- Marcel Glavan
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Medal record Men's canoe sprint Olympic Games Silver 1996 Atlanta C-2 1000 m World Championships Gold 1995 Duisburg C-4 1000 m Gold 1997 Dartmouth C-4 1000 m Silver 1994 Mexico City C-4 500 m Silver 1994 Mexico City C-4 1000 m Silver 1995 Duisburg C-2 1000 m Silver 1995 Duisburg C-4 500 m Silver 1997 Dartmouth C-4 500 m Marcel Glǎvan (born 9 March 1975 in Drăguşeni) is a Romanian-born Spanish flatwater canoer who competed from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s. During the mid-1990s, he won two world championship titles in the C-4 event. He was an Olympic silver medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the C-2 1000 m event with partner Antonel Borsan. He also won a C-4 1000 m gold medal at the 1997 European Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Competition for a place in the Romanian national team is famously stiff and after a disappointing seventh place in the C-4 1000 m at the 1998 world championships team leader Ivan Patzaichin dropped various stars, including Glavan. He thus found himself an ex-international at the age of just 23. In 2000, he took Spanish nationality and represented his adopted country at the 2001 and 2002 world championships, reaching the C-4 1000 m final both times.
He is now a coach for High Performance "Infanta Cristina".
References
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936-2007.
- ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships - Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936-2007.
- Sports-reference.com profile
1989: Soviet Union (Yuriy Gurin, Nicolae Juravschi, Viktor Reneysky, & Valeriy Veshko) * 1990: Soviet Union (Yuriy Gurin, Nicolae Juravschi, Viktor Reneysky, & Valeriy Veshko) * 1991: Soviet Union (Yuriy Gurin, Nicolae Juravschi, Viktor Reneysky, & Valeriy Veshko) * 1993: Hungary (Imre Pulai, György Kolonics, Tibor Takács, & Csaba Horváth) * 1994: Hungary (Imre Pulai, György Kolonics, Tibor Takács, & Csaba Horváth) * 1995: Romania (Marcel Glavan, Cosmin Pasca, Antonel Borsan, & Florin Popescu) * 1997: Romania (Marcel Glavan, Cosmin Pasca, Antonel Borsan, & Florin Popescu) * 1998: Hungary (Csaba Horváth, Béla Belicza, Csaba Hüttner, & László Szuszkó) * 1999: Russia (Ignat Kovalev, Konstantin Fomichev, Aleskey Volkinskiy, & Andrey Kabanov) * 2001: Hungary (György Zala, György Kozmann, Béla Belicza, & Gábor Ivan) * 2002: Poland (Andrzej Jezierski, Adam Ginter, Michał Gajownik, & Roman Rykiewicz) * 2003: Hungary (Csaba Hüttner, Márton Joób, Imre Pulai, & Ferenc Novák) * 2005: Poland (Wojciech Tyszyński, Michał Śliwiński, Andrzej Jezierski, & Michał Gajownik) * 2006: Germany (Robert Nuck, Stephan Breuing, Stefan Holtz, & Thomas Lück) * 2007: Romania (Josif Chirila, Andrei Cuculici, Silviu Simoncenco, & Loredan Popa) * 2009: Belarus (Dzianis Harazha, Dzmitry Rabchanka, Dzmitry Vaitsishkin, and Aleksandr Vauchetskiy) * 2010: Belarus ( Dzmitry Rabchanka, Dzmitry Vaitsishkin, Dzianis Harazha, and Aleksandr Vauchetskiy) * 2011: Belarus ( Dzmitry Rabchanka, Dzmitry Vaitsishkin, Dzianis Harazha, and Aleksandr Vauchetskiy)Categories:- 1975 births
- Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Living people
- Olympic canoeists of Romania
- Olympic silver medalists for Romania
- Romanian canoeists
- Spanish canoeists
- Spanish people of Romanian descent
- Olympic medalists in canoeing
- Romanian canoeist stubs
- Romanian Olympic medalist stubs
- Spanish sportspeople stubs
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