Nicolae Cicu ( rum. Nicolae Ţicu ; June 4, 1953 ) - Romanian kayaker , played for the Romanian team in the late 1970s. Participant in the Summer Olympic Games in Moscow, twice a bronze medalist of the world championships, winner of many regattas of national and international significance.
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| A country |  Romania |
| Specialization | kayak , 10,000 m |
| Date of Birth | June 4, 1953 (66 years old) |
| Growth | 184 cm |
| Weight | 82 kg |
Biography
Nicolae Cicu was born on June 4, 1953.
The first serious success at the adult international level was in 1977, when he was in the main squad of the Romanian national team and attended the World Championships in the Bulgarian Sofia, where he brought the bronze dignity prize won in the standings of double kayaks at a distance of 10,000 meters - only the USSR crews finished better and Hungary. A year later, at the world championship in Yugoslav Belgrade, he won a bronze medal in a ten-kilometer four-man race, skipping forward the crews of the Soviet Union and Poland.
Thanks to a series of successful performances, Tsiku was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow - together with his team mate Alexander Jura , he finished fourth in the final race fourth, not reaching the prize positions a little. Soon after the end of the Moscow Olympics, he decided to end his sports career, losing his place in the national team to young Romanian rowers.
Links
- Nicolae Cicu - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Nicolae Tsiku - medals at major international competitions
- Lists of kayaking and canoeing champions and prize winners (1936-2007 )