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Vasile Andrei

Andrei at the 1980 Olympics
Personal information
Born	(1955-07-28) 28 July 1955 (age 69) Albeşti, Romania
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	100 kg (220 lb)
Sport
Sport	Greco-Roman wrestling
Club	Progresul Bucuresti Steaua București
Coached by	Dumitru Pârvulescu Gheorghe Suteu
Medal record Men's Greco-Roman wrestling Representing  Romania Olympic Games 1980 Moscow 100 kg 1984 Los Angeles 100 kg World Championships 1982 Katowice 100 kg 1986 Budapest 100 kg 1987 Clermont-Ferrand 100 kg European Championships 1979 Bucharest 100 kg 1980 Prievidza 100 kg 1987 Tampere 100 kg

Vasile Andrei (born 28 July 1955) is a retired heavyweight wrestler from Romania. He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1980 and a gold medal in 1984. At the 1984 Olympics he also placed sixth in freestyle wrestling, and in 1980 and 1988 served as flag bearer for Romania at the opening ceremony. At the world and European championships he won six medals in Greco-Roman wrestling between 1979 and 1987.

Andrei took up wrestling at Progresul Bucuresti coached by Dumitru Pârvulescu and later moved to Steaua București. After retiring from competitions he worked as a wrestling coach, and in 2000 trained the Tunisian national team.

References

1. ^ Vasile Andrei. Romanian Olympic Committee
2. "Profile: Vasile Andrei". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
3. Romania. sports-reference.com
4. Andrei, Vasile (ROU). iat.uni-leipzig.de

v t e Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman heavyweight
1908:  Richárd Weisz (HUN) 1912:  Yrjö Saarela (FIN) 1920:  Adolf Lindfors (FIN) 1924:  Henri Deglane (FRA) 1928:  Rudolf Svensson (SWE) 1932:  Carl Westergren (SWE) 1936:  Kristjan Palusalu (EST) 1948:  Ahmet Kireççi (TUR) 1952:  Johannes Kotkas (URS) 1956:  Anatoly Parfyonov (URS) 1960:  Ivan Bogdan (URS) 1964:  István Kozma (HUN) 1968:  István Kozma (HUN) 1972:  Nicolae Martinescu (ROM) 1976:  Nikolay Balboshin (URS) 1980:  Georgi Raykov (BUL) 1984:  Vasile Andrei (ROM) 1988:  Andrzej Wroński (POL) 1992:  Héctor Milián (CUB) 1996:  Andrzej Wroński (POL) 2000:  Mikael Ljungberg (SWE) 2004:  Karam Gaber (EGY) 2008:  Aslanbek Khushtov (RUS) 2012:  Ghasem Rezaei (IRI) 2016:  Artur Aleksanyan (ARM) 2020:  Musa Evloev (ROC) 2024:  Mohammad Hadi Saravi (IRI)
1912–1928: +82.5 kg 1932–1960: +87 kg 1964–1968: +97 kg 1972–1996: 100 kg 2000: 97 kg 2004–2012: 96 kg 2016: 98 kg 2020–present: 97 kg

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