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Romania at the Olympic Games
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IOC code:   ROU
1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta
Medals	Gold 4	Silver 7	Bronze 9	Total 20
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Romania competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States.

Contents 1 Medals 1.1 Gold 1.2 Silver 1.3 Bronze 2 Results by event 2.1 Athletics 2.2 Boxing 2.3 Modern pentathlon 2.4 Swimming 2.5 Tennis 2.6 Water Polo 2.6.1 Men's Team Competition

Romania finished in 14th position in the final medal rankings, with four gold medals and 20 medals overall.

• Laura Badea — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual

• Simona Amânar — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault

• Constanţa Burcică-Pipota and Camelia Macoviciuc — Rowing, Women's Lightweight Double Sculls

• Vera Cochelea, Liliana Gafencu, Elena Georgescu, Doina Ignat, Elisabeta Lipă, Ioana Olteanu, Mărioara Popescu, Doina Spircu, Anca Tănase — Rowing, Women's Eights Competition

• Gabriela Szabo — Athletics, Women's 1.500 m

• Antonel Borsan and Marcel Glavan — Canoeing, Men's C2 1.000 m Canadian Pairs

• Laura Badea, Roxana Scarlat, and Reka Szabo — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition

• Marius Urzică — Gymnastics, Men's Pommeled Horse

• Dan Burincă — Gymnastics, Men's Rings

• Gina Gogean — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual Competition

• Simona Amânar — Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercises

• Leonard Doroftei — Boxing, Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

• Marian Simion — Boxing, Men's Welterweight (67 kg)

• Gheorghe Andriev and Grigore Obreja — Canoeing, Men's C2 500 m Canadian Pairs

• Simona Amânar — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual Competition

• Lavinia Miloşovici — Gymnastics, Women's All-Around Individual Competition

• Gina Gogean — Gymnastics, Women's Side Horse Vault

• Gina Gogean — Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam

• Simona Amânar, Gina Gogean, Ionela Loaieş, Alexandra Marinescu, Lavinia Miloşovici, and Mirela Ţugurlan — Gymnastics, Women's Team Combined Exercises

• Nicu Vlad — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight (108 kg)

Men's 400m Hurdles

• Mugur Mateescu
  1. Heat — 49.97s (→ did not advance)

Men's Discus Throw

• Costel Grasu

• Qualification — 58.56m (→ did not advance)

Women's Javelin Throw

• Felicia Tilea

• Qualification — 66.94m
• Final — 59.94m (→ 10th place)

Women's Discus Throw

• Nicole Grasu

• Qualification — 63.00m
• Final — 63.28m (→ 7th place)

• Cristina Boit

• Qualification — 58.10m (→ did not advance)

Women's Triple Jump

• Rodica Mateescu

• Qualification — 14.22m
• Final — 14.21m (→ 8th place)

Women's Heptathlon

• Liliana Nastase

• Final Result — 5847 points (→ 22nd place)

Women's Marathon

• Lidia Simon — 2:31.04 (→ 6th place)
• Anuţa Cătuna — 2:42.01 (→ 44th place)
• Cristina Pomacu — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women’s 10km Walk

• Norica Cimpean — 46:19 (→ 29th place)

Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg)

• Sabin Bornei
  1. First Round — Defeated José Perez (Dominican Republic), 16-10
  2. Second Round — Lost to Somrot Kamsing (Thailand), 7-18

Men's Bantamweight (54 kg)

• George Olteanu
  1. First Round — Defeated Samuel Alvarez (Mexico), referee stopped contest in third round
  2. Second Round — Defeated Kalai Riadh (Tunisia), 16-3
  3. Quarter Finals — Lost to István Kovács (Hungary), 2-24

Men's Lightweight (60 kg)

• Leonard Doroftei → Bronze Medal
  1. First Round — Defeated Julio Mboumba (Gabon), referee stopped contest in second round
  2. Second Round — Defeated Sergey Kopenkin (Kyrgyzstan), 10-1
  3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Koba Gogoladze (Georgia), 17-8
  4. Semi Finals — Lost to Hocine Soltani (Algeria), 6-9

Men's Lightweight (67 kg)

• Marian Simion → Bronze Medal
  1. First Round — Defeated Hussein Bayram (France), 13-6
  2. Second Round — Defeated Fernando Vargas (United States), 8-7
  3. Quarter Finals — Defeated Hasan Al (Denmark), 16-8
  4. Semi Finals — Lost to Juan Hernández Sierra (Cuba), 7-20

Men's Light Middleweight (71 kg)

• Francisc Vaştag
  1. First Round — Lost to Markus Beyer (Germany), 12-17

Men's Heavyweight (91 kg)

• Ovidiu Bali
  1. First Round — Bye
  2. Second Round — Lost to Christophe Mendy (France), referee stopped contest in second round

Men's Individual Competition

• Adrian Toader - 5335 pts, 14th place

Men's 100 m Freestyle

• Nicolae Ivan
  1. Heat — 51.14 (→ did not advance, 30th place)

Men's 200 m Freestyle

• Nicolae Butacu
  1. Heat — 1:50.83
  2. B-Final — 1:51.46 (→ 16th place)

Men's 100 m Backstroke

• Nicolae Butacu
  1. Heat — 56.73 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Men's 200 m Backstroke

• Nicolae Butacu
  1. Heat — 2:08.59 (→ did not advance, 34th place)

Men's 100 m Butterfly

• Răzvan Petcu
  1. Heat — 55.50 (→ did not advance, 35th place)

Men's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

• Nicolae Ivan, Răzvan Petcu, Horaţiu Badiţă, and Alexandru Ioanovici
  1. Heat — 3:21.66 (→ did not advance, 10th place)

Women's 50 m Freestyle

• Luminiţa Dobrescu
  1. Heat — 26.47 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Women's 100 m Freestyle

• Luminiţa Dobrescu
  1. Heat — 56.27
  2. B-Final — 55.98 (→ 11th place)

Women's 200 m Freestyle

• Luminiţa Dobrescu
  1. Heat — 2:00.85
  2. Final — 2:01.63 (→ 8th place)

• Ioana Diaconescu
  1. Heat — 2:04.59 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Women's 400 m Freestyle

• Carla Negrea
  1. Heat — 4:16.89
  2. B-Final — 4:17.08 (→ 16th place)

Women's 800 m Freestyle

• Carla Negrea
  1. Heat — 8:54.19 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Women's 200 m Backstroke

• Cătălina Căsaru
  1. Heat — 2:15.92
  2. B-Final — 2:15.15 (→ 14th place)

Women's 100 m Breaststroke

• Larisa Lăcustă
  1. Heat — 1:13.91 (→ did not advance, 35th place)

Women's 100 m Butterfly

• Loredana Zisu
  1. Heat — 1:02.66 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

Women's 200 m Butterfly

• Loredana Zisu
  1. Heat — 2:17.56 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

Women's 200 m Individual Medley

• Beatrice Caslaru
  1. Heat — 2:16.80
  2. B-Final — 2:16.75 (→ 12th place)

Women's 400 m Individual Medley

• Beatrice Caslaru
  1. Heat — 4:44.66
  2. Final — 4:44.91 (→ 6th place)

Women's 4x100 m Freestyle Relay

• Ioana Diaconescu, Florina Herea, Andrea Trufaşu, and Luminiţa Dobrescu
  1. Heat – 3:48.43 (→ did not advance, 11th place)

Women's 4x200 m Freestyle Relay

• Luminiţa Dobrescu, Loredana Zisu, Ioana Diaconescu, and Carla Negrea
  1. Heat – 8:10.77
  2. Final – 8:10.02 (→ 7th place)

Women's 4x100 m Medley Relay

• Catalina Căsaru, Beatrice Caslaru, Loredana Zisu, and Luminiţa Dobrescu
  1. Heat – 4:16.18 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Women's Singles Competition

• Catalina Cristea
  1. First round — Lost to Anke Huber (Germany) 6-2 4-6 2-6

• Ruxandra Dragomir
  1. First round — Lost to Jana Novotná (Czech Republic) 4-6 4-4 retired

• Preliminary Round (Group B)

• Romania – Ukraine 6-6
• Romania – Croatia 6-11
• Romania – Greece 5-8
• Romania – United States 5-10
• Romania – Italy 9-10

• Classification Matches

• 9th/12th place: Romania – Netherlands 8-10
• 9th/12th place: Romania – Ukraine 11-8
• 9th/12th place: Romania – Germany 6-10 (→ Eleventh place)

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