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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	107 in 17 sports
Flag bearers	Ionela Cozmiuc; Marius Cozmiuc
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
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;

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Romania is scheduled to compete 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.

Competitors

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

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	0	1	1
Athletics	3	10	13
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	56	107

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			0

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):^[3]

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
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
Stella Rutto	Women's 3000 m steeplechase
Delvine Relin Meringor	Women's marathon	—
Joan Chelimo Melly	Women's marathon	—

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Florentina Iușco	Women's long jump
Alina Rotaru	Women's long jump
Diana Ana Maria Ion	Triple jump
Elena Andreea Taloş
Florentina Iușco
Bianca Ghelber	Women's hammer throw
Daniela Stanciu	Women's high jump
Alin Alexandru Firfirică	Discus throw
Andrei Rares Toader	Shot put
Alexandru Novac	Javelin throw

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.^[4]

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	0

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.^[5]^[6]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Cătălin Chirilă	Men's C-1 1000 m
Oleg Nuţă Ilie Sprîncean	Men's C-2 500 m

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

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.^[7]

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

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.^[8]

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	All-around

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											—
Lilia Cosman
Amalia Ghigoarță
Andreea Preda
Sabrina Voinea
Total

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.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Qualification						Final
Athlete	Event	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank	Hoop	Ball	Clubs	Ribbon	Total	Rank
Annaliese Drăgan	Individual

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	0

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
Andrei-Sebastian Cornea Marian Enache	Double sculls					—
Florin Horodisteanu Marius-Gabriel Lungu Iliuta-Leontin Nuțescu Ioan Prundeanu	Quadruple sculls					—
Florin Arteni Nicu-Iulian Chelaru	Coxless pair					—
Bogdan-Sabin Baitoc Alexandru-Laurențiu Danciu Andrei Mândrilă Ciprian Tudosă	Coxless four					—
Constantin Adam Ștefan Berariu Sergiu Bejan Marius Cozmiuc Florin Lehaci Claudiu Neamțu Mugurel Semciuc Mihăiță Țigănescu Adrian Munteanu (cox)	Eight					—

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
Ancuța Bodnar Andrada-Maria Moroșanu	Double sculls
Emanuela-Ioana Ciotău Patricia Cireș Ioana-Madalina Moroșan Alexandra Ungureanu	Quadruple sculls
Denisa Tîlvescu Ioana Vrînceanu	Coxless pair
Iulia-Liliana Balaucă Larisa Bogdan Maria Lehaci Maria-Magdalena Rusu	Coxless four
Adriana Adam Roxana Anghel Amalia Bereș Mădălina Bereș Iuliana Buhuș Dumitrița Juncănariu Iuliana Popa Simona Radiș Victoria-Ștefania Petreanu (cox)	Eight

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	11	12	13	14	15	M*	Net points	Final rank
Ebru Bolat	Women's ILCA 6											—

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)):^[10]^[11]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
David Popovici	100 m freestyle
David Popovici	200 m freestyle
Vlad Stancu	800 m freestyle			—
Vlad Stancu	1500 m freestyle			—

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Rebecca Aimee Diaconescu	200 m freestyle

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.^[12] 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 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ovidiu Ionescu	Men's singles
Eduard Ionescu	Men's singles
Bernadette Szőcs	Women's singles
Elizabeta Samara	Women's singles
Adina Diaconu Elizabeta Samara Bernadette Szőcs	Women's team	—
Ovidiu Ionescu Bernadette Szőcs	Mixed doubles	—

Tennis

Romania entered four tennis players into the Olympic tournament.

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
Ana Bogdan
Jaqueline Cristian
Irina-Camelia Begu Monica Niculescu	Women's doubles	—
Ana Bogdan Jaqueline Cristian	Women's doubles	—

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

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	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Romania men's	Men's tournament

Men's tournament

Romania men's national water polo team qualified for the Olympics, after South Africa withdrew.^[13]

Team roster

The roster was announced on 10 July 2024.^[14]

Head coach: Bogdan Rath^[15]

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
Loredana Toma	Women's −71 kg

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.