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Ion Panțuru

1934 - 2016

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Ion Panţuru (11 September 1934 – 17 January 2016) was a Romanian bobsledder. He competed in two-man and four-man events at the 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics and served as the Olympic flag bearer for Romania in 1964 and 1972. Panţuru took up bobsleigh at the age of 24, after playing as a football goalkeeper at the Divizia B-level. At the 1968 Games he won a bronze medal with brakeman Nicolae Neagoe, which remains Romania's only medal at the Winter Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ion Panțuru is the 887th most popular athlete (up from 1,319th in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Romania (up from 463rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular Romanian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ion Panțuru ranks 887 out of 6,025. Before him are Ileana Silai, Fauja Singh, Kalervo Toivonen, Bilistiche, Hans Kalt, and Josef Feistmantl. After him are István Tóth, Dan Ayrault, Ivar Aronsson, Paul Costello, Tony Nash, and Arthur Harnden.

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Among people born in 1934, Ion Panțuru ranks 371. Before him are Shirley Horn, Martín Pando, Barry Humphries, Kamala Surayya, Lucien Clergue, and Richard D. Zanuck. After him are Turan Dursun, Rita Renoir, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Mario Segale, Junior Wells, and Mikhail Kozakov. Among people deceased in 2016, Ion Panțuru ranks 355. Before him are Norbert Schemansky, Ruth Leuwerik, Lutz D. Schmadel, Bülent Eken, Geydar Dzhemal, and Valery Khalilov. After him are Mark Dvoretsky, Arthur Harnden, Caio Júnior, Rita Renoir, Françoise Mallet-Joris, and Marcel Artelesa.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Panțuru ranks 370 out of 844. Before him are Neagu Djuvara (1916), C. A. Rosetti (1816), Rudolf Bürger (1908), Mario Livio (1945), Nicolae Crețulescu (1812), and Gigi Becali (1958). After him are Júlia Sigmond (1929), Pavel Badea (1967), Mircea Rednic (1962), Valeriu Bularca (1931), Vintilă Brătianu (1867), and Alexandru Borbely (1910).

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Among ATHLETES In Romania

Among athletes born in Romania, Ion Panțuru ranks 12. Before him are Gheorghe Berceanu (1949), Maricica Puică (1950), Dumitru Pârvulescu (1933), Argentina Menis (1948), Doina Melinte (1956), and Lajos Steiner (1903). After him are Valeriu Bularca (1931), Atanase Sciotnic (1942), Valeria Bufanu (1946), Nicolae Neagoe (1941), Ion Drîmbă (1942), and Vasile Dîba (1954).

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