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) (in English) (in French)
in Sydney
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 Olympics in Sydney, 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

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 Presecan, 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 Cochelea, 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	Diana Mocanu	Swimming	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 Ioniţă, 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

^ ^a ^b Medals were awarded on 25 September 2000 after Andreea Răducan disqualified due to medical substance.^[2]

Athletics

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Florin Ionescu	3000 m steeplechase	8:37.44	27	Did not advance
Costică Bălan	20 km walk	N/A						1:23:42	18

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Bogdan Ţărus	Long jump	8.00	12 q	8.00	9
Ionuţ Pungă	Triple jump	16.72	14	Did not advance
Gheorghe Guşet	Shot put	18.56	30	Did not advance
Costel Grasu	Discus throw	NM	—	Did not advance

Women
Track & road events

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

Field events

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

Combined events – Heptathlon

Athlete	Event	100H	HJ	SP	200 m	LJ	JT	800 m	Final	Rank
Viorica Tigau	Result	13.39	1.72	11.53	24.80	6.01	43.48	2:19.65	5893	18
Viorica Tigau	Points	1066	879	630	905	853	732	828	5893	18

Boxing

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Marian Velicu	Light Flyweight	Ramazan Ballioğlu (TUR) W 20–8	Maikro Romero (CUB) L RSC	Did not advance
Bogdan Dobrescu	Flyweight	Yang Xiangzhong (CHN) W 12–3	Manuel Mantilla (CUB) L RSC	Did not advance
George Olteanu	Bantamweight	Artur Mikaelyan (GRE) W 7–2	César Morales (MEX) W RSC	Clarence Vinson (USA) L 19–26	Did not advance
Ovidiu Bobîrnat	Featherweight	Bekzat Sattarkhanov (KAZ) L 5–14	Did not advance
Gheorghe Lungu	Lightweight	Adisu Tebebu (ETH) W 15–3	Cristián Bejarano (MEX) L 11–14	Did not advance
Dorel Simion	Welterweight	Mosolesa Tsie (LES) W RSC	Roberto Guerra (CUB) W 11–7	Steven Küchler (GER) W 26–14	Oleg Saitov (RUS) L 10–19	Did not advance
Marian Simion	Light middleweight	Ciro Di Corcia (ITA) W 19–8	José Luis Zertuche (MEX) W RSC	Frédéric Esther (FRA) W RSC	Pornchai Thongburan (THA) W 26–16	Yermakhan Ibraimov (KAZ) L 23–25
Oleksandr Zubrihin	Middleweight	Abdelghani Kinzi (ALG) W 19–8	Jitender Kumar (IND) W 12–3	Jorge Gutiérrez (CUB) L KO	Did not advance
Claudio Rîşco	Light Heavyweight	Sergey Mihaylov (UZB) L 6–15	Did not advance
Constantin Onofrei	Super Heavyweight	BYE	Samuel Peter (NGR) L 14–17	Did not advance

Canoeing

Sprint

Men

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

Women

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

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

Diving

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Gabriel Chereches	3 m springboard	318.27	35	Did not advance
Gabriel Chereches	10 m platform	320.61	30	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Clara Elena Ciocan	3 m springboard	265.29	21	Did not advance
Anişoara Oprea	3 m springboard	221.82	36	Did not advance

Fencing

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
Athlete	Event	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 Gaureanu		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 Gaureanu Florin Lupeică	Men's team sabre	N/A			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
Athlete	Event	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	Women's foil	Bye	Mahoney (CAN) W 15–10	Marsh (USA) W 15–7	Vezzali (ITA) L 8–9	Did not advance

Gymnastics

Handball

Group A

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


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

Quarter-finals


September 28, 2000
Norway	28 – 16	Romania

5–8th place


September 30, 2000
Austria	29 – 23	Romania

7th place


October 1, 2000
Brazil	33 – 38	Romania

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Rowing

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 200 m Freestyle

Dragoş Coman

Preliminary Heat — 1:50.20 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Freestyle

Dragoş Coman

Preliminary Heat — 03:48.77
Final — 03:47.38 (→ 5th place)

Men's 1500 m Freestyle

Dragoş Coman

Preliminary Heat — 15:12.64 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

Ioan Gherghel

Preliminary Heat — 54.13 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Butterfly

Ioan Gherghel

Preliminary Heat — 01:59.48 (→ did not advance)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

Răzvan Florea

Preliminary Heat — 56.35 (→ did not advance)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

Răzvan Florea

Preliminary Heat — 01:59.79
Semi-final — 01:59.44
Final — 01:59.05 (→ 6th place)

Men's 200 m Individual Medley

Cezar Bădiţă

Preliminary Heat — 02:02.48
Semi-final — 02:02.02 (→ did not advance)

Men's 400 m Individual Medley

Cezar Bădiţă

Preliminary Heat — 04:17.11
Final — 04:20.91 (→ 7th place)

Men's 4 × 200 m Freestyle

Dragoş Coman, Cezar Bădiţă, Răzvan Florea, Ioan Gherghel

Preliminary Heat — 07:24.06 (→ did not advance)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

Camelia Potec

Preliminary Heat — 02:00.18
Semi-final — 01:59.54
Final — 01:59.46 (→ 7th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

Camelia Potec

Preliminary Heat — 04:11.92 (→ did not advance)

Simona Păduraru

Preliminary Heat — 04:13.89 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

Diana Mocanu

Preliminary Heat — 59.72
Semi-final — 59.12
Final — 59.43 (→ 8th place)

Women's 200 m Breaststroke

Beatrice Căslaru

Preliminary Heat — 02:27.59 (→ did not advance)

Women's 100 m Backstroke

Diana Mocanu

Preliminary Heat — 01:01.18
Semi-final — 01:00.70
Final — 01:00.21 (→ Gold Medal) — Olympic Record

Women's 200 m Backstroke

Diana Mocanu

Preliminary Heat — 02:09.21
Semi-final — 02:09.64
Final — 02:08.61 (→ Gold Medal)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

Beatrice Căslaru

Preliminary Heat — 02:13.72
Semi-final — 02:13.31
Final — 02:12.57 (→ Silver Medal)

Diana Mocanu

Preliminary Heat — 02:29.58 (→ did not advance)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

Beatrice Căslaru

Preliminary Heat — 04:41.04
Final — 04:37.18 (→ Bronze Medal)

Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

Floina Herea, Simona Păduraru, Diana Mocanu, and Camelia Potec

Preliminary Heat — 03:48.78 (→ did not advance)

Women's 4 × 200 m Freestyle Relay

Beatrice Căslaru, Ioana Diaconescu, Floina Herea, Simona Păduraru, and Camelia Potec

Preliminary Heat — 08:05.24
Final — 08:01.63 (→ 4th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay

Oana Strătianu, Floina Herea, Simona Păduraru, and Raluca Udroiu

Preliminary Heat — 04:23.56 (→ did not advance)

Table tennis

Tennis

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch			Clean & Jerk			Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	1	2	3	Total	Rank
Adrian Jigău	– 56 kg	122.5	~~127.5~~	~~127.5~~	152.5	~~157.5~~	~~157.5~~	275.0	6
Valeriu Calancea	– 85 kg	155.0	160.0	~~162.5~~	195.0	~~205.0~~	205.0	365.0	10
Florin Vlad	– 105 kg	175.0	180.0	~~185.0~~	215.0	220.0	225.0	405.0	7
Marius Alecu	+ 105 kg	165.0	170.0	175.0	215.0	~~220.0~~	~~220.0~~	390.0	15

Wrestling

Notes

Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 12 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 20 November 2005.
International Olympic Committee Web Site

References

^ "Romania at the 2000 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Raducan tests positive for stimulant" Associated Press, 26 September 2000

[Raducan-3] Medals were awarded on 25 September 2000 after Andreea Răducan disqualified due to medical substance.^[2]

[sports-reference-1] "Romania at the 2000 Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 10 March 2012.

[positive-2] "Raducan tests positive for stimulant" Associated Press, 26 September 2000

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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) (in English) (in French)
in Sydney
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)
1900 1904–1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020