	4	0	1	5
Daniela Silivaș	Gymnastics	1988	F	3	2	1	6
Simona Amânar	Gymnastics	1996–2000	F	3	1	3	7
Constanța Burcică	Rowing	1992–2008	F	3	1	1	5
Elena Georgescu	Rowing	1992–2008	F	3	1	1	5
Cătălina Ponor	Gymnastics	2004–2012	F	3	1	1	5
Liliana Gafencu	Rowing	1996–2004	F	3	0	0	3
Veronica Cochela	Rowing	1988–2000	F	2	3	1	6
Lavinia Miloșovici	Gymnastics	1992–1996	F	2	1	3	6
Rodica Arba	Rowing	1980–1988	F	2	1	1	4
Olga Homeghi	Rowing	1980–1988	F	2	1	1	4
Toma Simionov	Canoeing	1980–1984	M	2	1	0	3
Ioana Olteanu	Rowing	1992–2000	F	2	1	0	3
Sandra Izbașa	Gymnastics	2008–2012	F	2	0	2	4
Leon Rotman	Canoeing	1956–1960	M	2	0	1	3
Simona Păucă	Gymnastics	1984	F	2	0	1	3
Iolanda Balaș	Athletics	1960–1964	F	2	0	0	2
Marioara Popescu	Rowing	1984–1996	F	2	0	0	2
Diana Mocanu	Swimming	2000	F	2	0	0	2
Angela Alupei	Rowing	2000–2004	F	2	0	0	2
Monica Roșu	Gymnastics	2004	F	2	0	0	2

Winter medallists

Athlete	Sport	Years	Gender	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Ion Panțuru	Bobsleigh	1968	M	0	0	1	1
Nicolae Neagoe	Bobsleigh	1968	M	0	0	1	1

Summary by sport

Shooting

Romania's only appearance before 1924 was a single shooter at the 1900 Games, when Gheorghe Plagino placed 13th in the trap.

See also

• List of flag bearers for Romania at the Olympics
• Category:Olympic competitors for Romania
• Romania at the Paralympics
• Sport in Romania

References

External links

• "Romania". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
• "Romania". Olympedia.com.
• "Olympic Analytics/ROU". olympanalyt.com.