Romania at the Olympics facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Romania at the Olympics
IOC code	ROU
NOC	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
Website
Medals Ranked 21st	Gold Silver Bronze Total 93 101 124 318
Summer appearances
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
Winter appearances
1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018

Romania first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900, with a single participant. The National Olympic Committee for Romania is the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee, and was created and recognized in 1914. The nation first sent a team to compete at the Games in 1924, and has only missed two editions each of the Summer Olympic Games and Winter Olympic Games since then. Notably, Romania was the lone Eastern Bloc nation to participate in the 1984 Summer Olympics, which the other nations boycotted. That was also Romania's most successful Olympic Games: they won 20 gold medals and 53 medals in total.

Gymnastics is Romania's top medal-producing sport. Romania has won the third highest total number of medals (after Hungary, and Poland) of nations that have never hosted the Games.

History

From the 1972 Summer Olympics through the 2012 Summer Olympics, Romania had qualified a women's team for the gymnastics team all-around. They had won medals at every Olympics from the 1976 Summer Olympics through to the 2012 Summer Games. However, the women's team failed to qualify for the 2016 Summer Olympics, ending the 40-year run in medals, and the 44-year run of having a team at the Olympics.

At the winter Olympics Romania has won only one medal, at the 1968 Winter Olympics with two-man bobsleigh team led by Ion Panțuru and Nicolae Neagoe.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games Games Athletes 1 Gold 2 Silver 3 Bronze Total Rank 1900 Paris 1 0 0 0 0 – 1904–1920 did not participate 1924 Paris 35 0 0 1 1 23 1928 Amsterdam 21 0 0 0 0 – 1932 Los Angeles did not participate 1936 Berlin 54 0 1 0 1 25 1948 London did not participate 1952 Helsinki 114 1 1 2 4 23 1956 Melbourne 44 5 3 5 13 9 1960 Rome 98 3 1 6 10 11 1964 Tokyo 138 2 4 6 12 14 1968 Mexico City 82 4 6 5 15 12 1972 Munich 159 3 6 7 16 13 1976 Montreal 157 4 9 14 27 9 1980 Moscow 228 6 6 13 25 7 1984 Los Angeles 124 20 16 17 53 2 1988 Seoul 68 7 11 6 24 8 1992 Barcelona 172 4 6 8 18 14 1996 Atlanta 165 4 7 9 20 14 2000 Sydney 145 11 6 9 26 11 2004 Athens 108 8 5 6 19 14 2008 Beijing 102 4 1 4 9 17 2012 London 103 2 4 1 7 31 2016 Rio de Janeiro 97 1 1 2 4 47 2020 Tokyo 101 1 3 0 4 46 2024 Paris 106 3 4 2 9 23 2028 Los Angeles future event Total 93 101 123 317 17

Medals by Winter Games Games Athletes 1 Gold 2 Silver 3 Bronze Total Rank 1928 St. Moritz 10 0 0 0 0 – 1932 Lake Placid 4 0 0 0 0 – 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 15 0 0 0 0 – 1948 St. Moritz 7 0 0 0 0 – 1952 Oslo 16 0 0 0 0 – 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 19 0 0 0 0 – 1960 Squaw Valley did not participate 1964 Innsbruck 27 0 0 0 0 – 1968 Grenoble 30 0 0 1 1 15 1972 Sapporo 13 0 0 0 0 – 1976 Innsbruck 32 0 0 0 0 – 1980 Lake Placid 35 0 0 0 0 – 1984 Sarajevo 19 0 0 0 0 – 1988 Calgary 11 0 0 0 0 – 1992 Albertville 23 0 0 0 0 – 1994 Lillehammer 23 0 0 0 0 – 1998 Nagano 16 0 0 0 0 – 2002 Salt Lake City 21 0 0 0 0 – 2006 Turin 25 0 0 0 0 – 2010 Vancouver 29 0 0 0 0 – 2014 Sochi 24 0 0 0 0 – 2018 Pyeongchang 27 0 0 0 0 – 2022 Beijing 21 0 0 0 0 - 2026 Milan/Cortina future event Total 0 0 1 1 47

Medalists

Summer medallists with minimum 2 gold

Winter medallists

Summary by sport

Shooting

Romania's only appearance before 1924 was a single shooter at the 1900 Games, when Gheorghe Plagino placed 13th in the trap.

See also

In Spanish: Rumania en los Juegos Olímpicos para niños

• List of flag bearers for Romania at the Olympics
• Category:Olympic competitors for Romania
• Romania at the Paralympics
• Sport in Romania