Romania at the 2024 Summer Olympics

Romania at the
2024 Summer Olympics
Romania at the; 2024 Summer Olympics
IOC code	ROU
NOC	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
Website	www.cosr.ro (in Romanian, English, and French)
in Paris, France; 26 July 2024 – 11 August 2024
Competitors	106 in 17 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Marius Cozmiuc & Ionela Cozmiuc
Flag bearer (closing)	Mihaela Cambei
Medals; Ranked 23rd	Gold 3 Silver 4 Bronze 2 Total 9
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; 2024;

Romania competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024, celebrating the centenary of the team's official debut in the same venue. Although the nation's participation started in 1900, Romanian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games from 1924 onwards, except for two occasions: the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles during the period of the worldwide Great Depression, and the 1948 Summer Olympics in London because of the nation's role in World War II.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	David Popovici	Swimming	Men's 200 m freestyle	July 29
Gold	Andrei Cornea Marian Enache	Rowing	Men's double sculls	August 1
Gold	Adriana Adam Roxana Anghel Amalia Bereș Ancuța Bodnar Maria Lehaci Victoria-Ștefania Petreanu Maria-Magdalena Rusu Simona Radiș Ioana Vrînceanu	Rowing	Women's eight	August 3
Silver	Ancuța Bodnar Simona Radiș	Rowing	Women's double sculls	August 1
Silver	Roxana Anghel Ioana Vrînceanu	Rowing	Women's coxless pair	August 2
Silver	Ionela Cozmiuc Gianina van Groningen	Rowing	Women's lightweight double sculls	August 2
Silver	Mihaela Cambei	Weightlifting	Women's 49 kg	August 7
Bronze	David Popovici	Swimming	Men's 100 m freestyle	July 31
Bronze	Ana Bărbosu	Gymnastics	Women's floor	August 5

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Rowing	2	3	0	5
Swimming	1	0	1	2
Weightlifting	0	1	0	1
Gymnastics	0	0	1	1
Total	3	4	2	9

Medals by date
Day	Date				Total
Day 1	27 July	0	0	0	0
Day 2	28 July	0	0	0	0
Day 3	29 July	1	0	0	1
Day 4	30 July	0	0	0	0
Day 5	31 July	0	0	1	1
Day 6	1 August	1	1	0	2
Day 7	2 August	0	2	0	2
Day 8	3 August	1	0	0	1
Day 9	4 August	0	0	0	0
Day 10	5 August	0	0	1	1
Day 11	6 August	0	0	0	0
Day 12	7 August	0	1	0	1
Day 13	8 August	0	0	0	0
Day 14	9 August	0	0	0	0
Day 15	10 August	0	0	0	0
Day 16	11 August	0	0	0	0
Total		3	4	2	9

Medals by gender
Gender				Total
Male	2	0	1	3
Female	1	4	1	6
Mixed	0	0	0	0
Total	3	4	2	9

Multiple medalists
Name	Sport				Total
Roxana Anghel	Rowing	1	1	0	2
Ancuța Bodnar	Rowing	1	1	0	2
Simona Radiș	Rowing	1	1	0	2
Ioana Vrînceanu	Rowing	1	1	0	2
David Popovici	Swimming	1	0	1	2

Competitors

The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games:

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	0	1	1
Athletics	3	9	12
Boxing	0	1	1
Canoeing	3	0	3
Cycling	1	0	1
Fencing	0	1	1
Gymnastics	1	6	7
Judo	1	0	1
Rowing	22	23	45
Sailing	0	1	1
Swimming	2	1	3
Table tennis	2	3	5
Tennis	0	4	4
Triathlon	1	0	1
Water polo	13	0	13
Weightlifting	0	2	2
Wrestling	2	3	5
Total	51	55	106

Archery

Romania qualified one female archer to compete in the individual recurve event, through the final release of the Olympic ranking for Paris 2024.

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mădălina Amăistroaie	Women's individual	637	47	Moshe (ISR) W 7–1	Rebagliati (ITA) W 7–3	Nam (KOR) L 2–6	Did not advance

Athletics

Romanian track and field athletes achieved the entry standards for Paris 2024, either by passing the direct qualifying mark (or time for track and road races) or by world ranking, in the following events (a maximum of 3 athletes each):^[4]

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
SB = season's best (the best mark achieved by an athlete on a personal level within a given season)
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track and road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Repechage		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Andrea Miklós	Women's 400 m	50.54	3 Q	Bye		50.78	5	Did not advance
Stella Rutto	Women's 3000 m steeplechase	9:31.23	8	—				Did not advance
Delvine Relin Meringor	Women's marathon	—						2:24:56 SB	7
Joan Chelimo Melly	Women's marathon	—						DNF

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Alina Rotaru	Long jump	6.63	9 q	6.67	7
Diana Ana Maria Ion	Triple jump	14.03	13	Did not advance
Elena Andreea Taloș	Triple jump	14.23	9 q	14.03	10
Bianca Ghelber	Women's hammer throw	71.42	11 q	72.36	9
Daniela Stanciu	Women's high jump	1.88	19	Did not advance
Alin Alexandru Firfirică	Discus throw	63.66	11 q	64.45	11
Andrei Rareș Toader	Shot put	20.24	18	Did not advance
Alexandru Novac	Javelin throw	81.08	17	Did not advance

Boxing

Romania entered one boxer into the Olympic tournament. Lenuța Perijoc scored an outright quarterfinal victory to secure a spot in the women's bantamweight division at the 2023 European Games in Nowy Targ, Poland.^[5]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lăcrămioara Perijoc	Women's bantamweight	Bye	Enkhjargal (MGL) L 1–4	Did not advance

Canoeing

Sprint

Romanian canoeists qualified two boats in each of the following distances for the Games through the 2023 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Duisburg, Germany.^[6]^[7]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Cătălin Chirilă	Men's C-1 1000 m	3:44.75	1	Bye		3:45.78	5 FB	3:47.48	9
Oleg Nuță Ilie Sprîncean	Men's C-2 500 m	1:40.84	5	1:40.00	2	1:43.42	5 FB	1:43.80	9

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

Cycling

Mountain biking

Romanian mountain bikers secured one men quota place for the Olympic through the release of the final Olympic mountain biking rankings.

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ede-Károly Molnár	Men's cross-country	Did not finish^[8]

Fencing

Romania entered one fencer into the Olympic competition. Mălina Călugăreanu qualified for the games by winning the 2024 Europe Zonal Qualifying Tournament in Differdange, Luxembourg.^[9]

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
Mălina Călugăreanu	Women's foil	Bye	Ueno (JPN) W 15–13	Volpi (ITA) L 9–15	Did not advance

Gymnastics

Artistic

Romania fielded a squad of five women gymnasts for Paris after advancing to the final round of team all-around, and obtained one of nine available team spots for nations, not yet qualified, at the 2023 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. Romania qualified one gymnast, Andrei Muntean, by being among the highest-ranked eligible athlete in the all-around at the 2023 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.^[10]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Andrei Muntean	Parallel bars	—				14.366	—	14.366	25	Did not advance^[11]

Women
Team

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank	V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank
Ana Bărbosu	Team	13.800	12.600	13.533	13.600 Q	53.533	14 Q	13.933	12.433	12.700	13.566	—
Lilia Cosman		13.500	11.333	~~12.833~~	~~12.466~~	50.132	50	13.433	13.133	—
Amalia Ghigoarță		~~13.000~~	13.066	13.266	13.333	52.665	19 Q	—	13.333	12.500	13.133
Andreea Preda		—	~~10.933~~	—				—
Sabrina Voinea		13.666	—	14.000 Q	13.800 Q	—		13.633	—	13.800	13.900
Total		40.966	36.999	40.799	40.733	159.497	8 Q	40.999	38.899	39.000	40.599	159.497	7

Individual finals

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
		Apparatus				Total	Rank	Apparatus				Total	Rank
		V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank	V	UB	BB	F	Total	Rank
Ana Bărbosu	All-around	See team results above						14.000	12.433	12.466	13.566	52.465	17
Amalia Ghigoarță	All-around	See team results above						13.100	12.566	11.900	13.166	50.732	22
Sabrina Voinea	Balance beam	—		14.000	—	14.000	5 Q	—		11.733	—	11.733	8
Ana Bărbosu	Floor	—			13.600	13.600	8 Q	—			13.700	13.700	^[12]
Sabrina Voinea	Floor	—			13.800	13.800	4 Q	—			13.700	13.700	4

Rhythmic

Romania entered one rhythmic gymnast into the individual all-around tournament by virtue of top fifteen eligible nation's results at the 2023 World Championships in Valencia, Spain.^[13]

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
Athlete	Event	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Annaliese Drăgan	Individual	27.200	30.550	31.650	25.450	114.850	21	Did not advance

Judo

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Alex Creț	–90 kg	Tóth (HUN) W 10–0	Macedo (BRA) L 0–10	Did not advance

Rowing

Romanian rowers qualified boats in each of the following classes through the 2023 World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia and 2024 Final Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mihai Chiruță	Men's single sculls	6:51.51	1 QF	Bye		6:46.32	3 SA/B	6:52.95	5 FB	6:44.83	7
Andrei-Sebastian Cornea Marian Enache	Double sculls	6:16.47	1 SA/B	Bye		—		6:15.73	3 FA	6:12.58
Florin Horodișteanu Andrei Lungu Iliuță-Leontin Nuțescu Ioan Prundeanu	Quadruple sculls	5:51.14	5 R	5:56.32	5 FB	—				5:54.77	9
Florin Arteni Florin Lehaci	Coxless pair	6:40.29	2 SA/B	Bye		—		6:29.86	1 FA	6:25.61	4
Sergiu Bejan Ștefan Berariu Andrei Mândrilă Ciprian Tudosă	Coxless four	6:06.60	3 R	5:53.52	2 FA	—				5:56.85	5
Constantin Adam Bogdan Baitoc Ștefan Berariu Marius Cozmiuc Florin Lehaci Claudiu Neamțu Mugurel Semciuc Mihăiță Țigănescu Adrian Munteanu (cox)	Eight	5:55.82	4 R	5:30.00	3 FA	—				5:30.15	5

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ionela Cozmiuc Gianina van Groningen	Lightweight double sculls	7:03.83	1 SA/B	Bye		6:56.65	1 FA	6:48.78
Ancuța Bodnar Simona Radiș	Double sculls	6:48.49	1 SA/B	Bye		6:51.41	1 FA	6:50.69
Emanuela-Ioana Ciotău Patricia Cireș Ioana-Madalina Moroșan Alexandra Ungureanu	Quadruple sculls	6:24.74	4 R	6:33.84	4 FB	—		6:29.64	7
Roxana Anghel Ioana Vrînceanu	Coxless pair	7:24.27	1 SA/B	Bye		7:14.53	2 FA	7:02.97
Adriana Adam Amalia Bereș Maria Lehaci Maria-Magdalena Rusu	Coxless four	6:44.55	2 FA	Bye		—		6:29.52	4
Adriana Adam Roxana Anghel Amalia Bereș Ancuța Bodnar Maria Lehaci Maria-Magdalena Rusu Simona Radiș Ioana Vrînceanu Victoria-Ștefania Petreanu (cox)	Eight	6:12.31	1 FA	Bye		—		5:54.39

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

Sailing

Romanian sailors qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2024 Last Chance Regatta in Hyères.

Medal race events

Athlete	Event	Race											Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	M*	Net points	Final rank
Ebru Bolat	Women's ILCA 6	28	16	32	5	14	21	24	26	24	Cancelled	EL	158	23

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Swimming

Romanian swimmers achieved the entry standards in the following events for Paris 2024 (a maximum of two swimmers under the Olympic Qualifying Time (OST) and potentially at the Olympic Consideration Time (OCT)):^[14]^[15] Popovici won Romania's first gold medal in men's swimming at the Olympic Games.^[16]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
David Popovici	100 m freestyle	47.92	3 Q	47.66	5 Q	47.49
David Popovici	200 m freestyle	1:45.65	1Q	1:44.53	1Q	1:44.72
Vlad Stancu	800 m freestyle	8:20.78	30	—		Did not advance
Vlad Stancu	1500 m freestyle	Did not start^[17]

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rebecca Diaconescu	200 m freestyle	1:59.29	16 Q	1:59.58	16	Did not advance

Table tennis

Romania entered a full squad of female table tennis player into the Games, by advancing to the quarter-finals round, through the 2024 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea.^[18] The nations also entered a mixed doubles pair into the games through the allocations of world ranking; and two men's singles players (Ovidiu Ionescu and Eduard Ionescu) through the release of the final world ranking.

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ovidiu Ionescu	Men's singles	Bye	Gaćina (CRO) L 1–4	Did not advance
Eduard Ionescu	Men's singles	Bye	Aruna (NGR) W 4–3	Kao (TPE) L 1–4	Did not advance
Bernadette Szőcs	Women's singles	Bye	Zhou (SGP) W 4–1	Pesotska (UKR) W 4–1	Polcanova (AUT) L 0–4	Did not advance
Elizabeta Samara	Women's singles	Bye	Brateyko (UKR) W 4–3	Cheng (TPE) L 2–4	Did not advance
Adina Diaconu Elizabeta Samara Bernadette Szőcs	Women's team	—			India (IND) L 2–3	Did not advance
Ovidiu Ionescu Bernadette Szőcs	Mixed doubles	—			Lum / Jee (AUS) W 4–1	Lim (KOR) Shin (KOR) L 0–4	Did not advance

Tennis

Romania entered four tennis players into the Olympic tournament. None advanced to the final rounds.^[19]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Irina-Camelia Begu	Women's singles	Świątek (POL) L 2–6, 5–7	Did not advance
Ana Bogdan		Paolini (ITA) L 5–7, 3–6	Did not advance
Jaqueline Cristian		Garcia (FRA) W 5–7, 6–3, 6–3	Kerber (GER) L 4–6, 6–3, 4–6	Did not advance
Irina-Camelia Begu Monica Niculescu	Women's doubles	—	Hsieh / Tsao (TPE) L 6–7^(2–7), 5–7	Did not advance
Ana Bogdan Jaqueline Cristian	Women's doubles	—	Aoyama / Shibahara (JPN) L 2–6, 3–6	Did not advance

Triathlon

Romania entered one triathlete to compete at the Olympics for the second time in history. French-born Felix Duchampt topped the field of triathletes vying for qualification from Europe in the men's event based on the final release of individual ITU World Rankings.

Athlete	Event	Time						Rank
Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total	Rank
Felix Duchampt	Men's	23:05	0:50	56:35	0:30	35:00	1:56:00	50

Water polo

Summary

Key:

FT – After full time.
P – Match decided by penalty-shootout.

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Romania men's	Men's tournament	Greece L 7–14	United States L 8–14	Croatia L 8–11	Italy L 7–18	Montenegro L 7–10	6	Did not advance			12

Men's tournament

Romania men's national water polo team qualified for the Olympics, after South Africa withdrew.^[20]

Team roster

The roster was announced on 10 July 2024.^[21]

Head coach: Bogdan Rath^[22]

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	PSW	PSL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Greece	5	3	1	0	1	61	52	+9	11^[a]	Quarterfinals
2	Italy	5	3	1	0	1	60	43	+17	11^[a]
3	United States	5	3	0	0	2	59	51	+8	9^[b]
4	Croatia	5	3	0	0	2	58	57	+1	9^[b]
5	Montenegro	5	1	0	2	2	45	50	−5	5
6	Romania	5	0	0	0	5	37	67	−30	0

Source: Olympics
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Head-to-head points; 3) Head-to-head goal difference; 4) Head-to-head goals scored; 5) Goal difference.
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Greece 9–8 Italy
^ ^a ^b Croatia 11–14 United States

28 July 2024 (2024-07-28) 21:05 v	Report	Romania	7–14	Greece	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Michiel Zwart (NED), Zhang Liang (CHN)
		Score by quarters: 2–4, 3–5, 1–2, 1–3
		Georgescu, Neamțu 2	Goals	Argyropoulos 4

30 July 2024 (2024-07-30) 16:35 v	Report	United States	14–8	Romania	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: David Gómez (ESP), Nicholas Hodgers (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 3–0, 4–1, 4–4
		Bowen, Daube 3	Goals	Colodrovschi, Georgescu 3

1 August 2024 (2024-08-01) 19:30 v	Report	Romania	8–11	Croatia	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Tamás Kovács (HUN), Chisato Kurosaki (JPN)
		Score by quarters: 0–3, 3–3, 4–5, 1–0
		Fulea, Țepeluș 2	Goals	three players 2

3 August 2024 (2024-08-03) 21:05 v	Report	Italy	18–7	Romania	Paris Aquatic Centre, Paris Referees: Tamás Kovács (HUN), Nicholas Hodgers (AUS)
		Score by quarters: 6–2, 4–1, 5–1, 3–3
		three players 3	Goals	Colodrovschi 3

5 August 2024 (2024-08-05) 21:40 v	Report	Romania	7–10	Montenegro	Paris La Défense Arena, Paris Referees: Boris Margeta (SLO), Yasser Mehalhel (EGY)
		Score by quarters: 3–3, 1–2, 1–2, 2–3
		Fulea 2	Goals	Mršić 3

Weightlifting

Romania entered two weightlifters into the Olympic competition. Mihaela Cambei (women's 49 kg) and Loredana Toma (women's 71 kg), secured one of the top ten slots in their respective weight divisions based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings.

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Mihaela Cambei	Women's −49 kg	93 kg	1	112 kg	3	205
Loredana Toma	Women's −71 kg	115 kg	3	~~134~~	–	–	DNF

Wrestling

Romania entered five wrestlers into the Olympic competition. Andreea Ana qualified for the games by winning the semifinal match at the 2024 European Qualification Tournament in Baku, Azerbaijan; meanwhile Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu, Kriszta Incze and Cătălina Axente qualified for the games through the 2024 World Qualification Tournament in Istanbul, Turkey, then Răzvan Arnăut joined the squads due to reallocations of Individual Neutral Athletes (AIN)claimed by the IOC.