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Romania at the 1924 Summer Olympics
IOC code	ROU
NOC	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
Website	www.cosr.ro (in Romanian, English, and French)
in Paris
Competitors	35 in 4 sports
Medals Ranked 23rd	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 1 Total 1
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Romania competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. It was the first time that Romania sent a team to compete at the Olympic Games, and the second appearance overall after a lone Romanian athlete competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics. 35 competitors, all men, took part in 7 events in 4 sports.

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Bronze Romania national rugby union team Nicolae Anastasiade Dumitru Armăşel Gheorghe Benţia J. Cociociaho Constantin Cratunescu Teodor Florian Petre Ghiţulescu Ion Gîrleşteanu Octav Luchide Jean Henry Manu Nicolae Mărăscu Teodor Marian Sorin Mihăilescu Paul Nedelcovici Iosif Nemeş Eugen Sfetescu Mircea Sfetescu Soare Sterian Mircea Stroescu Atanasie Tănăsescu Mihai Vardala Paul Vidraşcu Dumitru Volvoreanu Rugby union May 18

Medals by sport Sport Total Rugby union 0 0 1 1 Total 0 0 1 1 Medals by gender Gender Total Male 0 0 1 1 Female Total 0 0 1 1

Football

Romania competed in the Olympic football tournament for the first time in 1924.

Round 1

Did not compete in first round

Round 2

Netherlands	6–0	Romania
Hurgronje 8' Pijl 32', 52', 66', 68' de Natris 69' (pen.)	Report

Final rank

9th place

Rugby union

Romania sent a rugby team to the Olympics for the first time in 1924. The Romanians were defeated handily by each of the two other teams, finishing third in the three-team round-robin and winning bronze medals.

Ranks given are within the pool.

Team	Event	Round robin
		Wins	Losses	Points for	Points against	Rank
Romania	Men's rugby union	0	2	3	98

Shooting

Five sport shooters represented Romania in 1924.

Tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 128	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Gheorghe Lupu	Singles	del Canto (MEX) W 6–4, 6–3, 6–4	Washburn (USA) L 2–6, 3–6, 4–6	did not advance
Nicolae Mişu	Singles	Washer (BEL) L 3–6, 4–6, 2–6	did not advance
Alexandru Roman	Singles	N/A	von Kehrling (HUN) L 1–6, 1–6, 2–6	did not advance
Gheorghe Lupu Alexandru Roman	Doubles	—	Torralva / Torralva (CHI) L 5–7, 2–6, 3–6	did not advance

References

1. "Romania at the 1924 Paris Summer Games". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 24 December 2014.

External links

• Official Olympic Reports Archived 12 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine
• International Olympic Committee results database

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