Romania at the 2012 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	ROU
Nocname:	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	2012
Website:
Location:	London
Competitors:	103
Sports:	14
Flagbearer:	Horia Tecău (opening) Sandra Izbașa (closing)
Rank:	29
Gold:	2
Silver:	4
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1900

Romania competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This nation has competed at the Summer Olympic Games since its official debut in 1924, missing only two editions, including the 1948 Summer Olympics. Despite being London's third Olympic Games, this is the first time the Romanian team has competed in London. The Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român, COSR) sent a total of 103 athletes to the Games, 54 men and 49 women, to compete in 14 sports.

Romania left London with a total of 9 medals (2 gold, 5 silver, and 2 bronze), beating the number of medals won in 2008 by one. This performance was considered the nation's worst at an Olympic Games since 1964, based on the gold medal standings. Three of the medals were awarded to the team in artistic gymnastics, two in judo, two in weightlifting (taken away later), and one each in fencing and shooting. Romania did not win an Olympic medal in rowing for the first time since 1976, and in athletics for the first time since 1980. On 25 November 2020 the IOC disqualified two Romanians weightlifters, Răzvan Martin and Roxana Cocoș, for doping and stripped them of their medals.^[1]

Among the nation's medalists were gymnasts Sandra Izbașa and Cătălina Ponor, who both won two medals for their individual final exercises (vault and floor). The women's artistic gymnastics team, led by Ponor and Izbașa, also managed to repeat its bronze medal in the all-around event. Rifle shooter Alin Moldoveanu became the first Romanian man to claim the gold medal in a shooting event in 12 years. Meanwhile, Rareș Dumitrescu, who missed out of the bronze medal in men's individual sabre, led his team to win the silver in the men's team sabre fencing competition.

Medalists

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Medals by date
Day	Date	bgcolor=#F7F6A8		bgcolor=#DCE5E5		bgcolor=#FFDAB9		Total
Day 1	28 July	0	1	0	1
Day 2	29 July	0	0	0	0
Day 3	30 July	1	1	0	2
Day 4	31 July	0	0	1	1
Day 5	1 August	0	0	0	0
Day 6	2 August	0	0	0	0
Day 7	3 August	0	1	0	1
Day 8	4 August	0	0	0	0
Day 9	5 August	1	0	0	1
Day 10	6 August	0	0	0	0
Day 11	7 August	0	1	0	1
Day 12	8 August	0	0	0	0
Day 13	9 August	0	0	0	0
Day 14	10 August	0	0	0	0
Day 15	11 August	0	0	0	0
Day 16	12 August	0	0	0	0
Total		2	4	1	7

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#F7F6A8		bgcolor=#DCE5E5		bgcolor=#FFDAB9		Total
Fencing	0	1	0	1
Gymnastics	1	1	1	3
Judo	0	2	0	2
Shooting	1	0	0	1
Total	2	4	1	7

Medals by gender
Gender	bgcolor=#F7F6A8		bgcolor=#DCE5E5		bgcolor=#FFDAB9		Total
Male	1	1	0	2
Female	1	3	1	5
Total	2	4	1	7

Delegation

Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (COSR) selected a team of 103 athletes, 54 men and 49 women, to compete in 14 sports, surpassing the record in 2008 by just a single athlete. There was only a single competitor in road cycling.

The Romanian team featured past Olympic champions, four of them defending (marathon runner Constantina Diță, judoka Alina Dumitru, gymnast Sandra Izbașa, and rowing pair Georgeta Andrunache and Viorica Susanu). Eight female Romanian athletes were among the oldest of the team, including discus thrower Nicoleta Grasu, who competed at her sixth Olympics. Georgeta Andrunache became one of the most successful female rowers in Olympic history, with a total of six medals; five of them gold. Andrunache's compatriot, Viorica Susanu, who won a total of five Olympic medals, competed at her fifth Olympics, along with marathon runner Lidia Șimon. Skeet shooter Lucia Mihalache, at age 45, was the oldest athlete of the team, while gymnast Larisa Iordache was the youngest at age 16.

Other notable Romanian athletes included gymnast Cătălina Ponor, who made an Olympic comeback in her sport after eight years, swimmer and former Olympic champion Camelia Potec, who competed at her fourth Olympics, and tennis doubles specialist Horia Tecău, who became the nation's first male flag bearer at the opening ceremony since 1996.^[2]

| width=78% align=left valign=top |The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games. Note that reserves for fencing, field hockey, football, and handball are counted as reserves:

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Athletics	2	15	17
Boxing	1	1	2
Canoeing	9	2	11
Cycling	0	1	1
Fencing	4	4	8
Gymnastics	5	5	10
Judo	3	3	6
Rowing	4	11	15
Shooting	1	1	2
Swimming	3	1	4
Table tennis	1	2	3
Tennis	2	3	5
Water polo	13	0	13
Weightlifting	3	1	4
Wrestling	2	0	2
Total	54	49	103

Athletics

See main article: article and Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Romanian athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard):^[3]

Men

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Final
		Result	Rank
Marius Ionescu	Marathon	2:16:28	26
Marius Cocioran	50 km walk	3:57:52	39

Women

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
align=left rowspan=2	Andreea Ogrăzeanu	100 m	11.44	5	Did not advance
200 m	23.46	6	Did not advance
Bianca Răzor	400 m	52.83	5	Did not advance
Mirela Lavric	800 m	2:01.65	4 q	2:00.46	7	Did not advance
Roxana Bârcă	5000 m	16:01.04	18	Did not advance
Angela Moroșanu	400 m hurdles	56.64	5	Did not advance
Ancuța Bobocel	align=left rowspan=2	3000 m steeplechase	9:31.06	6	Did not advance
Cristina Casandra	9:58.83	13	Did not advance
Constantina Diță	align=left rowspan=2	Marathon	2:41:34	86
Lidia Șimon	2:32:46	45
Claudia Ștef	20 km walk	1:33:56	38

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Viorica Țigău	Long jump	6.21	24	Did not advance
Cristina Bujin	Triple jump		—	Did not advance
Esthera Petre	High jump	1.85	=20	Did not advance
Nicoleta Grasu	Discus throw	61.86	14	Did not advance
Bianca Perie	Hammer throw	68.34	22	Did not advance

Boxing

See main article: article and Boxing at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Men

Women

Canoeing

See main article: article and Canoeing at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Sprint

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Josif Chirilă	C-1 1000 m	4:05.863	1 Q	4:07.794	6 FB	3:59.730	11
Alexandru Dumitrescu Victor Mihalachi	C-2 1000 m	3:43.787	4 Q	3:36.551	3 FA	3:43.005	7
Bogdan Mada Ionuț Mitrea	K-2 200 m	33.978	5 Q	34.253	5 FB	46.495	13
Petrus Gavrila Toni Ioneticu Traian Neagu Ștefan Vasile	K-4 1000 m	3:12.371	4 Q	2:55.027	5 FA	2:58.223	8

Women

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

See main article: article and Cycling at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Road

Fencing

See main article: article and Fencing at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Radu Dărăban	Individual foil	W 15–12	L 11–15	Did not advance
Tiberiu Dolniceanu	align=left rowspan=3	Individual sabre		L 11–15	Did not advance
Rareș Dumitrescu		W 15–12	W 15–6	W 15–13	L 11–15	L 10–15	4
Florin Zalomir	W 15–7	L 12–15	Did not advance
Tiberiu Dolniceanu Rareș Dumitrescu Florin Zalomir Alexandru Sirițeanu	Team sabre	W 45–30	W 45–43	L 26–45

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ana Maria Brânză	align=left rowspan=3	Individual épée		W 15–8	L 13–14	Did not advance
Simona Gherman		W 15–9	W 15–13	L 14–15	Did not advance
Anca Măroiu		W 15–10	W 15–11	L 14–15	Did not advance
Ana Maria Brânză Simona Gherman Anca Măroiu Loredana Dinu	Team épée	L 38–45	Classification semi-final W 45–38	5th place final L 36–45	6
Bianca Pascu	Individual sabre		L 10–15	Did not advance

Gymnastics

See main article: article and Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Women's artistic gymnastics was the best sport for Romania at the 2012 Summer Olympics. They won a bronze medal in the team competition, Sandra Izbașa won gold on vault, and Cătălina Ponor won silver on floor. This was the 10th consecutive Olympics that Romania won a medal in the women's artistic gymnastics team competition dating back to 1976; their streak ended at the next Olympics in 2016.

Artistic

Men

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Cristian Bățagă	align=left rowspan=6	Team	14.666	12.700	14.833	15.766	Did not advance
Marius Berbecar		12.733	14.466	15.433	15.233	13.700	colspan=2
Ovidiu Buidoso	14.366	13.766	14.733	14.066	colspan=2
Vlad Cotuna	15.016		14.400	15.500	14.866	13.491	colspan=2
Flavius Koczi	15.666 Q	13.400	14.600	16.066 Q	13.500	12.633	85.865	25 Q
Total	45.348	39.899	43.899	47.332	44.832	41.257	262.567	10

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Total	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Flavius Koczi	All-around	Did not start
Floor	15.100	15.100	7
Vault	15.633	15.633	7

Women

Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
Diana Bulimar	align=left rowspan=6	Team	14.000	14.866 Q		14.066	14.533	14.700	colspan=2
Diana Chelaru	14.333	14.666	13.733		13.633	colspan=4
Larisa Iordache	13.800	15.100	14.100	14.800	57.800	9 Q	15.100	15.200	colspan=2
Sandra Izbașa	15.066 Q	15.500 Q	12.366	14.600	57.532	11 Q	14.800	13.766	15.300	colspan=3
Cătălina Ponor	14.600 Q	15.133		15.033 Q	15.100		15.416	14.800	colspan=2
Total	43.999	45.733	41.833	44.699	176.264	4 Q	45.000	41.464	45.249	44.700	176.414

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Apparatus				Total	Rank
align=left rowspan="2"	Larisa Iordache	All-around	13.833	14.933	14.233	14.966	57.965	9
Balance beam	14.200	14.200	6
align=left rowspan=3	Sandra Izbașa	All-around	15.200	15.333	13.900	14.400	58.833	5
Floor	13.333	13.333	8
Vault		15.191	15.191
align=left rowspan=2	Cătălina Ponor	Floor	15.200	15.200
Balance beam	15.066	15.066	4

Judo

See main article: article and Judo at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Dan Fâșie	−66 kg		L 0000–0100	Did not advance
Daniel Brata	−100 kg		L 0013–0102	Did not advance
Vlăduț Simionescu	+100 kg		W 1001–0001	L 1000–0000	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Alina Dumitru	−48 kg		W 1000–0000	W 0011–0001	W 0102–0011		L 0000–0011
Andreea Chițu	−52 kg	W 0100–0000	L 0000–0010	Did not advance
Corina Căprioriu	−57 kg	W 0102–0000	W 0100–0000	W 0000–0000	W 0100–0000		L 0000–0100

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 2012 Summer Olympics. For the first time in 36 years Romania did not win any medals in rowing.

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Georgeta Andrunache Viorica Susanu	Pair	7:05.39	3 R	7:08.42	1 FA	7:37.67	5
Nicoleta Albu Enikő Barabás Roxana Cogianu Adelina Cojocariu Irina Dorneanu Teodora Gîdoiu Cristina Grigoraș Camelia Lupașcu Ioana Rotaru	Eight	6:16.61	2 R	6:16:16	2 FA	6:17.64	4

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Shooting

See main article: article and Shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Men

Women

Swimming

See main article: article and Swimming at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Romanian swimmers achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[4]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Dragoș Agache	100 m breaststroke	1:02.93	=37	Did not advance
Alexandru Coci	200 m butterfly	1:59.67	29	Did not advance
align=left rowspan=2	Norbert Trandafir	50 m freestyle	22.22 NR	15 Q	22.30	16	Did not advance
100 m freestyle	49.02	17	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
align=left rowspan=3	Camelia Potec	200 m freestyle	2:01.15	25	Did not advance
400 m freestyle	4:11.43	20	Did not advance
800 m freestyle	8:38.44	23	Did not advance

Table tennis

See main article: article and Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Romania qualified three athletes for singles table tennis events based on their world rankings as of 16 May 2011. Adrian Crișan qualified for the men's event; Daniela Dodean and Elizabeta Samara qualified for the women's.^[5]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary round	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Adrian Crișan	Men's singles	W 4–2	W 4–1	L 0–4	Did not advance
Daniela Dodean	align=left rowspan=2	Women's singles	W 4–3	L 0–4	Did not advance
Elizabeta Samara	W 4–1	W 4–2	L 2–4	Did not advance

Tennis

See main article: article and Tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Adrian Ungur	Men's singles	L 3–6, 3–6	Did not advance
Horia Tecău Adrian Ungur	Men's doubles		L 3–6, 6–7^(9–11)	Did not advance
Irina-Camelia Begu	align=left rowspan=3	Women's singles	L 1–6, 6–3, 1–6	Did not advance
Sorana Cîrstea	L 2–6, 6–4, 2–6	Did not advance
Simona Halep	L 4–6, 2–6	Did not advance
Sorana Cîrstea Simona Halep	Women's doubles		L 3–6, 2–6	Did not advance

Water polo

See main article: article and Water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Men's tournament

See main article: article and Water polo at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament.

Team roster

Group play

Weightlifting

See main article: article and Weightlifting at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Florin Croitoru	Men's −56 kg	121	8	147	9	268	9
Răzvan Martin	Men's −69 kg	152	2	180	4	322
Gabriel Sîncrăian	Men's −85 kg	167		—	—	—
Roxana Cocoș	Women's −69 kg	113	4	143	2	256

Wrestling

See main article: article and Wrestling at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Men's freestyle

Men's Greco-Roman

Notes and References

1. Web site: IOC sanctions three athletes for failing anti-doping tests at London 2012. International Olympic Committee. 25 November 2020. 25 November 2020.
2. News: Staff . 3 July 2012 . Horia Tecău, port-drapelul României la ceremonia de deschidere a JO 2012 . Horia Tecău, Romania's Flag Bearer at the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games 2012 . ro . https://archive.today/20121209105724/http://www.cotidianul.ro/horia-tecau-port-drapelul-romaniei-la-ceremonia-de-deschidere-a-jo-2012-187654/ . dead . 9 December 2012 . . 4 July 2012 .
3. Web site: iaaf.org – Top Lists. IAAF. 4 June 2011.
4. Web site: Swimming World Rankings. FINA. 8 June 2011. 26 September 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150926202957/http://www.fina.org/H2O/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=805. dead.
5. Web site: Direct Qualifiers for 2012 London Olympic Games – Provisional list. International Table Tennis Federation. 17 May 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110809193041/http://www.ittf.com/World_Events/2012OG/Players_byWR_OG2012.pdf. 9 August 2011.