Costică Olaru (born 1 August 1960) 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 early 1980s. He won a bronze medal in the C-1 500 m event at the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the ...

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. Olaru won two medals at the

1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 1983 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Tampere, Finland for the second time. The Finland, Finnish city had host the championships previously in 1973 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, 1973. The men's competition consisted of ...

with a gold in the C-1 500 m and silver in the C-1 1000 m events.

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* * * 1960 births Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists for Romania Olympic bronze medalists for Romania Romanian male canoeists Olympic medalists in canoeing ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-Olympic-medalist-stub