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Romania at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Romania at the 2000 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)
inSydney
Competitors	145 (71 men and 74 women) in 16 sports
Flag bearer	Elisabeta Oleniuc-Lipă
Medals Ranked 11th	Gold 11 Silver 6 Bronze 9 Total 26
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Romania competed at the 2000 Summer OlympicsinSydney, Australia. 145 competitors, 71 men and 74 women, took part in 116 events in 16 sports.^[1] At the Games, there was some controversy when gymnast Andreea Răducan was stripped of her individual all-around gold medal after testing positive for a stimulant. Răducan had taken cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine given to her by a team doctor.^[2]

Medalists[edit]

These games were Romania's best showing, both in number of gold medals and total medals won at a non-boycotted games.

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Gabriela Szabo Athletics Women's 5000 m September 25  Gold Florin Popescu, Mitică Pricop Canoeing Men's C-2 1000 m September 30  Gold Mihai Covaliu Fencing Men's sabre September 21  Gold Marius Urzică Gymnastics Men's pommel horse September 24  Gold Simona Amânar[a] Gymnastics Women's artistic individual all-around September 21  Gold Simona Amânar, Loredana Boboc, Andreea Isărescu, Maria Olaru, Claudia Presăcan, Andreea Răducan Gymnastics Women's artistic team all-around September 19  Gold Angela Alupei, Constanța Burcică Rowing Women's lightweight double sculls September 24  Gold Georgeta Damian, Doina Ignat Rowing Women's coxless pair September 23  Gold Veronica Cochela, Georgeta Damian, Maria Magdalena Dumitrache, Liliana Gafencu, Elena Georgescu, Doina Ignat, Elisabeta Lipă, Ioana Olteanu, Viorica Susanu Rowing Women's eight September 24  Gold Diana Mocanu Swimming Women's 100 metre backstroke September 18  Gold Women's 200 metre backstroke September 22  Silver Violeta Beclea Athletics Women's 1500 m September 28  Silver Lidia Șimon Athletics Women's marathon September 24  Silver Marian Simion Boxing Light Middleweight October 1  Silver Maria Olaru[a] Gymnastics Women's artistic individual all-around September 21  Silver Andreea Răducan Gymnastics Women's vault September 24  Silver Beatrice Căslaru Swimming Women's 200 m individual medley September 19  Bronze Gabriela Szabo Athletics Women's 1500 m September 28  Bronze Oana Pantelimon Athletics Women's high jump September 30  Bronze Dorel Simion Boxing Welterweight September 30  Bronze Florin Popescu, Mitică Pricop Canoeing Men's C-2 500 m October 1  Bronze Raluca Ioniță, Mariana Limbău, Elena Radu, Sanda Toma Canoeing Women's K-4 500 m September 30  Bronze Simona Amânar Gymnastics Women's floor September 25  Bronze Simona Richter Judo Women's 78 kg September 21  Bronze Iulian Raicea Shooting Men's 25 m rapid fire pistol September 21  Bronze Beatrice Căslaru Swimming Women's 400 m individual medley September 16

Medals by sport Sport Total Athletics 1 2 2 5 Boxing 0 1 1 2 Canoeing 1 0 2 3 Fencing 1 0 0 1 Gymnastics 3 2 1 6 Judo 0 0 1 1 Rowing 3 0 0 3 Shooting 0 0 1 1 Swimming 2 1 1 4 Total 11 6 9 26 Medals by gender Gender Total Male 3 1 3 7 Female 8 5 6 19 Total 11 6 9 26

Athletics[edit]

Men

Track & road events

Field events

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Otilia Silvia Ruicu	400 m	52.65	27Q	52.28	22	did not advance
Elena Iagăr	800 m	2:07.56	30	did not advance
Elena Iagăr	1500 m	4:11.35	21	—		4:14.75	23	did not advance
Gabriela Szabo		4:08.33	3Q	—		4:07.38	11	4:05.27
Violeta Szekely		4:10.18	11	—		4:06.60	7Q	4:05.15
Gabriela Szabo	5000 m	15:08.36	2Q	—				14:40.79 OR
Ionela Târlea	400 metres hurdles	56.40	16q	—		54.70	5q	54.35	6
Anuța Cătună	Marathon	—						DNF
Alina Gherasim		—						2:36:16	29
Lidia Șimon		—						2:23:22
Norica Câmpean	20 km walk	—						1:31:50	6
Ana Maria Groza		—						1:33:38	13

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Oana Pantelimon	High jump	1.94	12Q	1.99
Monica Iagăr		1.94	10Q	1.93	9
Cristina Elena Nicolau	Triple jump	14.14	10q	14.17	6
Nicoleta Grasu	Discus throw	58.57	19	did not advance
Ana Mirela Țermure	Javelin throw	56.31	22	did not advance
Felicia Țilea-Moldovan		58.75	15	did not advance

Combined events – Heptathlon

Boxing[edit]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Marian Velicu	Light Flyweight	Ballioğlu (TUR) W 20–8	Romero (CUB) L RSC	did not advance
Bogdan Dobrescu	Flyweight	Yang X (CHN) W 12–3	Mantilla (CUB) L RSC	did not advance
George Olteanu	Bantamweight	Mikaelyan (GRE) W 7–2	Morales (MEX) W RSC	Vinson (USA) L 19–26	did not advance
Ovidiu Bobîrnat	Featherweight	Sattarkhanov (KAZ) L 5–14	did not advance
Gheorghe Lungu	Lightweight	Tebebu (ETH) W 15–3	Bejarano (MEX) L 11–14	did not advance
Dorel Simion	Welterweight	Tsie (LES) W RSC	Guerra (CUB) W 11–7	Küchler (GER) W 26–14	Saitov (RUS) L 10–19	did not advance
Marian Simion	Light middleweight	Di Corcia (ITA) W 19–8	Zertuche (MEX) W RSC	Esther (FRA) W RSC	Thongburan (THA) W 26–16	Ibraimov (KAZ) L 23–25
Oleksandr Zubrihin	Middleweight	Kinzi (ALG) W 19–8	Kumar (IND) W 12–3	Gutiérrez (CUB) LKO	did not advance
Claudio Rîșco	Light Heavyweight	Mihaylov (UZB) L 6–15	did not advance
Constantin Onofrei	Super Heavyweight	BYE	Peter (NGR) L 14–17	did not advance

Canoeing[edit]

Sprint[edit]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Florin Huidu	C-1 500 m	1:53.076	4QS	1:53.277	4	did not advance
	C-1 1000m	3:56.770	5QS	4:03.910	5	did not advance
Florin Popescu Mitică Pricop	C-2 500 m	1:41.904	1QF	BYE		1:54.260
	C-2 1000 m	3:37.340	1QF	BYE		3:37.355
Geza Magyar	K-1 500 m	1:42.733	3QS	1:41.482	4	did not advance
Marian Băban	K-1 1000 m	3:45.127	5QS	3:47.215	7	did not advance
Vasile Curuzan Romică Șerban	K-2 500 m	1:33.184	4QS	1:32.975	6	did not advance
Vasile Curuzan Sorin Petcu Romică Șerban Marian Sîrbu	K-4 1000 m	3:05.341	5QS	3:05.101	6	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sanda Toma	K-1 500 m	1:54.738	4QS	1:56.310	5	did not advance
Raluca Ioniță Mariana Limbău	K-2 500 m	1:43.204	4QS	BYE		1:59.264	4
Raluca Ioniță Mariana Limbău Elena Radu Sanda Toma	K-4 500 m	1:35.935	3QF	BYE		1:37.010

Qualification Legend: 'R = Qualify to repechage; QS = Qualify to semi-final; QF = Qualify directly to final

Diving[edit]

Men

Women

Fencing[edit]

Five fencers, three men and two women, represented Romania in 2000.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mihai Covaliu	Men's sabre	Bye	Jaskot (POL) W 15–12	Lapkes (BLR) W 15–11	Tuoya (FRA) W 15–12	Kothny (GER) W 15–12	Gourdain (FRA) W 15–12
Victor Găureanu		Bye	Tarantino (ITA) W 15–10	Pilett (FRA) W 15–10	Gourdain (FRA) L 14–15	did not advance
Florin Lupeică		Maya (CUB) W 15–10	Köves (HUN) L 14–15	did not advance
Mihai Covaliu Victor Găureanu Florin Lupeică	Men's team sabre	—			Poland (POL) W 45-20	Russia (RUS) L 28-45	Germany (GER) L 27-45	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Laura Cârlescu-Badea	Women's foil	Bye	Dussu (CUB) W 15–6	Jie (CHN) W 15–7	Bianchedi (ITA) W 15–4	Vezzali (ITA) L 8–15	Trillini (ITA) L 9–15	4
Reka Zsofia Lazăr-Szabo		Bye	Mahoney (CAN) W 15–10	Marsh (USA) W 15–7	Vezzali (ITA) L 8–9	did not advance

Gymnastics[edit]

Men's artistic[edit]

Team

Individual events

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB
Marian Drăgulescu	All-around	9.637	9.300	9.562	9.562	9.487	9.550	57.098	13
Rareş Orzaţa		9.312	9.612	9.637	9.662	9.462	9.700	57.385	11
Ioan Suciu		8.712	9.725	9.325	9.212	9.400	9.412	55.786	28
Marian Drăgulescu	Floor	9.712	—					9.712	6
Marius Urzică	Pommel horse	—	9.862	—				9.862
	Parallel bars	—				8.887	—	8.887	8

Women's artistic[edit]

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F			V	UB	BB	F
Simona Amânar	Team	9.743 Q	9.562	9.675	9.737 Q	38.717	2Q	9.712	9.550	9.837	9.762	38.861	—
Loredana Boboc		9.250	9.550	9.675	9.337	37.812	17	9.400	9.475	9.600	9.700	38.175
Andreea Isărescu		9.193	9.625	—		18.818	86	9.575	9.687	—	9.600	28.862
Maria Olaru		9.625	9.225	9.787 Q	9.575	38.212	10Q	9.581	9.525	9.787	9.687	38.580
Claudia Presăcan		—		9.775 Q	8.925	18.700	88	—		9.450	—	9.450
Andreea Răducan		9.743 Q	9.562	9.675	9.737 Q	38.717	2Q	9.712	9.550	9.837	9.762	38.861
Total		38.343	38.287	38.912	38.449	153.991	2Q	38.461	38.237	38.986	38.924	154.608

Individual events

Athlete	Event	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F
Simona Amânar	All-around	9.656	9.512	9.662	9.812	38.642
Maria Olaru		9.656	9.600	9.700	9.625	38.581
Andreea Răducan		Disqualified
Simona Amânar	Vault	9.537	—			9.537	6
	Floor	—			9.712	9.712
Maria Olaru	Balance beam	—		9.700	—	9.700	6
Claudia Presăcan		—		9.750	—	9.750	4
Andreea Răducan	Vault	9.693	—			9.693

Handball[edit]

• Aurelia Stoica
• Valeria Motogna-Beșe
• Cristina Vărzaru
• Cristina Dogaru-Cucuian
• Elena Napăr
• Gabriela Doina Tănaşe
• Lidia Drăgănescu
• Luminită Huţupan-Dinu
• Mihaela Ignat
• Nicoleta Alina Dobrin
• Ramona Farcău
• Steluța Luca
• Talida Tolnai
• Victorina Bora

Group A[edit]

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Points
South Korea	4	4	0	0	131	100	+31	8
Hungary	4	2	1	1	119	106	+13	5
France	4	2	0	2	90	93	-3	4
Romania	4	1	1	2	99	101	-2	3
Angola	4	0	0	4	98	137	-39	0

19 September 2000
Romania	25 – 34	South Korea
21 September 2000
Angola	25 – 35	Romania
23 September 2000
Romania	21 – 21	Hungary
25 September 2000
France	21 – 18	Romania

Quarter-finals[edit]

28 September 2000
Norway	28 – 16	Romania

5–8th place[edit]

30 September 2000
Austria	29 – 23	Romania

7th place[edit]

1 October 2000
Brazil	33 – 38	Romania

Judo[edit]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Claudiu Baștea	Men's 73kg	Nakamura (JPN) L 0010–0110	did not advance
Adrian Croitoru	Men's 90kg	Geraldino (DOM) W 0010-0001	Morozov (RUS) W 1001-0000	Huizinga (NED) L 0000-0001	—		Olson (USA) L 0001-1000	did not advance
Radu Ivan	Men's 100kg	Svirin (BLR) W 0100-0000	Jikurauli (GEO) L 0001-1001	did not advance
Gabriel Munteanu	Men's +100kg	Jakl (CZE) L 0000-1011	did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Repechage 3	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Laura Moise	Women's 48kg	Park S-J (KOR) W	Savon (CUB) L	did not advance
Ioana Maria Aluaș	Women's 52kg	Diaz (VEN) W	Liu X (CHN) L	—			Devi (IND) W	Souakri (ALG) W	Kye (PRK) L	5
Simona Richter	Women's 78kg	Bye	Cowen (GBR) W	Luna (CUB) L	—		Tong (USA) W	Lee S-y (KOR) W	Rakels (BEL) W

Modern pentathlon[edit]

Rowing[edit]

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Georgeta Damian Doina Ignat	Coxless pair	7:16.22	1Q	—				7:11.00
Veronica Cogeanu-Cochela Elisabeta Oleniuc-Lipa	Double sculls	7:08.70	1Q	—				7:05.05	5
Angela Alupei Constanța Burcica	Lightweight double sculls	7:16.65	1Q	—		6:59.85	1FA	7:02.64
Aurica Bărăscu Elena Popa Crina Violeta Serediuc Doina Spîrcu	Quadruple sculls	6:52.01	5R	6:50.34	4FB	—		6:46.78	9
Veronica Cochela Georgeta Damian Maria Dumitrache Liliana Gafencu Elena Georgescu Doina Ignat Elisabeta Lipă Ioana Olteanu Viorica Susanu	Eight	6:06.66	1Q	—				6:06.44

Shooting[edit]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Points	Rank	Total	Rank
Sorin Babii	10m air pistol	578	11	did not advance
	50m pistol	560	9	did not advance
Iulică Cazan	25m rapid fire pistol	583	11	did not advance
Iulian Raicea		587	1Q	684.6
	10m air pistol	569	30	did not advance

Swimming[edit]

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Camelia Potec	200m freestyle	2:00.18	5Q	1:59.54	2Q	1:59.46	7
	400m freestyle	4:11.92	11	did not advance
Simona Păduraru		4:13.89	16	did not advance
Diana Mocanu	100m backstroke	1:01.18 NR	2Q	1:00.70 NR	1Q	1:00.21 OR
	200m backstroke	2:09.21 NR	1Q	2:09.64	1Q	2:08.16
	100m butterfly	59.72 NR	12Q	59.12 NR	3Q	59.43	8
Beatrice Câșlaru	200m breaststroke	2:27.59	6Q	Withdrew
	200m individual medley	2:13.72	2Q	2:13.31	1Q	2:12.57
Diana Mocanu		2:29.58	34	did not advance
Beatrice Câșlaru	400m individual medley	4:41.04	4Q	—		4:37.18
Ioana Diaconescu Florina Herea Diana Mocanu Camelia Potec	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:48.78	12	did not advance
Lorena Diaconescu Florina Herea Simona Păduraru Camelia Potec	4 × 200 m freestyle relay	8:05.24	3Q	—		8:01.63	4
Ioana Diaconescu Florina Herea Simona Păduraru Raluca Udroiu	4 × 100 m medley relay	4:23.56	18	did not advance

Table tennis[edit]

Athlete	Event	Group stage			Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Adrian Crișan	Men's singles	Błaszczyk (POL) L 2-3	Gerada (AUS) W 3-0	2	did not advance
Otilia Bădescu	Women's singles	Fadeyeva (RUS) W 3-1	Silva (BRA) W 3-0	1Q	Suk (KOR) L 2-3	did not advance

Tennis[edit]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Andrei Pavel	Men's singles	Norman (SWE) L 7–6, 3–6, 8-10	did not advance
Ruxandra Dragomir	Women's singles	Pratt (AUS) L 3–6, 3-6	did not advance

Weightlifting[edit]

Men

Wrestling[edit]

Freestyle

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Nicolae Ghiță	85kg	Khadem (IRI) L 3-5	Kapuvari (HUN) L 1-2	Aka-Akesse (CIV) W 10-0	3	did not advance

Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Elimination Pool				Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Marian Sandu	54kg	Kang (PRK) W 8-7	Shevtsov (RUS) L 8-11	—	3	did not advance
Constantin Borăscu	58kg	Yildiz (GER) L 4-6	Barguaoui (TUN) W 7-0	Nikonorov (RUS) L 3-7	3	did not advance
Ender Memet	69kg	Azcuy (CUB) L 3-4	Abdo (AUS) W 11-0	—	2	did not advance
Petru Sudureac	97kg	Ljungberg (SWE) L 2-3	Mollov (BUL) W 6-1	—	2	did not advance

See also[edit]

• Romania at the 2000 Summer Paralympics

Notes[edit]

References[edit]