- Romania at the Olympics
Romania first participated at theOlympic Games in 1900, with a single participant. TheNational Olympic Committee for Romania is the "Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee", and was created and recognized in 1914. The nation first sent a team to compete at the Games in 1924, and has only missed two editions each of theSummer Olympic Games andWinter Olympic Games since then. Notably, Romania was the loneEastern Bloc nation not to participate in theSoviet-led boycott of the 1984 Summer Olympics Romanian athletes have won a total of 284 medals, with
gymnastics as the top medal-producing sport. Romania has won the second highest total number of medals (after Hungary) of nations that have never hosted a Games.Medal tables
Medals by Summer Games
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