Marcel Glăvan (born 9 March 1975 in Drăgușeni) is a Romanian-born Spanish flatwater canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). During the mid-1990s, he won two world championship titles in the C-4 event. He was an Olympic silver medalist at the

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in the C-2 1000 m event with partner

Antonel Borșan Antonel Borșan (born 29 April 1970 in Liești, Galați County) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1990s. He won an Olympic silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the C-2 1000 m event with Marcel Glăvan. Borș ...

. He also won a C-4 1000 m gold medal at the 1997 European Championships in

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, Bulgaria. Competition for a place in the Romanian national team is famously stiff and after a disappointing seventh place in the C-4 1000 m at the 1998 world championships team leader Ivan Patzaichin dropped various stars, including Glăvan. He thus found himself an ex-international at the age of just 23. In 2000, he took Spanish nationality and represented his adopted country at the

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and 2002 world championships, reaching the C-4 1000 m final both times. He is now a coach for High Performance "Infanta Cristina".

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* * * 1975 births Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists for Romania Olympic silver medalists for Romania Romanian male canoeists Spanish male canoeists Spanish people of Romanian descent Romanian emigrants to Spain Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics People from Galați County {{Spain-sport-bio-stub