Aurel Macarencu (born March 8, 1963) is a

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sprint canoer Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today ...

who competed from 1985 to 1988.

Career

Macarencu won five medals at the

ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two top-tier Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). They ...

with two golds (C-1 1000 m and C-1 10000 m: both

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), one silver (C-1 500 m: 1986), and two bronzes (C-1 500 m and C-1 1000 m: both

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). Macarencu competed at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and officially branded as Seoul 1988 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea. 159 nations were represe ...

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, finishing fifth in the C-1 1000 m and sixth in the C-1 500 m events.

Bibliography

* * * 1963 births Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists for Romania Romanian male canoeists ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in Canadian Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Romanian sportsmen {{Romania-canoe-bio-stub