Cezar Bădiţă (born 12 April 1979 in
Bucharest
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) is an international
medley
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Sports
*Medley swimming, races requiring multiple swimming styles
* Medley relay races at track meets
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swimmer
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from
Romania
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, who represented his native country at the
2000 Summer Olympics
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in
Sydney, Australia
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. Prior to that tournament, at the
2000 European Aquatics Championships
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in
Helsinki, Finland
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, he won the silver medal at the 400 m individual medley.
At the 2003 World Championships, he swam to
Romanian Records in the 200 and 400 IMs (2:01.58 and 4:19.72).
See also
*
List of doping cases in sport
The following is an incomplete list of sportspeople who have been involved in doping offences. It contains those who have been found to have, or have admitted to having, taken Doping (sport), illegal performance-enhancing drugs, prohibited recrea ...
References
Profile on Romanian Olympic Committee*
1979 births
Living people
Romanian male medley swimmers
Doping cases in swimming
Romanian sportspeople in doping cases
Olympic swimmers for Romania
Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Swimmers from Bucharest
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
20th-century Romanian sportsmen
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