Antonel Borșan (born 29 April 1970 in

Liești Liești is the third-largest commune of Galați County, Western Moldavia, Romania on the confluence of the Siret River, Siret and Bârlad River, Bârlad rivers, very close to Tecuci (28 km) and Galați (52 km). It is composed of two vill ...

Galați County Galați () is a county (județ) of Romania, in Moldavia region, with the capital city at Galați, between latitude, 45°25'N and latitude, 46°10'N latitude, longitude, 27°20'E and longitude, 28°10'E longitude. It borders the counties of Vaslu ...

) is a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n sprint canoer who competed in the mid-1990s. He won an Olympic silver medal at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

in the C-2 1000 m event with Marcel Glăvan. Borșan also won seven medals at the

ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two top-tier Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). They ...

with two golds (C-4 1000 m:

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

) and five silvers (C-2 1000 m: 1995, C-4 500 m:

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

, 1995, 1997; C-4 1000 m: 1994).

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* * * 1970 births Living people People from Liești Sportspeople from Galați County Romanian male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Romania Olympic silver medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in canoeing Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-Olympic-medalist-stub