Nicolae Neagoe (2 August 1941 – 29 April 2023) was a Romanian

bobsled Bobsleigh or bobsled is a team winter sport that involves making timed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Feder ...

der who competed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Neagoe was born in

Sinaia Sinaia () is a town and a mountain resort in Prahova County, Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Muntenia. The town was named after the Sinaia Monastery of 1695, around which it was built. The monastery, in turn, is named after t ...

on 2 August 1941. With his driver Ion Panţuru, he won the bronze medal in the two-man event at the

1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (french: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France. Thirty-seven countries participated. Frenchm ...

Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...

. As of the

2022 Winter Olympics The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...

, this is Romania's only medal at the

Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ...

. Nicolae Neagoe died on 29 April 2023, at the age of 81.

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Bobsleigh two-man Olympic medalists 1932-56 and since 1964 (sports123.com)
* * 1941 births 2023 deaths Romanian male bobsledders Olympic bobsledders for Romania Bobsledders at the 1968 Winter Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics People from Sinaia Sportspeople from Prahova County {{Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub