Romania competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. 124 competitors, 71 men and 53 women, took part in 86 events in 13 sports. Notably, Romania was the only Eastern Bloc nation to participate at these Games; all others followed the Soviet Union's boycott of the Games. The Romanian athletes were greeted with warm applause as they entered the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum during the opening ceremony, in part an affirmation of the nation's defiance of the boycott. The Romanian olympic team was phenomenally successful at the games for a modestly populated nation, ultimately placing just under the United States in the gold medal tally.
Doina Melinte — Athletics, Women's 800 metres
Maricica Puică — Athletics, Women's 3000 metres
Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
Ivan Patzaichin and Toma Simionov — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000m Canadian Pairs
Agafia Constantin-Buhaev, Nastasia Ionescu, Tecla Marinescu-Borcanca and Maria Stefan-Mihoreanu — Canoeing, Women's K4 500m Kayak Fours
Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault
Simona Păucă and Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises
Lavinia Agache, Laura Cutina, Cristina Elena Grigoraș, Simona Păucă, Mihaela Stanulet, and Ecaterina Szabo — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises
Petru Iosub and Valer Toma — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pairs
Valeria Răcilă — Rowing, Women's Single Sculls
Elisabeta Lipă and Marioara Popescu — Rowing, Women's Double Sculls
Ioana Badea, Sofia Corban, Ekaterina Oancia, Anisoara Sorohan, and Maricica Taran — Rowing, Women's Coxed Quadruple Sculls
Rodica Arba and Elena Horvat — Rowing, Women's Coxless Pairs
Chira Apostol, Maria Tănasă-Fricioiu, Olga Homeghi, Viorica Ioja, and Florica Lavric — Rowing, Women's Coxed Fours
Petre Becheru — Weightlifting, Men's Light Heavyweight (82½ kg)
Nicu Vlad — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight (90 kg)
Ion Draica — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Middleweight
Vasile Andrei — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight
Doina Melinte — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres
Valeria Ionescu — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
Mihaela Loghin — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
Ivan Patzaichin and Toma Simionov — Canoeing, Men's C2 500m Canadian Pairs
Aurora Dan, Rozalia Oros, Elisabeta Tufan-Guzganu, Monika Weber, and Marcela Zsak — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition
Ekaterina Szabó — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
Doina Staiculescu — Gymnastics, Women's Rhythmic All-Around
Dimitrie Popescu, Dumitru Răducanu and Vasile Tomoiagă — Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs
Mihaela Armășescu, Adriana Bazon-Chelariu, Camelia Diaconescu, Viorica Ioja, Aneta Mihaly, Aurora Plesca, Lucia Sauca, Doina Liliana Snep-Balan and Marioara Trașcă — Rowing, Women's Eights
Corneliu Ion — Shooting, Men's Rapid-Fire Pistol
Gelu Radu — Weightlifting, Men's Featherweight (60 kg)
Andrej Socaci — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight (67½ kg)
Petre Dumitru — Weightlifting, Men's Middle Heavyweight (90 kg)
Vasile Groapa — Weightlifting, Men's First Heavyweight (100 kg)
Stefan Tasnadi — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (110 kg)
Ilie Matei — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight
Fița Lovin — Athletics, Women's 800 metres
Maricica Puică — Athletics, Women's 1500 metres
Cristieana Cojocaru — Athletics, Women's 400m Hurdles
Florența Crăciunescu — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
Mircea Fulger — Boxing, Men's Light Welterweight
Costicǎ Olaru — Canoeing, Men's C1 500m Canadian Singles
Alexandru Chiculiță, Corneliu Marin, Marin Mustață, Ion Pop, and Vilmoș Szabo — Fencing, Men's Sabre Team Competition
Simona Păucă — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual
Lavinia Agache — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault
Mircea Bedivan, Dumitru Berbece, Iosif Boroș, Alexandru Buligan, Gheorghe Covaciu, Gheorghe Dogărescu, Marian Dumitru, Cornel Durău, Alexander Fölker, Nicolae Munteanu, Vasile Oprea, Adrian Simion, Vasile Stîngă, Neculai Vasilcă, and Maricel Voinea — Handball, Men's Team Competition
Mircea Frățică — Judo, Men's Half Middleweight (78 kg)
Mihai Cioc — Judo, Men's Open Class
Anca Pătrășcoiu — Swimming, Women's 200m Backstroke
Dragomir Cioroslan — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight (75 kg)
Ștefan Rusu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Welterweight
Victor Dolipschi — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight
Vasile Pușcașu — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight (100 kg)
Women's 1,500 metres
Doina Melinte
Heat — 4:10.48
Final — 4:03.76 (→ Silver Medal)
Maricica Puică
Heat — 4:05.30
Final — 4:04.15 (→ Bronze Medal)
Fița Lovin
Heat — 4:10.58
Final — 4:09.11 (→ 9th place)
Women's 3,000 metres
Maricica Puică
Heat — 8:43.32
Final — 8:35.96 (→ Gold Medal)
Women's 400m Hurdles
Cristieana Cojocaru
Heat — 56.94
Semifinal — 55.24
Final — 55.41 (→ Bronze Medal)
Women's High Jump
Niculina Vasile
Qualification — 1.90m
Final — 1.85m (→ 11th place)
Women's Long Jump
Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu
Qualification — 6.69 m
Final — 6.96 m (→ Gold Medal)
Valy Ionescu
Qualification — 6.60 m
Final — 6.81 m (→ Silver Medal)
Women's Discus Throw
Florența Crăciunescu
Qualification — 57.84m
Final — 63.64m (→ Bronze Medal)
Women's Shot Put
Mihaela Loghin
Final — 20.47 m (→ Silver Medal)
Florența Crăciunescu
Final — 17.23 m (→ 8th place)
Men's Featherweight (– 57 kg)
Nicolae Talpos
First Round — Bye
Second Round — Lost to Meldrick Taylor (United States), 0:5
Men's Lightweight (– 60 kg)
Viorel Ioana
First Round — Lost to Renato Cornett (Australia), 1:4
Men's Light Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)
Mircea Fulger → Bronze Medal
First Round — Bye
Second Round — Defeated Jean Duarte (France), RSC-1
Third Round — Defeated Stefan Sjøstrand (SWE), 5:0
Quarterfinals — Defeated Lofti Belkhir (Tunisia), 5:0
Semifinals — Lost to Dhawee Umponmaha (Thailand), 0:5
Men's Welterweight (– 67 kg)
Rudel Obreja
First Round — Defeated Antoine Loungoude (RCA), KO-1
Second Round — Defeated Michael Hughes (GBR), 5:0
Third Round — Lost to Mark Breland (United States), 0:5
Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)
Gheorghe Simion
First Round — Lost to Ahn Dal-Ho (South Korea), 0:5
Men's Light Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
Georgica Donici
First Round — Bye
Second Round — Defeated Sani Vea (Tonga), 5:0
Quarterfinals — Lost to Anton Josipović (Yugoslavia), 0:5
Eleven fencers, six men and five women, represented Romania in 1984.
Men's foil
Petru Kuki
Men's sabre
Marin Mustață
Ioan Pop
Cornel Marin
Men's team sabre
Marin Mustață, Ioan Pop, Alexandru Chiculiță, Cornel Marin, Vilmoș Szabo
Women's foil
Elisabeta Guzganu-Tufan
Aurora Dan
Marcela Moldovan-Zsak
Women's team foil
Aurora Dan, Monika Weber-Koszto, Rozalia Oros, Marcela Moldovan-Zsak, Elisabeta Guzganu-Tufan
Handball
Men's Team Competition
Preliminary Round (Group A)
Defeated Algeria (25-16)
Defeated Iceland (26-17)
Defeated Switzerland (23-17)
Defeated Japan (28-22)
Lost to Yugoslavia (18-19)
Bronze Medal Match
Defeated Denmark (23-19) → Bronze Medal
Team Roster
Mircea Bedivan
Dumitru Berbece
Iosif Boroș
Alexandru Buligan
Gheorghe Covaciu
Gheorghe Dogărescu
Marian Dumitru
Cornel Durău
Alexandru Fölker
Nicolae Munteanu
Vasile Oprea
Adrian Simion
Vasile Stîngă
Neculai Vasilcă
Maricel Voinea
Men
Women
Women's 100m Backstroke
Carmen Bunaciu
Heat — 1:03.79
Final — 1:03.21 (→ 4th place)
Anca Patrascoiu
Heat — 1:04.16
Final — 1:03.29 (→ 5th place)
Women's 200m Backstroke
Anca Patrascoiu
Heat — 2:16.71
Final — 2:13.29 (→ Bronze Medal)
Carmen Bunaciu
Heat — 2:16.41
Final — 2:16.15 (→ 7th place)
Women's 400m Individual Medley
Anca Patrascoiu
Heat — 5:03.97
B-Final — 5:05.53 (→ 16th place)
