Penait Călcâi (8 July 1924 – 4 April 1976) was a Romanian

sports shooter Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a par ...

, educated electric engineer. He competed in the

25 m pistol 25 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of ISSF 25 meter center-fire pistol, 25 meter center-fire pistol ...

event at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

. He defected to the West after the gamesFindling, John E. & Pelle, Kimberly D.: ''Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement'', pp. 115–116. Greenwood Press, Westport, 1996. and was allowed to settle in

West-Germany West Germany was the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) from its formation on 23 May 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with East Germany on 3 October 1990. It is sometimes known as the Bonn Republi ...

. Călcâi died in

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on 4 April 1976, at the age of 51.

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* 1924 births 1976 deaths Romanian male sport shooters Olympic shooters for Romania Shooters at the 1952 Summer Olympics Romanian defectors Sportspeople from Focșani 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-sportshooting-bio-stub