Ion Geantă (12 September 1959 – 2 July 2019) was a Romanian

sprint canoer Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race canoes or kayaks on calm water. Overview Race categories vary by the number of athletes in the boat, the length of the course, and whether the boat is a canoe or kayak. Canoe sprints are som ...

who competed from the late 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two

Summer Olympics The Summer Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'été), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years. The inau ...

, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Moscow in

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC. * January 9 – ...

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* 1959 births 2019 deaths Romanian male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Romania Olympic silver medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in canoeing Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics 20th-century Romanian people Place of birth missing {{Romania-Olympic-medalist-stub