Romania at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Romania at the 1980 Winter Olympics
IOC code	ROU (ROM used at these Games)
NOC	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
Website	www.cosr.ro  (in Romanian, English, and French)
in Lake Placid
Competitors	35 (33 men, 2 women) in 4 sports
Flag bearer	Gheorghe Lixandru [1]
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Romania competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ROU-1	Dragoş Panaitescu-Rapan Gheorghe Lixandru	Two-man	1:03.99	13	1:04.30	13	1:03.75	12	1:04.00	12	4:16.04	11
ROU-2	Constantin Iancu Constantin Obreja	Two-man	1:04.58	16	1:04.52	15	1:04.76	19	1:04.77	18	4:18.63	18

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ROU-1	Dragoş Panaitescu-Rapan Dorel Cristudor Sandu Mitrofan Gheorghe Lixandru	Four-man	1:01.42	10	1:01.32	9	1:00.61	9	1:01.33	9	4:04.68	8
ROU-2	Constantin Iancu Ion Duminicel Doru Frîncu Constantin Obreja	Four-man	1:01.85	17	1:02.16	16	1:01.74	15	1:01.76	13	4:07.51	14

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics

First round - Blue Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to Consolation Round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Sweden	5	4	0	1	26	7	9
United States	5	4	0	1	25	10	9
Czechoslovakia	5	3	2	0	34	16	6
Romania	5	1	3	1	13	29	3
West Germany	5	1	4	0	21	30	2
Norway	5	0	4	1	9	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980 16:30

Romania

6 – 4 (1–1, 2–3, 3–0)

West Germany

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

				Referee: Neagles
	Costea (Moroşan) (PP) - 5:15 1 – 0 1 – 1 11:50 - Vacatko (Philipp, Krüll) 1 – 2 22:37 - Truntschka (Egen, Kiessling) Costea (E. Antal, Tureanu) (PP) - 24:46 2 – 2 2 – 3 26:13 - Vacatko (Kuhl, Philipp) 2 – 4 35:34 - Egen (Scharf) (PP) Tureanu (Gall, Costea) - 37:46 3 – 4 Tureanu (Costea) - 44:12 4 – 4 Tureanu (Gall) - 46:30 5 – 4 Olenici - 53:17 6 – 4
	16 min	Penalties	16 min
	38	Shots	53

14 February 1980 13:00

Romania

0 – 8 (0–3, 0–4, 0–1)

Sweden

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

				Referee: Karl-Gustav Kaisla
	0 – 1 00:40 - Åhlberg (Näslund) 0 – 2 05:59 - Lundqvist (Samuelsson, Berglund) 0 – 3 07:42 - J. Eriksson (Waltin) 0 – 4 21:50 - T. Eriksson (Söderström, Molin) (PP) 0 – 5 28:05 - Molin 0 – 6 32:31 - Molin (Berglund) 0 – 7 37:17 - Lundholm (H. Eriksson) 0 – 8 50:18 - Jonsson (Holmgren)
	26 min	Penalties	15 min
	19	Shots	44

16 February 1980 13:00

Romania

2 – 7 (0–2, 1–3, 1–2)

Czechoslovakia

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Josef Kompalla
	0 – 1 13:35 - P. Šťastný (Bubla, A. Šťastný) 0 – 2 19:00 - Lukáč (Nový, Pouzar) Cazacu (Halauca, Sólyom) - 21:39 1 – 2 1 – 3 26:07 - Kadlec 1 – 4 28:43 - Nový (Pouzar, Kaberle) 1 – 5 33:41 - P. Šťastný 1 – 6 41:46 - Lukáč (Neliba) Cazacu (Gall) - 44:08 2 – 6 2 – 7 45:46 - Pouzar (Lukáč, Nový)
	6 min	Penalties	2 min
	29	Shots	45

18 February 1980 20:30

United States

7 – 2 (2–0, 2–1, 3–1)

Romania

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Dombrovski
	Schneider (Pavelich, Harrington) - 12:03 1 – 0 Strobel (Schneider, Ramesy) - 15:52 2 – 0 Wells (Verchota, Morrow) - 29:34 3 – 0 3 – 1 33:40 - Tureanu (Nistor) (PP) Schneider (Harrington) - 37:05 4 – 1 Christoff (O'Callahan) (PP) - 43:14 5 – 1 5 – 2 52:48 - Halauca (Moroşan) Broten (Eruzione) - 56:12 6 – 2 McClanahan (Johnson) - 58:09 7 – 2
	6 min	Penalties	10 min
	51	Shots	21

20 February 1980 13:00

Norway

3 – 3 (1–1, 0–1, 2–1)

Romania

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

				Referee: Vladimir Šubrt
	Foyn (Myhre, Falk Nilsen) (PP) - 00:56 1 – 0 1 – 1 05:10 - Costea (E. Antal, Tureanu) 1 – 2 31:27 - Gall (E. Antal, Axinte) 1 – 3 52:43 - Tureanu (Gall) Sethereng (Falk Nilsen, Molberg) (PP) - 58:39 2 – 3 Molberg (Myhre, Nilsen) - 59:31 3 – 3
	26 min	Penalties	18 min
	24	Shots	29

Contestants Valerian Netedu Gheorghe Huţan Mihail Lucian Popescu Ion Berdilă Şandor Gal Elöd Antal Istvan Antal Doru Moroşan George Justinian Doru Tureanu Dumitru Axinte Marian Costea Constantin Nistor Alexandru Hălăucă Laszlo Solyom Bela Nagy Cazacu Cazan Adrian Olenici Marian Pisaru Zoltan Nagy

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 1980 Winter Olympics

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ioan Apostol Cristinel Piciorea	40.757	15	41.909	16	1:22.666	15

Women

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Maria Maioru	41.071	25	41.054	21	41.120	19	41.350	22	2:44.595	21
Elena Stan	40.852	21	41.489	24	41.085	18	41.040	18	2:44.466	20

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Dezsö Jenei	40.84	30
	Vasile Coroş	40.30	27
1000 m	Dezsö Jenei	1:22.66	33
	Vasile Coroş	1:21.89	31
5000 m	Andrei Erdely	7:34.41	22
10,000 m	Andrei Erdely	15:31.73	20

References

1. "Gheorghe Lixandru". olympedia.org. Retrieved 5 January 2024.

Sources

• Official Olympic Reports Archived 2007-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com