Dumitru Focșneanu (8 November 1935 – 20 June 2019) was a Romanian

bobsled Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobs ...

der who had his best results as a brakeman with

Ion Panțuru Ion Panţuru (11 September 1934 – 17 January 2016) was a Romanian bobsledder. He competed in two-man and four-man events at the 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics and served as the Olympic flag bearer for Romania in 1964 and 1972. Panţuru to ...

. Together they won two medals in the two-man event at the

FIBT World Championships The IBSF World Championships (known as the FIBT World Championships until 2015), part of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation, have taken place on an annual basis since FIBT World Championships 1930, 1930. Starting with 2002, no Wo ...

with a silver in 1969 and a bronze in 1973. Focșneanu competed in two-man and four-man events at the

1972 Winter Olympics The 1972 Winter Olympics, officially the and commonly known as Sapporo 1972 (), were a winter multi-sport event held from February 3 to 13, 1972, in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan. It was the first Winter Olympic Games to take place outside ...

and placed 10th–12th.

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1972 bobsleigh four-man results

* * 1935 births 2019 deaths People from Breaza Sportspeople from Prahova County Romanian male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders for Romania Bobsledders at the 1972 Winter Olympics 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-bobsleigh-bio-stub