Romania competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR. 228 competitors, 154 men and 74 women, took part in 135 events in 20 sports.
Medalists
| style="text-align:left; width:72%; vertical-align:top;"| Medal Name Sport Event Date Toma Simionov and Ivan Patzaichin Canoeing C2 1000m Nadia Comăneci Gymnastics Balance Beam Nadia Comăneci Gymnastics Floor Exercises Sanda Toma Rowing Single sculls Corneliu Ion Shooting Rapid-Fire Pistol Ștefan Rusu Wrestling Greco-Roman Lightweight Vasile Dîba, Nicușor Eșanu, Ion Geanta, and Mihai Zafiu Canoeing K4 1000m Petre Capusta and Ivan Patzaichin Canoeing C2 500m Nadia Comăneci Gymnastics All-Around Individual Emilia Eberle Gymnastics Asymmetrical Bars Nadia Comăneci, Rodica Dunca, Emilia Eberle, Cristina Elena Grigoraș, Melita Ruhn, and Dumitriţa Turner Gymnastics Team Combined Exercises Constantin Alexandru Wrestling Greco-Roman Light Flyweight Dumitru Cipere Boxing Bantamweight Valentin Silaghi Boxing Middleweight Vasile Dîba Canoeing K1 500m Ion Bîrlădeanu Canoeing K1 1000m Anghelache Donescu, Petre Rosca and Durnitru Velicu Equestrian Dressage Team Melita Ruhn Gymnastics Side Horse Vault Melita Ruhn Gymnastics Uneven Bars Ştefan Birtalan, Iosif Boros, Adrian Cosma, Cezar Draganita, Marian Dumitru, Cornel Durau, Alexandru Fölker, Claudiu Eugen Ionescu, Nicolae Munteanu, Vasile Stinga, Lucian Vasilache, Neculai Vasilca, Radu Voina, and Maricel Voinea Handball Team Competition Olga Homeghi and Valeria Răcilă Rowing Double Sculls Angelica Aposteanu, Elena Bondar, Florica Bucur, Maria Constantinescu, Elena Dobrițoiu, Rodica Frintu, Ana Iliuță, and Marlena Zagoni-Predescu Rowing Eights Marius Cata-Chitiga, Valter-Corneliu Chifu, Laurentiu Dumanoiu, Günther Enescu, Dan Girleanu, Sorin Macavei, Corneliu Oros, Neculae Vasile Pop, Constantin Sterea, and Nicu Stoian Volleyball Team Competition Petre Dicu Wrestling Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight Vasile Andrei Wrestling Greco-Roman Heavyweight
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Medals by sportSport TotalBoxing 002 2Canoeing 122 5Equestrian 001 1Gymnastics 232 7Handball 001 1Rowing 102 3Shooting 100 1Volleyball 001 1Wrestling 112 4Total661325
Medals by genderGender TotalMale Female Total661325
Archery
In its first appearance at the Olympic archery competition, Romania was represented by two men and two women. The best result for the nation was earned by Aurora Chin, at 13th place.
Women's Individual Competition: Aurora Chin – 2319 pts (→ 13th place) Terezia Preda – 2195 pts (→ 24th place)
Men's Individual Competition: Andrei Berki – 2389 pts (→ 15th place) Mihai Birzu – 2280 pts (→ 25th place)
Athletics
Men's 10,000 metres Ilie Floroiu Heat — 29:03.1 Final — 28:16.3 (→ 10th place)
Men's 400 m Hurdles Horia Toboc Heat — 50.89 Semifinals — 50.58 Final — 49.84 (→ 6th place)
Men's 3,000 m Steeplechase Vasile Bichea Heat — 8:35.4 Semifinals — 8:24.3 Final — 8:23.9 (→ 9th place)
Paul Copu Heat — 8:45.6 Semifinals — 8:45.0 (→ did not advance)
Nicolae Voicu Heat — 8:49.0 (→ did not advance)
Men's High Jump Adrian Proteasa Qualification — 2.21 m Final — 2.21 m (→ 7th place)
Sorin Matei Qualification — 2.21 m Final — 2.18 m (→ 13th place)
Men's Discus Throw Iosif Nagy Qualification — 59.34 m (→ did not advance, 14th place)
Women's 800 metres Doina Melinte Heat — 2:01.9 Semifinals — 2:00.8 (→ did not advance)
Fiţa Lovin Heat — 2:00.2 Semifinals — 1:59.2 (→ did not advance)
Women's 1,500 metres Maricica Puică Heat — 4:01.7 Final — 4:01.3 (→ 7th place)
Ileana Silai Heat — 4:04.7 Final — 4:03.0 (→ 8th place)
Natalia Mărășescu Heat — 4:05.9 Final — 4:04.8 (→ 9th place)
Women's High Jump Cornelia Popa Qualification — 1.88 m Final — 1.88 m (→ 8th place)
Women's Discus Throw Florenţa Ţacu Qualification — 60.40 m Final — 64.38 m (→ 6th place)
Women's Javelin Throw Éva Ráduly-Zörgő Qualification — 63.84 m Final — 64.08 m (→ 7th place)
Boxing
Men's Light Flyweight (48 kg) Dumitru Şchiopu First Round — Defeated Adel Hammoude (Syria) after knock-out in second round Second Round — Defeated Antti Juntumaa (Finland) on points (4-1) Quarter Finals — Lost to Li Byong-Uk (North Korea) on points (4-1)
Men's Flyweight (51 kg) Daniel Radu First Round — Bye Second Round — Defeated Keith Wallace (Great Britain) on points (4-1) Quarter Finals — Lost to János Váradi (Hungary) on points (1-4)
Men's Bantamweight (54 kg) Dumitru Cipere → Bronze Medal First Round — Defeated Mario Behrendt (East Germany) on points (5-0) Second Round — Defeated Lucky Mutale (Zambia) on points (5-0) Third Round — Defeated Ryszard Czerwinski (Poland) on points (5-0) Quarter Finals — Defeated Samson Khachatrian (Soviet Union) on points (4-1) Semi Finals — Lost to Bernardo Piñango (Venezuela) on points (2-3)
Men's Featherweight (57 kg) Titi Cercel First Round — Bye Second Round — Defeated Róbert Gönczi (Hungary) on points (5-0) Third Round — Lost to Adolfo Horta (Cuba) on points (0-5)
Men's Lightweight (60 kg) Florian Livadaru First Round — Defeated Tadesse Haile (Ethiopia) after disqualification in third round Second Round — Defeated Sean Doyle (Ireland) after referee stopped contest in first round Quarter Finals — Lost to Kazimierz Adach (Poland) after referee stopped contest in third round
Men's Light-Welterweight (63,5 kg) Simion Cuçov First Round — Lost to Serik Konakbaev (Soviet Union) on points (0-5)
Men's Heavyweight (+ 81 kg) Teodor Pîrjol First Round — Lost to Francesco Damiani (Italy) on points (1-4)
Canoeing
Cycling
Three cyclists represented Romania in 1980.
Individual road race Mircea Romaşcanu Teodor Vasile Stan Nicolae
Diving
Men's Springboard Alexandru Adrian Bagiu Preliminary round — 427.35 points (→ 23rd place, did not advance)
Equestrian
Fencing
18 fencers, 13 men and 5 women, represented Romania in 1980.
Men's foil Petru Kuki Mihai Ţiu Tudor Petruş
Men's team foil Petru Kuki, Mihai Ţiu, Sorin Roca, Tudor Petruş
Men's épée Ioan Popa Anton Pongratz Octavian Zidaru
Men's team épée Ioan Popa, Octavian Zidaru, Anton Pongratz, Costică Bărăgan
Men's sabre Cornel Marin Ioan Pop Marin Mustaţă
Men's team sabre Ioan Pop, Marin Mustaţă, Cornel Marin, Ion Pantelimonescu, Alexandru Nilca
Women's foil Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic Marcela Moldovan-Zsak Suzana Ardeleanu
Women's team foil Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, Marcela Moldovan-Zsak, Viorica Ţurcanu, Suzana Ardeleanu, Aurora Dan
Gymnastics
Handball
Men's team competition Preliminary round (Group B) Defeated Kuwait (32-12) Defeated Algeria (26-18) Lost to Yugoslavia (21-23) Defeated Soviet Union (22-19) Defeated Switzerland (18-16) Classification Match Bronze medal match: Defeated Hungary (20-18) → Bronze Medal
Team Roster Nicolae Munteanu Marian Dumitru Iosif Boros Maricel Voinea Vasile Stîngă Radu Voina Cezar Draganita Cornel Durau Ştefan Birtalan Alexandru Fölker Neculai Vasilca Lucian Vasilache Adrian Cosma Claudiu Eugen Ionescu
Judo
Modern pentathlon
Three male pentathletes represented Romania in 1980.
Men's Individual Competition: Dumitru Spîrlea — 5058 pts, 22nd place Gyula Galovici — 4,935 pts, 27th place Cezar Răducanu — 4,397 pts, 41st place
Men's Team Competition: Spîrlea, Câllovits, and Râducanu — 14,390 pts, 11th place
Rowing
Sailing
Open AthleteEventRaceNet pointsFinal rank1234567Mihai ButucaruFinn1019 181013198114.015Mircea CarpAdrian ArendtFlying Dutchman1212 1311131413110.013 Andrei ChjlimanCatalin LuchianTornado1011 11101191198.011
Shooting
Open AthleteEventFinalScoreRankMircea Ilca50 metre rifle prone59611Corneliu Ion25 m rapid fire pistol596+148 Daniel Iuga50 m pistol55517 Marin Stan 25 m rapid fire pistol5957Ioan Toman Skeet19222
Swimming
Women's 100 m Breaststroke Brigitte Prass Heats — 1:15.10 (→ did not advance)
Women's 400m Individual Medley Irinel Panulescu Heats — 5:07.74 (→ did not advance)
Mariana Paraschiv Heats — 5:04.56 (→ did not advance)
Volleyball
Women's Team Competition Preliminary round (Group B) Lost to Bulgaria (1-3) Defeated Hungary (3-2) Defeated Brazil (3-2) Classification Matches 5th/8th place: Lost to Peru (0-3) 7th/8th place: Lost to Brazil (0-3) → 8th place
Team Roster Mariana Ionescu Gabriela Coman Doina Savoiu Victoria Georgescu Ileana Dobroschi Victoria Banciu Irina Petculet Crina Georgescu Iuliana Enescu Ioana Liteanu Corina Crivat Elena Piron Men's Team Competition Preliminary round, Group B Defeated Libya 3-0 (3, 1, 1) Lost to Poland 1-3 (9,-12, -13, -13) Defeated Brazil 3-1 (-11, 4, 12, 3) Defeated Yugoslavia 3-1 (9, -14, 8, 12) Semi-final Lost to Soviet Union 0-3 (-6, -10, -5) Bronze Medal Match Defeated Poland 3-1 (10, -9, 13,9) (→ Bronze Medal)
Team Roster
Corneliu Oros Laurențiu Dumănoiu Dan Gîrleanu Nicu Stoian Sorin Macovei Constantin Sterea Neculae Pop Günther Enescu Corneliu Chifu Marius Căta-Chițiga Florin Mina Viorel Manole
Water polo
Men's team competition Preliminary round (Group B) Drew with Hungary (6-6) Defeated Greece (6-4) Lost to Netherlands (3-5) Final Round (Group B) Lost to Italy (3-5) Drew with Australia (4-4) Defeated Sweden (8-3) Defeated Bulgaria (10-6) Defeated Greece (11-8) → 9th place
Team Roster Doru Spînu Vasile Ungureanu Dorin Viorel Costras Adrian Nastasiu Dinu Popescu Claudiu loan Rusu Ilie Slâvei Liviu Râducanu Viorel Rus Adrian Schervan Florin Slâvei
Weightlifting
Wrestling
References