Marcel Roșca (; born 18 October 1943) is a retired

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n pistol shooter. He competed in the individual 25 m rapid-fire event at the 1964 (Tokyo) and 1968 (Mexico) Olympics and won a silver medal in 1968, placing sixth at the former. He also won three team medals at the World Championships in 1966, 1970, and 1974. In 1969 he won the silver medal at the European Championships in Plzen, Czechoslovakia, at 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men.

Biography

Roșca was born in a family of singers and always wanted to become one. In 1968, he graduated from the Theatrical Arts Academy, but instead of pursuing a theatrical career, he became chief officer of the Traffic Division of the Bucharest Police. In 1970, he was a winner of the X Factor TV show "Star without name". After that he sang as a

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with the Romanian National Opera before

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to West Germany in 1984.Marcel Rosca

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Personal website
1943 births Living people Romanian male sport shooters ISSF pistol shooters Olympic shooters for Romania Shooters at the 1964 Summer Olympics Shooters at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in shooting Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics 20th-century Romanian male opera singers Romanian basses Romanian defectors Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film alumni Sportspeople from Bucharest {{Romania-Olympic-medalist-stub