Romania at the 1972 Summer Olympics
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Romania competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.
Medalists
- Ivan Patzaichin — Canoeing, Men's C1 1,000m Canadian Singles
- Gheorghe Berceanu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light Flyweight
- Nicolae Martinescu — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight
- Valeria Bufanu — Athletics, Women's 100m Hurdles
- Argentina Menis — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
- Ion Alexe — Boxing, Men's Heavyweight
- Atanase Sciotnic, Roman Vartolomeu, Aurel Vernescu, and Mihai Zafiu — Canoeing, Men's K4 1000m Kayak Fours
- Serghei Covaliov and Ivan Patzaichin — Canoeing, Men's C2 1000m Canadian Pairs
- Dan Iuga — Shooting, Men's Free Pistol
- Viorica Dumitru and Maria Nichiforov — Canoeing, Women's K2 500m Kayak Pairs
- Ileana Gyulai-Drimba, Ana Pascu-Ene-Dersidan, Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic and Olga Szabo-Orban — Fencing, Women's Foil Team Competition
- Ştefan Birtalan, Adrian Cosma, Marin Dan, Alexandru Dincă, Cristian Gaţu, Gheorghe Gruia, Roland Gunesch, Gabriel Kicsid, Ghiţă Licu, Cornel Penu, Valentin Samungi, Simion Schöbel, Werner Stöckl, Constantin Tudosie, and Radu Voina — Handball, Men's Team Competition
- Nicolae Rotaru — Shooting, Men's Small-bore Rifle, prone
- Stefan Tudor, Petre Ceapura and Ladislau Lovrenschi — Rowing, Men's Coxed Pairs
- Victor Dolipschi — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Super Heavyweight
- Vasile Iorga — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight
Results by event
Men's 800 metres
- Heat — 1:50.1 (→ did not advance)
Men's 1500 metres
- Heat — 3:44.8 (→ did not advance)
Men's High Jump
- Qualifying Round — 2.15m
- Final — 2.10m (→ 16th place)
Women's Javelin Throw
- Qualification — 54.34 m
- Final — no mark (→ no ranking)
Men's Light Flyweight (– 48kg)
- First Round — Lost to Enrique Rodríguez (ESP), 2:3
Men's Light Middleweight (– 71 kg)
- First Round — Bye
- Second Round — Lost to Peter Tiepold (GDR), 1:4
Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg)
- Ion Alexe → Silver Medal
- First Round — Defeated Jozsef Reder (HUN), 5:0
- Quarterfinals — Defeated Jürgen Fanghänel (GDR), 5:0
- Semifinals — Defeated Hasse Thomsén (SWE), 5:0
- Final — Lost to Teófilo Stevenson (CUB), walk-over
Men's Individual Road Race
- Teodor Vasile — 60th place
Men's 3m Springboard:
- Ion Ganea — 325.17 points (→ 21st place)
Men's 10m Platform:
- Ion Ganea — 265.83 points (→ 25th place)
Women's 3m Springboard:
- Sorana Prelipceanu — 242.61 points (→ 21st place)
- Melania Decuseara — 232.02 points (→ 27th place)
Women's 10m Platform:
- Melania Decuseara — 182.82 points (→ 16th place)
Men's Team Competition
Romania's first round opponents in the second Olympic handball tournament included the West German team as well as Norway and Spain. Romania beat all three, concluding with a 13-11 win over the Germans, to take first place in the group and advance to the second round. There, the team defeated Hungary but was defeated by eventual gold medallist Yugoslavia to put Romania in second place in the group and relegate the team to the bronze medal game. They won the medal, defeating the East Germans 19-16.
Men's Individual Competition:
- Dumitru Spirlea - 4754 pts (→ 23rd place)
- Marian Cosmescu - 4890 (→ 38th place)
- Albert Covacs - 4381 points (→ 48th place)
Men's Team Competition:
- Spirlea, Cosmescu, and Covacs - 13655 points (→ 12th place)
Men's Coxed Pairs
Men's 100m Freestyle
- Heat — 55.35s (→ did not advance)
Men's 200m Freestyle
- Heat — 2:00.23 (→ did not advance)
Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group A)
- Lost to United States (3-4)
- Lost to Yugoslavia (7-8)
- Lost to Cuba (3-4)
- Defeated Canada (16-4)
- Defeated Mexico (9-6)
- Final Round (Group II)
- Defeated Spain (7-4)
- Defeated Bulgaria (4-3)
- Drew with the Netherlands (5-5)
- Defeated Australia (5-3) → 8th place
- Team Roster