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Ion Drîmbă

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Ion Drîmbă
Personal information
Full nameIoan Alexandru Drîmbă[1]
Born(1942-03-18)18 March 1942
Timișoara, Romania
Died20 February 2006(2006-02-20) (aged 63)
Brazil
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Weight59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
SportFencing
Event(s)foil, sabre
ClubSteaua București[2]
Coached byAndrei Altman[3]
Medal record
Men's Fencing
Representing  Romania
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1968 Mexico City Foil
World Championships
Gold medal – first place1967 Montreal Team foil
Bronze medal – third place1969 Havana Team foil

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.[2]

References

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  1. ↑ "Decretul nr. 1042/1968 privind conferirea ordinului şi medaliei Meritul Sportiv unor sportivi, antrenori şi medici sportivi" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on August 12, 2019. Retrieved April 5, 2014.
  2. 1 2 3 "Ion Drîmbă". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.
  3. ↑ Ionel Dramba Archived 2016-10-02 at the Wayback Machine. Romanian Olympic Committee