- Corneliu Ion
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Olympic medal record Men's Shooting Gold 1980 Moscow Rapid-Fire Pistol Silver 1984 Los Angeles Rapid-Fire Pistol Corneliu Ion (born June 27, 1951) is a Romanian sports shooter and Olympic Champion.
He was born in Focşani.
He won Gold medal in Rapid-Fire Pistol in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and obtained a silver medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.[1]
References
- ^ Profile: "Corneliu Ion" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on January 16, 2008)
Olympic champions in men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol 1896: Ioannis Frangoudis • 1900: Maurice Larrouy • 1912: Alfred Lane • 1920: Guilherme Paraense • 1924: Henry Bailey • 1932: Renzo Morigi • 1936: Cornelius van Oyen • 1948: Károly Takács • 1952: Károly Takács • 1956: Ştefan Petrescu • 1960: William McMillan • 1964: Pentti Linnosvuo • 1968: Józef Zapędzki • 1972: Józef Zapędzki • 1976: Norbert Klaar • 1980: Corneliu Ion • 1984: Takeo Kamachi • 1988: Afanasijs Kuzmins • 1992: Ralf Schumann • 1996: Ralf Schumann • 2000: Sergei Alifirenko • 2004: Ralf Schumann • 2008: Oleksandr PetrivThis biographical article relating to sport shooting is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.