Romania first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a single participant. The National Olympic Committee for Romania is the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee, and was created and recognized in 1914. The nation first sent a team to compete at the Games in 1924, and has only missed two editions each of the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then. Notably, Romania was the lone Eastern Bloc nation to participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics, which the other nations boycotted. That was also Romania's most successful Olympic Games: they won 20 gold medals and 53 medals in total.
Gymnastics is Romania's top medal-producing sport. Romania has won the third highest total number of medals (after Hungary, and Poland) of nations that have never hosted the Games.
History From the 1972 Summer Olympics through the 2012 Summer Olympics, Romania had qualified a women's team for the gymnastics team all-around. They had won medals at every Olympics from the 1976 Summer Olympics through to the 2012 Summer Games. However, the women's team failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics, ending the 40-year run in medals, and the 44-year run of having a team at the Olympics.
At the winter Olympics Romania has won only one medal, at the 1968 Winter Olympics with two-man bobsleigh team led by Ion Panțuru and Nicolae Neagoe.
Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games
Medals by Winter Games
Medals by summer sport
Medals by winter sport
Medalists
Summer medallists with minimum 2 gold Athlete Sport Years Gender GoldSilverBronzeTotalNadia Comăneci 1976–1980F5319Elisabeta Lipă 1984–2004F5218Georgeta Damian 2000–2008F5016Ivan Patzaichin 1968–1984M4307Doina Ignat 1992–2008F4116Ecaterina Szabo 1984F4105Viorica Susanu 2000–2008F4015Daniela Silivaș 1988F3216Simona Amânar 1996–2000F3137Constanța Burcică 1992–2008F3115Elena Georgescu 1992–2008F3115Cătălina Ponor 2004–2012F3115Liliana Gafencu 1996–2004F3003Veronica Cochela 1988–2000F2316Lavinia Miloșovici 1992–1996F2136Rodica Arba 1980–1988F2114Olga Homeghi 1980–1988F2114Toma Simionov 1980–1984M2103Ioana Olteanu 1992–2000F2103Ancuța Bodnar 2020–F2103Simona Radiș 2020–F2103Sandra Izbașa 2008–2012F2024Leon Rotman 1956–1960M2013Simona Păucă 1984F2013Iolanda Balaș 1960–1964F2002Marioara Popescu 1984–1996F2002Diana Mocanu 2000F2002Angela Alupei 2000–2004F2002Monica Roșu 2004F2002
Winter medallists Athlete Sport Years Gender GoldSilverBronzeTotalIon Panțuru 1968M0011Nicolae Neagoe 1968M0011
Summary by sport
Shooting
Romania's only appearance before 1924 was a single shooter at the 1900 Games, when Gheorghe Plagino placed 13th in the trap.
Games Shooters Events Gold Silver Bronze Total 1900 Paris 1 1/9 0 0 0 0 Total 6 4 5 15
See also List of flag bearers for Romania at the Olympics :Category:Olympic competitors for Romania Romania at the Paralympics Sport in Romania
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