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Ion Drîmbă

1942 - 2006

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Ionel Alexandru "Ion" Drîmbă (also Drâmbă, March 18, 1942 – February 20, 2006) was a Romanian fencer. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won the first ever Olympic gold medal in fencing for Romania in 1968. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ion Drîmbă is the 1,131st most popular athlete (up from 1,388th in 2019), the 408th most popular biography from Romania (up from 471st in 2019) and the 17th most popular Romanian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ion Drîmbă ranks 1,131 out of 6,025. Before him are Henri Guérin, Daniel Frank, Giuliano Nostini, Roy Cochran, Eduardo Guerrero, and Ramón Tapia. After him are Reinaldo Gorno, Virgil Jacomini, Giuseppe Galante, Jean-Guy Gautier, Muriel Freeman, and Ricardo Delgado.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Ion Drîmbă ranks 507. Before him are Lawrence Weiner, Jan Olsson, Alexander Kalyagin, Gillian Rubinstein, Gray Davis, and Eugène Camara. After him are Rutanya Alda, Frew McMillan, Michel Tremblay, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, and Marc Alaimo. Among people deceased in 2006, Ion Drîmbă ranks 280. Before him are Mario Francesco Pompedda, György Faludy, Gordon Parks, Robert Earl Jones, Charles Haughey, and Ondina Valla. After him are Liese Prokop, Ted Grant, Aron Gurevich, Ruth Brown, Ingvar Gärd, and Lloyd Bentsen.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Drîmbă ranks 408 out of 844. Before him are Nicolae Neagoe (1941), Dezső Bánffy (1843), Sámuel Teleki (1845), Alexandru Neagu (1948), Bogdan Stelea (1967), and Ilie Balaci (1956). After him are Blanka Teleki (1806), Nicolae Golescu (1810), Vasile Dîba (1954), Richard Wagner (1952), Ștefania Mărăcineanu (1882), and Florin Gheorghiu (1944).

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Among ATHLETES In Romania

Among athletes born in Romania, Ion Drîmbă ranks 17. Before him are Lajos Steiner (1903), Ion Panțuru (1934), Valeriu Bularca (1931), Atanase Sciotnic (1942), Valeria Bufanu (1946), and Nicolae Neagoe (1941). After him are Vasile Dîba (1954), Vasile Tiță (1928), Leon Rotman (1934), Constantin Alexandru (1953), Anișoara Cușmir-Stanciu (1962), and Paula Ivan (1963).

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