Vasile Andrei
Appearance
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Born | Albeşti, Romania | 28 July 1955|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 100 kg (220 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Progresul Bucuresti Steaua București[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Dumitru Pârvulescu Gheorghe Suteu[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vasile Andrei (born 28 July 1955) is a retired heavyweight wrestler from Romania. He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1980 and a gold medal in 1984. At the 1984 Olympics he also placed sixth in freestyle wrestling,[2] and in 1980 and 1988 served as flag bearer for Romania at the opening ceremony.[3] At the world and European championships he won six medals in Greco-Roman wrestling between 1979 and 1987.[4]
Andrei took up wrestling at Progresul Bucuresti coached by Dumitru Pârvulescu and later moved to Steaua București. After retiring from competitions he worked as a wrestling coach, and in 2000 trained the Tunisian national team.[1]
References
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vasile Andrei.
- ^ a b c Vasile Andrei. Romanian Olympic Committee
- ^ "Profile: Vasile Andrei". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2009.
- ^ Romania. sports-reference.com
- ^ Andrei, Vasile (ROU). iat.uni-leipzig.de
Categories:
- 1955 births
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- Sportspeople from Ialomița County
- Olympic wrestlers for Romania
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- Wrestlers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Romanian male sport wrestlers
- Olympic gold medalists for Romania
- Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in wrestling
- FISU World University Games silver medalists for Romania
- European Wrestling Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1981 Summer Universiade
- 20th-century Romanian sportsmen
- Romanian Olympic medalist stubs
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