Romania at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

Romania at the; 2016 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	ROU
NPC	National Paralympic Committee
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	12 in 6 sports
Flag bearer	Eduard Novak
Medals ; Ranked 76th	Gold0Silver0Bronze1Total1
Summer Paralympics appearances
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Last updated September 25, 2019

Romania competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 to 18 September 2016.

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the southeast, Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, and Moldova to the east. It has a predominantly temperate-continental climate. With a total area of 238,397 square kilometres (92,046 sq mi), Romania is the 12th largest country and also the 7th most populous member state of the European Union, having almost 20 million inhabitants. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, and other major urban areas include Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași, Constanța, Craiova, and Brașov.

The 2016 Summer Paralympics, the 15th Summer Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016. The Games marked the first time a Latin American and South American city hosted the event, the second Southern Hemisphere city and nation, the first one being the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney, and also the first time a Lusophone (Portuguese-speaking) country hosted the event. These Games saw the introduction of two new sports to the Paralympic program: canoeing and the paratriathlon.

Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is anchor to the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area and the second-most populous municipality in Brazil and the sixth-most populous in the Americas. Rio de Janeiro is the capital of the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil's third-most populous state. Part of the city has been designated as a World Heritage Site, named "Rio de Janeiro: Carioca Landscapes between the Mountain and the Sea", by UNESCO on 1 July 2012 as a Cultural Landscape.

Disability classifications

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis.^[1]^[2] Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.^[3]

Amputation is the removal of a limb by trauma, medical illness, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventative surgery for such problems. A special case is that of congenital amputation, a congenital disorder, where fetal limbs have been cut off by constrictive bands. In some countries, amputation of the hands, feet or other body parts is or was used as a form of punishment for people who committed crimes. Amputation has also been used as a tactic in war and acts of terrorism; it may also occur as a war injury. In some cultures and religions, minor amputations or mutilations are considered a ritual accomplishment.

Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of permanent movement disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and symptoms vary among people and over time. Often, symptoms include poor coordination, stiff muscles, weak muscles, and tremors. There may be problems with sensation, vision, hearing, swallowing, and speaking. Often, babies with cerebral palsy do not roll over, sit, crawl or walk as early as other children of their age. Other symptoms include seizures and problems with thinking or reasoning, which each occur in about one third of people with CP. While symptoms may get more noticeable over the first few years of life, underlying problems do not worsen over time.

Wheelchair chair with wheels, used by people for whom walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, or disability

A wheelchair is a chair with wheels, used when walking is difficult or impossible due to illness, injury, or disability. Wheelchairs come in a wide variety of formats to meet the specific needs of their users. They may include specialized seating adaptions, individualized controls, and may be specific to particular activities, as seen with sports wheelchairs and beach wheelchairs. The most widely recognised distinction is between powered wheelchairs ("powerchairs"), where propulsion is provided by batteries and electric motors, and manually propelled wheelchairs, where the propulsive force is provided either by the wheelchair user/occupant pushing the wheelchair by hand ("self-propelled"), or by an attendant pushing from the rear.

Medallists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Alex Bologa	Judo	Men's 60 kg	8 September

Competitors

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

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	1	1	2
Cycling	2	0	2
Judo	1	0	1
Paracanoe	1	1	2
Swimming	2	1	3
Table tennis	2	0	2
Total	9	2	12

Athletics

Romania has qualified 2 athletes for 2016 Summer Paralympics. Florentina Hrişcu is the first female athlete to qualify for Romania in athletics at the Paralympic Games.

The Paralympic Games or Paralympics are a periodic series of international multi-sport events involving athletes with a range of disabilities, including impaired muscle power, impaired passive range of movement, limb deficiency, leg length difference, short stature, hypertonia, ataxia, athetosis, vision impairment and intellectual impairment. There are Winter and Summer Paralympic Games, which since the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, South Korea, are held almost immediately following the respective Olympic Games. All Paralympic Games are governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).

Field Events - Women

Athlete	Events	Result	Rank
Florentina Hrișcu	Discus F43/44	18.59	12

Field Events - Men

Athlete	Events	Result	Rank
Florin Cojoc	High jump T45/46/47	1.75	10

Cycling

With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Romania qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.^[4]^[5] After final rankings, Romania has qualified 2 cyclists 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Carol-Eduard Novak	Road Race C4-5	2:18:07	9
Carol-Eduard Novak	Time Trial C4	40:02.02	6
Attila Olah	Road Race C1-2-3	2:07:59	29
Attila Olah	Time Trial C2	33:20.80	14

Track

Time Trial

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Attila Olah	Men’s 1km Time Trial C1-2-3	1:22.914	26

Individual Pursuit

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Opposition Time	Rank
Carol-Eduard Novak	Men’s Individual Pursuit C4	4:51.037	5	Did not qualify

Judo

Romania has received an invitational spot for men extra-lightweight (60 kg) for 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First repechage round	Repechage semifinals	Final/BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Alexandru Bologa	-60 kg	Lee Minjae (KOR) W 000³–000²	Mouloud Noura (ALG) W 000³–000²	Hirose Makoto (JPN) L 000–100	N/A		Henry Borges (URU) W 100-000

Paracanoeing

Romania earned a qualifying spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport following their performance at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Milan, Italy where the top six finishers in each Paralympic event earned a qualifying spot for their nation. Mihaela Lulea earned the spot for Romania after finishing fourth in the women's KL3 event. Iulian Serban earned a second spot for Romania after finishing fourth in the men's KL3 event.^[6]^[7]

Men

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semi-Final		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Iulian Șerban	Men's KL3	43.223	3 Q	N/A		41.200	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semi-Final		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mihaela Lulea	Women's KL3	55.479	7 Q	54.665	1 Q	52.273	4

Swimming

Men

Athletes	Event	Heat		Final
Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Samuel Ciorap	100 m backstroke S12	1:09.30	11	Did not qualify
	50 m freestyle S12	26.36	18	Did not qualify
	100 m breaststroke SB12	1:13.92	9	Did not qualify
Octavian Ilina	200 m freestyle S2	5:44.10	9	Did not qualify
	50 m backstroke S2	1:13.81	9	Did not qualify
	100 m backstroke S2	2:49.34	10	Did not qualify

Women

Athletes	Event	Heat		Final
Athletes	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Naomi Ciorap	100 m breaststroke S13	1:22.00	12	Did not qualify
	100 m butterfly S13	1:22.55	19	Did not qualify
	50 m freestyle S13	30.93	19	Did not qualify

Table tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	Group stage			1St Round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Dacian Makszin	Individual C3	Thomas Schmidberger (GER) L 0-3	Anurak Laowong (THA) L 1-3	3	Did not qualify
Bobi Simion	Individual C6	Alvaro Vargas Munoz Valera (ESP) L 0-3	Christian Dettoni (CHI) W 3-2	2	Michal Jensen (DEN) W 3-2	Peter Rosenmeier (DEN) L 0-3	Did not qualify

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v t e Nations at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Comoros Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zimbabwe
Americas	Argentina Aruba Bermuda Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Peru Puerto Rico Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Cambodia China Chinese Taipei East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Macau Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka South Korea Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam
Europe	Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Tonga
Independent	Independent Paralympic Athletes
Banned	Russia