Romania at the 1976 Summer Olympics

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

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

• Petru Kuki
• Mihai Țiu
• Tudor Petruș

Men's team foil

• Petru Kuki, Mihai Țiu, Tudor Petruș, Petrică Buricea

Men's épée

• Nicolae Iorgu
• Paul Szabo
• Anton Pongratz

Men's team épée

• Ioan Popa, Anton Pongratz, Nicolae Iorgu, Paul Szabo

Men's sabre

• Ioan Pop
• Dan Irimiciuc
• Cornel Marin

Men's team sabre

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

Women's foil

• Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic
• Magdalena Bartoș
• Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu

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

• Iuliana Hobincu
• Elisabeta Ionescu
• Rozalia Șooș
• Simona Arghir
• Maria Lackovics
• Georgeta Lăcusta
• Doina Furcoi
• Niculina Sasu
• Cristina Petrovici
• Constantina Pițigoi
• Doina Cojocaru
• Magdalena Miklos
• Maria Bosi
• Viorica Ionică

-;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

• Cornel Penu
• Nicolae Munteanu
• Gabriel Kicsid
• Ghiţă Licu
• Cezar Drăgăniță
• Cristian Gațu
• Radu Voina
• Roland Gunesch
• Alexandru Folker
• Ștefan Birtalan
• Adrian Cosma
• Constantin Tudosie
• Werner Stockl
• Mircea Grabovschi

Rowing

Shooting

Water polo

Men's Team Competition

• Team Roster

• Adrian Nastasiu
• Adrian Schervan
• Claudiu Ioan Rusu
• Corneliu Rusu
• Dinu Popescu
• Doru Spînu
• Florin Slâvei
• Gheorghe Zamfirescu
• Ilie Slâvei
• Liviu Râducanu
• Viorel Rus

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)

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