Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

competed at the

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in London from 27 July to 12 August 2012. This nation has competed at the Summer Olympic Games since its official debut in 1924, missing only two editions, including the

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. Despite being London's third Olympic Games, this is the first time the Romanian team has competed in London. The

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( ro, Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român, ''COSR'') sent a total of 103 athletes to the Games, 54 men and 49 women, to compete in 14 sports. Romania left London with a total of 9 medals (2 gold, 5 silver, and 2 bronze), beating the number of medals won in

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by one. This performance was considered the nation's worst at an Olympic Games since

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, based on the gold medal standings. Three of the medals were awarded to the team in artistic gymnastics, two in judo, two in weightlifting (taken away later), and one each in fencing and shooting. Romania did not win an Olympic medal in rowing for the first time since 1976, and in athletics for the first time since 1980. On 25 November 2020 the IOC disqualified two Romanians weightlifters,

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and

Roxana Cocoș Roxana Cocoș (; born 5 June 1989 in Bucharest) is a Romanian weightlifter. On 1 August 2012, Cocoș won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the –69 kg category with a snatch of 113 kg and a clean and jerk of 143 kg ...

, for doping and stripped them of their medals. Among the nation's medalists were gymnasts

Sandra Izbașa Sandra Raluca Izbașa (; born 18 June 1990) is a retired artistic gymnast from Romania. She is a double Olympic champion, having won the floor event at the 2008 Olympics and vault at the 2012 Olympics. She is also a winner of two Olympic bronze m ...

and

Cătălina Ponor Cătălina Ponor (; born 20 August 1987) is a Romanian former artistic gymnast who competed at three Olympiads: 2004, 2012, and 2016. She won three gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens on balance beam, floor and as part of the R ...

, who both won two medals for their individual final exercises (vault and floor). The women's artistic gymnastics team, led by Ponor and Izbașa, also managed to repeat its bronze medal in the

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event. Rifle shooter

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became the first Romanian man to claim the gold medal in a shooting event in 12 years. Meanwhile,

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, who missed out of the bronze medal in men's individual sabre, led his team to win the silver in the men's team sabre fencing competition.

Medalists

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Delegation

Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (COSR) selected a team of 103 athletes, 54 men and 49 women, to compete in 14 sports, surpassing the record in

by just a single athlete. There was only a single competitor in road cycling. The Romanian team featured past Olympic champions, four of them defending (marathon runner

Constantina Diță Constantina Diță (formerly Constantina Diță-Tomescu born on January 23, 1970, in Turburea, Gorj County), is a Romanian long-distance runner, who specializes mainly in the half marathon and marathon. She was the marathon gold medallist at the 2 ...

, judoka

Alina Dumitru Alina Dumitru (; born 30 August 1982) is a Romanian judoka, one-time Olympic champion and eight-time European champion. At the 2008 Summer Olympics she defeated Japanese double gold medallist Ryoko Tani, who until then had been undefeated in ma ...

, gymnast

, and rowing pair

Georgeta Andrunache Georgeta Damian (married name Andruanche, born 14 April 1976 in Botoșani) is a female rower from Romania and winner of five Olympic gold medals. She married the rower Valeriu Andrunache in 2006. Damian rowed in the Romanian Women's eight, tha ...

and

Viorica Susanu Viorica Susanu (born 29 October 1975 in Galaţi) is a Romanian rower and winner of four Olympic Gold medals. Susanu rowed in the Romanian women's eight that won the World Rowing Championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999, and the 2000 Summer Olympic ...

). Eight female Romanian athletes were among the oldest of the team, including discus thrower

Nicoleta Grasu Lenuţa Nicoleta Grasu is a retired Romanian discus thrower. She was born on 11 September 1971 in Secuieni as Nicoleta Grădinaru, but took a new surname when she married fellow discus thrower Costel Grasu. Grasu is best known for winning meda ...

, who competed at her sixth Olympics. Georgeta Andrunache became one of the most successful female rowers in Olympic history, with a total of six medals; five of them gold. Andrunache's compatriot, Viorica Susanu, who won a total of five Olympic medals, competed at her fifth Olympics, along with marathon runner

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. Skeet shooter Lucia Mihalache, at age 45, was the oldest athlete of the team, while gymnast

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was the youngest at age 16. Other notable Romanian athletes included gymnast

, who made an Olympic comeback in her sport after eight years, swimmer and former Olympic champion

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, who competed at her fourth Olympics, and tennis doubles specialist

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, who became the nation's first male flag bearer at the opening ceremony since 1996. , width=78% align=left valign=top , The following is the list of number of competitors participating in the Games. Note that reserves for fencing, field hockey, football, and handball are counted as reserves:

Athletics

Romanian athletes achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event at the 'A' Standard, and 1 at the 'B' Standard): ;Men ;Track & road events ;Women ;Track & road events ;Field events

Boxing

;Men ;Women

Canoeing

Sprint

;Men ;Women Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

Road

Fencing

;Men ;Women

Gymnastics

Women's artistic gymnastics was the best sport for Romania at the 2012 Summer Olympics. They won a bronze medal in the team competition,

won gold on vault, and

won silver on floor. This was the 10th consecutive Olympics that Romania won a medal in the women's artistic gymnastics team competition dating back to 1976; their streak ended at the next Olympics in 2016.

Artistic

;Men ;Team ;Individual finals ;Women ;Team Women gymnastics olympics 2012 sandra izbasa 02

;Individual finals

Judo

;Men ;Women

Rowing

For the first time in 36 years Romania did not win any medals in rowing. ;Men ;Women Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Shooting

;Men ;Women

Swimming

Romanian swimmers achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)): ;Men ;Women

Table tennis

Romania qualified three athletes for singles

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events based on their world rankings as of 16 May 2011.

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qualified for the men's event;

Daniela Dodean Daniela Monteiro, née Dodean (born January 13, 1988 in Arad), is a Romanian professional table tennis player and European champion. She competed for Romania in the women's singles and team at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the women's singles at th ...

and

Elizabeta Samara Elizabeta Samara (born 15 April 1989 in Constanța) is a professional Romanian table tennis and a three-time European champion. She is currently the player of CSA Steaua București. Samara previously represented Fenerbahçe SK. She has repres ...

qualified for the

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Tennis

Water polo

Men's tournament

;Team roster ;Group play

Weightlifting

Wrestling

;Men's freestyle ;Men's Greco-Roman

References

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