Romania at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Romania at the 2002 Winter Olympics
IOC code	ROU
NOC	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
Website	www.cosr.ro  (in Romanian, English, and French)
in Salt Lake City
Competitors	21 (11 men, 10 women) in 8 sports
Flag bearer	Éva Tófalvi (biathlon)
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Romania competed at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States.

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1	Race 2	Total
		Time	Time	Time	Rank
Alexandra Munteanu	Downhill			1:46.29	33
Alexandra Munteanu	Super-G			1:17.84	29
Alexandra Munteanu	Giant Slalom	1:22.20	1:20.00	2:42.20	41

Women's combined

Athlete	Downhill	Slalom		Total
	Time	Time 1	Time 2	Total time	Rank
Alexandra Munteanu	1:19.53	50.77	48.23	2:58.53	22

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km sprint	Marian Blaj	1	27:25.5	42
12.5 km pursuit 2	Marian Blaj	6	39:31.2	55

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 3	Rank
20 km	Marian Blaj	54:36.8	3	57:36.8	51

Women

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
7.5 km sprint	Alexandra Rusu-Stoian	6	27:20.0	72
	Éva Tófalvi	3	24:43.7	61
	Dana Plotogea-Cojocea	1	24:17.3	55
10 km pursuit 4	Dana Plotogea-Cojocea	DNF	DNF	–

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 3	Rank
15 km	Dana Plotogea-Cojocea	52:37.0	5	57:37.0	61
	Éva Tófalvi	51:36.7	3	54:36.7	52

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² Starting delay based on 10 km sprint results.

³ One minute added per missed target.

⁴ Starting delay based on 7.5 km sprint results.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ROU-1	Adrian Duminicel Florian Enache	Two-man	48.52	26	48.51	24	48.65	25	48.75	26	3:14.43	25

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ROU-1	Florian Enache Adrian Duminicel Iulian Păcioianu Teodor Demetriad	Four-man	47.59	22	47.66	23	48.19	22	48.22	20	3:11.66	21

Women

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ROU-1	Erika Kovacs Maria Spirescu	Two-woman	50.12	14	50.62	15	1:40.74	15

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Sprint

Athlete	Qualifying round		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Zsolt Antal	3:05.24	46	did not advance

Pursuit

Athlete	10 km C		10 km F pursuit1
	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Zsolt Antal	29:13.0	59	did not advance

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
30 km F	Zsolt Antal	1'14:47.1	26

¹ Starting delay based on 10 km C. results.

C = Classical style, F = Freestyle

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Gheorghe Chiper	32.5	23	21	23

Women

Athlete	Points	SP	FS	Rank
Roxana Luca	35.0	24	23	23

Luge

Main article: Luge at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eugen Radu	56.608	49	46.096	32	46.299	36	46.324	34	3:15.327	44
Marian Tican	46.486	35	46.346	36	46.115	35	46.352	35	3:05.299	34
Ion Cristian Stanciu	46.176	32	46.203	34	46.080	34	46.155	31	3:04.614	32

(Men's) Doubles

Athletes	Run 1		Run 2		Total
	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Eugen Radu Marian Tican	43.901	15	43.945	16	1:27.846	15
Ion Cristian Stanciu Robert Taleanu	43.977	16	43.979	17	1:27.956	16

Short track speed skating

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Round one		Quarter finals		Semi finals		Finals
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Final rank
Katalin Kristo	500 m	46.956	3	did not advance
Katalin Kristo	1000 m	1:42.276	3	did not advance
Katalin Kristo	1500 m	2:28.709	4	did not advance

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
1000 m	Andrea Jakab	1:19.60	34
1500 m	Daniela Oltean	2:04.48	36
	Andrea Jakab	2:02.23	31
3000 m	Daniela Oltean	4:21.73	29
	Andrea Jakab	4:17.03	24

References

• Official Olympic Reports Archived 2007-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Olympic Winter Games 2002, full results by sports-reference.com