Gheorghe Megelea
Romanian javelin thrower
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Born | 14 March 1954 (1954-03-14) (age 70) Reşiţa, Romania[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | Javelin throw | |||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Daniel Maier Alexandru Bizim[2] | |||||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 88.00 m (1977) | |||||||||||||||||
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Gheorghe Megelea (born 14 March 1954) is a retired Romanian javelin thrower who won a bronze medal at the 1976 Olympics. In 1977–78, he defected via Great Britain to Canada.[2]
References
- ^ Gheorghe Megelea Archived 15 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b Gheorghe Megelea. Romanian Olympic Committee
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Summer Universiade champions in men's javelin throw
- 1959: Hermann Salomon (FRG)
- 1961: Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)
- 1963: Jānis Lūsis (URS)
- 1965: Rolf Herings (FRG)
- 1967: Dave Travis (GBR)
- 1970: Miklós Németh (HUN)
- 1973: Jānis Zirnis (URS)
- 1975: Gheorghe Megelea (ROM)
- 1977: Vasiliy Yershov (URS)
- 1979: Helmut Schreiber (FRG)
- 1981–1983: Dainis Kūla (URS)
- 1985: Dumitru Negoiţă (ROM)
- 1987: Marek Kaleta (URS)
- 1989–1991: Steve Backley (GBR)
- 1993: Louis Fouché (RSA)
- 1995: Zhang Lianbiao (CHN)
- 1997: Marius Corbett (RSA)
- 1999–2001: Ēriks Rags (LAT)
- 2003: Igor Janik (POL)
- 2005: Ainārs Kovals (LAT)
- 2007: Vadims Vasiļevskis (LAT)
- 2009: Ainārs Kovals (LAT)
- 2011: Fatih Avan (TUR)
- 2013: Dmitriy Tarabin (RUS)
- 2015: Tanel Laanmäe (EST)
- 2017: Cheng Chao-tsun (TPE)
- 2019: Andrian Mardare (MDA)
- 2021: Edis Matusevičius (LTU)
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