Romania at the 2016 Summer Paralympics

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Romania at the
2016 Summer Paralympics
Flag of Romania.svg
IPC code ROU
NPC National Paralympic Committee
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors12 in 6 sports
Flag bearer Eduard Novak
Medals
Ranked 76th
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
1
Total
1
Summer Paralympics appearances

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

Romania Sovereign state in Europe

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.

2016 Summer Paralympics fifteenth Summer Paralympic Games

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 Capital of state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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.

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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 removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery

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 A group of disorders affecting the development of movement and posture, often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, perception, cognition, and behavior. It results from damage to the fetal or infant brain.

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

MedalNameSportEventDate
Bronze medal icon.svg Bronze Alex Bologa Judo Men's 60 kg 8 September

Competitors

Athletics

Romanian athletes awaiting accreditation for the Rio Games. Rio Games pre comp Paralympics 06.jpg
Romanian athletes awaiting accreditation for the Rio Games.

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.

Paralympic Games Major international sport event for people with disabilities

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

AthleteEventsResultRank
Florentina Hrișcu Discus F43/44 18.5912

Field Events - Men

AthleteEventsResultRank
Florin Cojoc High jump T45/46/47 1.7510

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
AthleteEventTimeRank
Carol-Eduard Novak Road Race C4-5 2:18:079
Time Trial C4 40:02.026
Attila Olah Road Race C1-2-3 2:07:5929
Time Trial C2 33:20.8014

Track

Time Trial
AthleteEventTimeRank
Attila Olah Men’s 1km Time Trial C1-2-3 1:22.91426
Individual Pursuit
AthleteEventHeatsFinal
TimeRankOpposition
Time
Rank
Carol-Eduard Novak Men’s Individual Pursuit C4 4:51.0375Did not qualify

Judo

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

Men
AthleteEventRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFirst repechage
round
Repechage
semifinals
Final/BM
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Alexandru Bologa -60 kgFlag of South Korea.svg  Lee Minjae  (KOR)
W 0003–0002
Flag of Algeria.svg  Mouloud Noura  (ALG)
W 0003–0002
Flag of Japan.svg  Hirose Makoto  (JPN)
L 000–100
N/AFlag of Uruguay.svg  Henry Borges  (URU)
W 100-000
Bronze medal icon.svg

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

AthleteEventHeatsSemi-FinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Iulian Șerban Men's KL3 43.2233 QN/A41.2004

Women

AthleteEventHeatsSemi-FinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Mihaela Lulea Women's KL3 55.4797 Q54.6651 Q52.2734

Swimming

Men
AthletesEventHeatFinal
TimeRankTimeRank
Samuel Ciorap 100 m backstroke S12 1:09.3011Did not qualify
50 m freestyle S12 26.3618Did not qualify
100 m breaststroke SB12 1:13.929Did not qualify
Octavian Ilina 200 m freestyle S2 5:44.109Did not qualify
50 m backstroke S2 1:13.819Did not qualify
100 m backstroke S2 2:49.3410Did not qualify
Women
AthletesEventHeatFinal
TimeRankTimeRank
Naomi Ciorap 100 m breaststroke S13 1:22.0012Did not qualify
100 m butterfly S13 1:22.5519Did not qualify
50 m freestyle S13 30.9319Did not qualify

Table tennis

Men
AthleteEventGroup stage1St RoundQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
RankOpposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Opposition
Result
Rank
Dacian Makszin Individual C3 Flag of Germany.svg  Thomas Schmidberger  (GER)
L 0-3
Flag of Thailand.svg  Anurak Laowong  (THA)
L 1-3
3Did not qualify
Bobi Simion Individual C6 Flag of Spain.svg  Alvaro Vargas Munoz Valera  (ESP)
L 0-3
Flag of Chile.svg  Christian Dettoni  (CHI)
W 3-2
2Flag of Denmark.svg  Michal Jensen  (DEN)
W 3-2
Flag of Denmark.svg  Peter Rosenmeier  (DEN)
L 0-3
Did not qualify

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