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Romania at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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IOC code
  
ROU

3
  
1

Competitors
  
98 in 13 sports

Romania at the 1960 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee

Website
  
www.cosr.ro (Romanian) (English) (French)

Medals Ranked 11th
  
Gold Silver Bronze Total 3 1 6 10

Romania competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. 98 competitors, 82 men and 16 women, took part in 65 events in 13 sports.

Contents

Gold

  • Iolanda Balaş — Athletics, Women's High Jump
  • Ion Dumitrescu — Shooting, Men's Trap
  • Dumitru Pârvulescu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Flyweight
  • Silver

  • Ion Cernea — Wrestling, Men's Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight
  • Bronze

  • Lia Manoliu — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
  • Ion Monea — Boxing, Men's Middleweight (—75 kg)
  • Leon Rotman — Canoeing, Men's C-1 1000m
  • Maria Vicol — Fencing, Women's Individual Foil
  • Atanasia Ionescu, Sonia Iovan, Elena Leuşteanu, Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă, Elena Niculescu, Uta Poreceanu — Gymnastics, Women's Team All-Around
  • Ion Ţăranu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight
  • Cycling

    Six cyclists, all males, represented Romania in 1960.

    Individual road race
  • Ion Cosma
  • Gheorghe Calcişcă
  • Gabriel Moiceanu
  • Aurel Şelaru
  • Team time trial
  • Ion Cosma
  • Gabriel Moiceanu
  • Aurel Şelaru
  • Ludovic Zanoni
  • 1000m time trial
  • Ion Ioniţă
  • Fencing

    15 fencers, 11 men and 4 women, represented Romania in 1960.

    Men's foil
  • Tănase Mureșanu
  • Attila Csipler
  • Ion Drîmbă
  • Men's team foil
  • Iosif Szilaghi, Sorin Poenaru, Attila Csipler, Tănase Mureșanu
  • Men's épée
  • Adalbert Gurath, Jr.
  • Men's sabre
  • Ladislau Rohony
  • Emeric Arus
  • Dumitru Mustață
  • Men's team sabre
  • Dumitru Mustață, Cornel Pelmuș, Ion Santo, Ladislau Rohony, Emeric Arus
  • Women's foil
  • Maria Vicol
  • Olga Orban-Szabo
  • Ecaterina Orb-Lazăr
  • Women's team foil
  • Ecaterina Orb-Lazăr, Eugenia Mateianu, Olga Orban-Szabo, Maria Vicol
  • Shooting

    Nine shooters represented Romania in 1960. Ion Dumitrescu won the gold medal in the trap event.

    25 m pistol
  • Ştefan Petrescu
  • Gavril Maghiar
  • 50 m pistol
  • Gavril Maghiar
  • Ilie Niţu
  • 300 m rifle, three positions
  • Constantin Antonescu
  • Marin Ferecatu
  • 50 m rifle, three positions
  • Iosif Sîrbu
  • Nicolae Rotaru
  • 50 m rifle, prone
  • Iosif Sîrbu
  • Nicolae Rotaru
  • Trap
  • Ion Dumitrescu
  • Gheorghe Enache
  • References

    Romania at the 1960 Summer Olympics Wikipedia


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