Romania at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Romania competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. The nation returned to the Winter Games after having boycotted the 1960 Winter Olympics due to the U.S. ban imposed to East Germany.

Romania at the 1964 Winter Olympics
IOC code	ROU
NOC	Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee
Website	www.cosr.ro (in Romanian, English, and French)
in Innsbruck
Competitors	27 (men) in 4 sports
Flag bearer	Ion Panțuru
Medals	Gold 0 Silver 0 Bronze 0 Total 0
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 1	Rank
20 km	Nicolae Bărbăşescu	DNF	–	–	DNF
	Gheorghe Cimpoia	1'29:44.6	3	1'35:44.6	27
	Constantin Carabela	1'30:59.0	0	1'30:59.0	14
	Vilmoş Gheorghe	1'22:18.0	2	1'26:18.0	5

¹ Two minutes added per miss.

Bobsleigh

Main article: Bobsleigh at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ROU-1	Ion Panţuru Hariton Paşovschi	Two-man	1:07.74	17	1:06.97	10	1:06.92	12	1:07.47	14	4:29.10	13
ROU-2	Alexandru Oancea Constantin Cotacu	Two-man	1:07.31	13	1:08.93	18	1:06.75	10	1:07.26	12	4:30.25	15

Sled	Athletes	Event	Run 1		Run 2		Run 3		Run 4		Total
			Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
ROU-1	Ion Panţuru Gheorghe Maftei Constantin Cotacu Hariton Paşovschi	Four-man	1:04.70	15	1:04.89	15	1:05.05	12	1:05.16	13	4:19.80	15

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Gheorghe Bădescu	56:29.6	39
30 km	Gheorghe Bădescu	1'46:54.5	54

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1964 Winter Olympics

First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
United States	7–2	Romania

Consolation round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
9	Poland	7	6	1	0	40	13	12
10	Norway	7	5	2	0	40	19	10
11	Japan	7	4	2	1	35	31	9
12	Romania	7	3	3	1	31	28	7
13	Austria	7	3	3	1	24	28	7
14	Yugoslavia	7	3	3	1	29	37	7
15	Italy	7	2	5	0	24	42	4
16	Hungary	7	0	7	0	14	39	0

• Poland 6-1 Romania
• Japan 6-4 Romania
• Romania 5-5 Yugoslavia
• Austria 2-5 Romania
• Norway 4-2 Romania
• Romania 6-2 Italy
• Romania 8-3 Hungary

Contestants Nicolae Andrei Anton Biro Anton Crişan Zoltan Czaka Ion Ferenz Iulian Florescu Andrei Ioanovici Ştefan Ionescu Alexandru Calamar Dan Mihăilescu Adalbert Naghi Eduard Pană Iosef Sofian Geza Szabo Iuliu Szabo Ion Țiriac Dezső Varga

References

• Official Olympic Reports Archived 2007-06-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Olympic Winter Games 1964, full results by sports-reference.com