Romania at the 2016 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:ROU
Nocname:Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
Games:Summer Olympics
Year:2016
Website: 
Location:Rio de Janeiro
Competitors:96
Sports:14
Flagbearer:Cătălina Ponor (opening)[1]
Simona Pop (closing)
Rank:47
Gold:1
Silver:1
Bronze:2
Appearances:auto
App Begin Year:1900

Romania competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's participation started in 1900 (and its official debut in 1924), Romanian athletes had appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except for two occasions: the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles during the worldwide Great Depression, and the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

The Romanian team consisted of 97 athletes, 34 men and 63 women, across 14 sports, their smallest in Summer Olympic history since 1988. For the fourth time in history, Romania fielded more female athletes than males at the Games, due to the proliferation of women in both athletics and rowing making the cut and the comeback of the women's handball squad after being absent from London 2012.

Romania left Rio de Janeiro with four medals (one gold, one silver, and two bronze), signifying the country's poorest performance at the Summer Olympics since 1952.[2] [3] The women's épée team brought home Romania's only gold medal at the Games, beating the top-ranked Chinese team in the final match with the help of early unmatched touches from four-time Olympian Ana Maria Brânză.[4] Horia Tecău and Florin Mergea secured a historic first Olympic tennis medal of any color for their team, a silver in the men's doubles.[5] The women's eight rowing squad made a late surge to obtain the final podium spot, while Russian-born Albert Saritov closed out the nation's overall tally at the Games with a bronze in freestyle wrestling.[2] For the first time since 1972, Romanian athletes failed to earn an Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics.

Originally, Romania collected a total of five medals. On 13 October 2016, the International Olympic Committee stripped weightlifter Gabriel Sîncrăian of his bronze medal after he tested positive for excess testosterone.[6]

Medalists

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Medals by sport
Sportbgcolor=f7f6a8 bgcolor=dce5e5 bgcolor=ffdab9 Total
Fencingbgcolor=F7F6A8 1bgcolor=DCE5E5 0bgcolor=FFDAB9 01
Tennisbgcolor=F7F6A8 0bgcolor=DCE5E5 1bgcolor=FFDAB9 01
Rowingbgcolor=F7F6A8 0bgcolor=DCE5E5 0bgcolor=FFDAB9 11
Wrestlingbgcolor=F7F6A8 0bgcolor=DCE5E5 0bgcolor=FFDAB9 11
Total1124
Medals by gender
Genderbgcolor=#F7F6A8 bgcolor=#DCE5E5 bgcolor=#FFDAB9 Total
Male0112
Female1012
Total1124

Competitors

Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee (Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan: Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român, COSR) fielded a team of 97 athletes, 34 men and 63 women, to compete across 14 sports at the Games; it was the nation's smallest delegation sent to the Olympics since 1952.[7] For only the fourth time in history, Romania was represented by more female athletes than males, due to the proliferation of women in both athletics and rowing making the cut, and the comeback of the women's handball squad after being absent from London 2012. Of the 97 participants, 31 of them attended at least a single Olympiad, with the rest making their debut in Rio de Janeiro.

For the first time since 1968, Romania did not send any of the artistic gymnastics squads to the Games, snapping the country's medal streak in the team event after four decades.[8] Track and field accounted for the largest number of athletes on the squad with 22 entries. There was a single competitor in boxing, road cycling, rhythmic gymnastics, and shooting.

Seven of the past Olympic medalists returned, including defending champion Alin Moldoveanu in men's air rifle shooting, triple jumper Marian Oprea, fencers Tiberiu Dolniceanu (men's sabre) and Ana Maria Brânză (women's épée), judoka Corina Căprioriu (women's 57 kg), and gymnastics veterans Marian Drăgulescu, who owned a career tally of three medals leading to his fourth Games, and three-time champion Cătălina Ponor, who was selected as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony, the first by a gymnast in Romania's Olympic history.[1] [9]

Other notable competitors on the Romanian team included tennis player Horia Tecău and his new partner Florin Mergea (both world no. 3) in the men's doubles, Russian-born freestyle wrestler Albert Saritov, handball team captain Aurelia Brădeanu, and coxswain and former gymnast Daniela Druncea of the women's eight rowing crew. Fourteen-year-old swimmer Ana-Iulia Dascăl, who entered the Games through a universality invitation, was Romania's youngest competitor, with race walker Claudia Ștef rounding out the lineup as the oldest member (aged 38).

| width=78% align=left valign=top |The following is the list of number of competitors who participated in the Games. Note that reserves in fencing, field hockey, football, gymnastics, handball and rowing are not counted as athletes:

width=180Sportwidth=55Menwidth=55Womenwidth=55Total
6 16 22
1 0 1
1 0 1
1 5 6
2 2 4
0 14 14
1 3 4
6 11 17
1 0 1
5 1 6
2 3 5
2 4 6
2 2 4
4 1 5
Total 34 62 96

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Romanian athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):[10] [11]

A total of 18 athletes (six men and twelve women) were selected to the Romanian track and field team for the Games, including two-time Olympian Ancuța Bobocel (women's 3000 m steeplechase) and Athens 2004 silver medalist Marian Oprea (men's triple jump).[12]

Track & road events
  • Men
  • AthleteEventFinal
    ResultRank
    Marius Ionescualign=left rowspan=2Marathon2:17:2737
    Nicolae Soare2:31:53127
    Marius Cocioranalign=left rowspan=250 km walk
    Narcis Mihăilă4:02:4630
    Women
    AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
    ResultRankResultRankResultRank
    Bianca Răzor400 m52.426did not advance
    Claudia Boboceaalign=left rowspan=2800 m2:03.756Did not advance
    Florina Pierdevară2:03.327Did not advance
    Ancuța Bobocel3000 m steeplechase9:46.2813did not advance
    Bianca Răzor
    Anamaria Ioniță
    Andrea Miklos
    Adelina Pastor
    4 × 400 m relay3:29.877did not advance
    Daniela Cârlanalign=left rowspan=2Marathon
    Paula Todoran2:48.54101
    Andreea Arsinealign=left rowspan=320 km walk1:38:1645
    Ana Veronica Rodean1:38:4250
    Claudia Ștef1:41:4757
    Field events
    AthleteEventQualificationFinal
    DistancePositionDistancePosition
    Marian OpreaMen's triple jumpdid not advance
    Andrei GagMen's shot put20.4013did not advance
    Alina RotaruWomen's long jump6.4018did not advance
    Cristina Bujinalign=left rowspan=2Women's triple jump13.3830did not advance
    Elena Panțuroiu14.0016did not advance

    Boxing

    See main article: Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Romania entered one boxer to compete in the following weight classes into the Olympic boxing tournament. Mihai Nistor was the only Romanian finishing among the top two of his respective weight division in the AIBA Pro Boxing series.[13]

    Cycling

    See main article: Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

    Road

    Romania qualified one rider in the men's Olympic road race by virtue of his top 200 individual ranking in the 2015 UCI Europe Tour.[14]

    Fencing

    See main article: Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Romanian fencers qualified a full squad in the women's team épée by virtue of their top four national finish in the FIE Olympic Team Rankings.[15] Meanwhile, 2012 Olympic silver medalist Tiberiu Dolniceanu secured a spot on the Romanian team in the men's sabre by finishing among the top 14 individual fencers in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.[16] Foil fencer Mălina Călugăreanu rounded out the Romanian roster by finishing among the top four individuals at the European Zonal Qualifier in Prague, Czech Republic.

    AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalSemifinalFinal /
    Opposition
    Score
    Opposition
    Score
    Opposition
    Score
    Opposition
    Score
    Opposition
    Score
    Opposition
    Score
    Rank
    Tiberiu DolniceanuMen's sabre
    W 15–7

    W 15–13

    L 10–15
    did not advance
    Ana Maria Brânzăalign=left rowspan=3Women's épée
    W 15–8

    L 8–15
    did not advance
    Simona Gherman
    L 10–13
    did not advance
    Simona Pop
    L 10–15
    did not advance
    Ana Maria Brânză
    Loredana Dinu
    Simona Gherman
    Simona Pop
    Women's team épée
    W 24–23

    W 45–31

    W 44–38
    Mălina CălugăreanuWomen's foil
    L 12–15
    did not advance

    Gymnastics

    See main article: Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

    Artistic

    Romania did not send any all-around teams to the Olympics for the first time since 1968, despite Cătălina Ponor coming out of retirement.[8] This ended the streak of winning a team medal in the event since 1976.[17] Romania entered three artistic gymnasts into the Olympic competition. Four-time Olympic medalist Marian Drăgulescu claimed his Olympic spot in the men's apparatus and all-around events at the 2015 World Championships, while two more places were awarded to one Romanian male and female gymnast, who participated at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.[18] [19]

    Men
    AthleteEventQualificationFinal
    ApparatusTotalRankApparatusTotalRank
    align=left rowspan=2Andrei MunteanAll-around13.73312.50013.70014.63315.466 Q13.83383.86536did not advance
    Parallel bars15.46615.4669 Q15.60015.6006
    align=left rowspan=3Marian DrăgulescuFloor12.80012.80067did not advance
    Vault15.28315.2835 Q15.44915.4494
    Horizontal bar12.16612.16670did not advance
    Women
    AthleteEventQualificationFinal
    ApparatusTotalRankApparatusTotalRank
    align=left rowspan=2Cătălina PonorBalance beam14.90014.9005 Q14.00014.0007
    Floor14.20014.20014did not advance

    Rhythmic

    Romania qualified one rhythmic gymnast in the individual all-around for the Games by claiming one of eight available Olympic spots at the Olympic Test Event in Rio de Janeiro.[20]

    Handball

    See main article: Handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

    Summary

    Women's tournament

    See main article: Handball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament. The Romanian women's handball team qualified for the Olympics by virtue of a top two finish at the second meet of the Olympic Qualification Tournament in Aarhus, Denmark.[21]

    Team roster
    Group play----------------

    Judo

    See main article: Judo at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Romania qualified a total of four judokas for the following weight classes at the Games. Daniel Natea, Monica Ungureanu, London 2012 Olympian Andreea Chițu, and silver medalist Corina Căprioriu were ranked among the top 22 eligible judokas for men and top 14 for women in the IJF World Ranking List of 30 May 2016.[22] [23]

    AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechageFinal /
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
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    Result
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    Result
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    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Rank
    Daniel NateaMen's +100 kg
    W 100–000

    L 000–110
    did not advance
    Monica UngureanuWomen's −48 kg
    L 000–100
    did not advance
    Andreea ChițuWomen's −52 kg
    W 101–000

    L 000–001
    Did not advance
    L 010–100
    Did not advance7
    Corina CăprioriuWomen's −57 kg
    W 002–000

    W 100–000

    L 000–010

    L 000–001
    5

    Rowing

    See main article: Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Romania qualified a total of five boats for each of the following rowing classes into the Olympic regatta. Three rowing crews confirmed Olympic places for their boats at the 2015 FISA World Championships in Lac d'Aiguebelette, France, while the rowers competing in the women's lightweight double sculls and women's eight were further added to the Romanian roster as a result of their top two finish at the 2016 European & Final Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.[24] [25]

    Men
    AthleteEventHeatsRepechageSemifinalsFinal
    TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
    George Alexandru Pălămariu
    Cristi-Ilie Pîrghie
    Pair6:51.713 SA/B6:48.176 FB7:13.6812
    Vlad Dragoș Aicoboae
    Marius Cozmiuc
    Constantin Adam
    Toader-Andrei Gontaru
    Four6:02.564 R6:39.644did not advance
    Women
    AthleteEventHeatsRepechageSemifinalsFinal
    TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
    Mădălina Bereș
    Laura Oprea
    Pair7:18.165 R7:55.251 SA/B7:29.204 FB7:19.639
    Gianina Beleagă
    Ionela-Livia Lehaci
    Lightweight double sculls7:07.293 R8:00.471 SA/B7:21.384 FB7:24.618
    Mădălina Bereș
    Andreea Boghian
    Adelina Boguș
    Roxana Cogianu
    Iuliana Popa
    Laura Oprea
    Mihaela Petrilă
    Ioana Strungaru
    Daniela Druncea (cox)
    Eight6:16.243 R6:32.632 FA6:04.10
    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: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Romania received a wildcard invitation from ISSF to send London 2012 champion Alin Moldoveanu in the men's air rifle to the Olympics, as long as the minimum qualifying score (MQS) was met by 31 March 2016.[26] [27]

    Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

    Swimming

    See main article: Swimming at the 2016 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)):[28] [29]

    AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
    TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
    align=left rowspan=2Robert GlințăMen's 100 m backstroke53.519 Q53.34 NR4 Q53.508
    Men's 200 m backstroke1:57.9118did not advance
    Marius RaduMen's 100 m freestyle49.5738did not advance
    Norbert TrandafirMen's 50 m freestyle22.1016 Q21.9914did not advance
    Alin Coste
    Daniel Macovei
    Marius Radu
    Norbert Trandafir
    Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay3:17.0316did not advance
    Ana-Iulia DascălWomen's 100 m freestyle58.7236did not advance

    Table tennis

    See main article: Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Romania fielded a team of five athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. Ovidiu Ionescu, along with two-time Olympians Elizabeta Samara and Daniela Dodean, were automatically selected among the top 22 eligible players each in their respective singles events based on the ITTF Olympic Rankings.[30] Meanwhile, Adrian Crișan was granted an invitation from the ITTF to compete in the men's singles as one of the next seven highest-ranked eligible players, not yet qualified, on the Olympic Ranking List.

    Bernadette Szőcs was awarded the third spot to build the women's team for the Games by virtue of a top 10 national finish in the ITTF Olympic Rankings.[31]

    AthleteEventPreliminaryRound 1Round 2Round 3Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal /
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Rank
    Adrian Crișanalign=left rowspan=2Men's singles
    W 4–1

    W 4–3

    W 4–3

    L 0–4
    did not advance
    Ovidiu Ionescu
    W 4–1

    W 4–1

    L 1–4
    did not advance
    Daniela Dodeanalign=left rowspan=2Women's singles
    W 4–0

    W 4–1

    L 0–4
    did not advance
    Elizabeta Samara
    W 4–0

    L 0–4
    did not advance
    Daniela Dodean
    Elizabeta Samara
    Bernadette Szőcs
    Women's team
    L 2–3
    did not advance

    Tennis

    See main article: Tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Romania entered seven tennis players into the Olympic tournament. Irina-Camelia Begu (world no. 28), Simona Halep (world no. 5), and Monica Niculescu (world no. 37) qualified directly among the top 56 eligible players for the women's singles based on the WTA World Rankings, while London 2012 Olympian Horia Tecău teamed up with his partner Florin Mergea in the men's doubles by virtue of his top 10 ATP ranking as of 6 June 2016.[32] [33] Andreea Mitu and Raluca Olaru received a spare ITF Olympic place freed up by the Italians to join Begu and Niculescu in the women's doubles.[34]

    On 15 July 2016, Halep pulled out from the Games due to her concerns about the Zika virus.[35]

    Men
    Women
    AthleteEventRound of 64Round of 32Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal /
    Opposition
    Score
    Opposition
    Score
    Opposition
    Score
    Opposition
    Score
    Opposition
    Score
    Opposition
    Score
    Rank
    Irina-Camelia Begualign=left rowspan=3Singles
    L 4–6, 6–3, 3–6
    did not advance
    Andreea Mitu
    L 2–6, 2–6
    did not advance
    Monica Niculescu
    W 6–2, 6–3

    L
    did not advance
    Irina-Camelia Begu
    Monica Niculescu
    align=left rowspan=2Doubles
    L 7–5, 4–6, 3–6
    did not advance
    Andreea Mitu
    Raluca Olaru

    W 6–3, 6–4

    L 1–6, 4–6
    did not advance
    Mixed

    Weightlifting

    See main article: Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Romanian weightlifters qualified three men's and two women's quota places for the Rio Olympics based on their combined team standing by points at the 2014 and 2015 IWF World Championships. The team had to allocate these places to individual athletes by 20 June 2016.

    On 19 November 2015, the International Weightlifting Federation decided to strip one men's entry place from Romania because of "multiple positive cases" of doping.[36]

    AthleteEventSnatchClean & JerkTotalRank
    ResultRankResultRank
    Dumitru CaptariMen's −77 kg14514145
    Gabriel SîncrăianMen's −85 kg17352171390
    Florina Sorina HulpanWomen's −69 kg10012100
    Andreea AaneiWomen's +75 kg1206145102658

    Wrestling

    See main article: Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Romania qualified a total of four wrestlers for each of the following weight classes into the Olympic competition. One of them finished among the top six to book Olympic spot in the men's Greco-Roman 98 kg at the 2015 World Championships, while another Olympic berth was awarded to the Romanian wrestler who progressed to the top two finals of the women's freestyle 48 kg at the 2016 European Qualification Tournament.[37]

    Three further wrestlers claimed Olympic slots to round out the Romanian roster at the Olympic Qualification Tournaments; two of them at the initial meet in Ulaanbaatar and one more in the men's freestyle 98 kg at the final meet in Istanbul.[38]

    Men's freestyle
    AthleteEventQualificationRound of 16QuarterfinalSemifinalRepechage 1Repechage 2Final /
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Rank
    Ivan Guidea−57 kg
    W 3–1 PP

    L 0–5 VT
    did not advance11
    Albert Saritov−97 kg
    W 3–1 PP

    L 0–3 PO
    Did not advance
    W 3–1 PP

    W 4–0 ST
    Men's Greco-Roman
    AthleteEventQualificationRound of 16QuarterfinalSemifinalRepechage 1Repechage 2Final /
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Opposition
    Result
    Rank
    Ion Panait−66 kg
    L 1–3 PP
    did not advance12
    Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu−98 kg
    W 3–1 PP

    L 0–4 ST
    Did not advance
    W 3–0 PO

    L 0–3 PO
    5
    Women's freestyle

    See also

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    2. News: Rio 2016: Romania ranks 47 on medal tally; Olympic Committee head to resign amid team kit scandal. Business Review Europe. 22 August 2016. 14 January 2017.
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    5. News: Lopez and Nadal win gold for Spain. International Tennis Federation. 13 August 2016. 14 January 2017. 16 January 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170116204804/http://www.rio.itftennis.com/olympics/news/%2Folympics%2Fnews%2Farticles%2Flopez-and-nadal-win-gold-for-spain. dead.
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    20. News: Staniouta wins, Ashirbayeva tops list of Rhythmic Olympic qualifiers at Test Event. FIG. 21 April 2016. 21 April 2016.
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    27. News: Tir: Alin Moldoveanu a primit un wild card și va concura la JO de la Rio. Shooting: Alin Moldoveanu received a wildcard and will compete at the Rio Olympics. ro. Agerpres. 18 May 2016. 19 May 2016. 24 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160524130457/http://www.agerpres.ro/sport/2016/05/18/tir-alin-moldoveanu-a-primit-un-wild-card-si-va-concura-la-jo-de-la-rio-19-51-50. dead.
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