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Medal record Competitor for 
RomaniaMen's Fencing Olympic Games Gold 2000 Sydney Individual sabre Bronze 2008 Beijing Individual sabre World Championships Gold 2005 Leipzig Individual sabre Silver 2003 Havana Individual sabre Bronze 2002 Lisbon Individual sabre Bronze 2001 Nîmes Team sabre European Championships Bronze 2008 Kiev Individual sabre Mihai Claudiu Covaliu (born 5 November 1977 in Braşov) is a Romanian retired sabre fencer.
Covaliu won the gold medal in the individual sabre event at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games and the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.
Olympic Fencing Champions in Men's Individual Sabre 1896: Ioannis Georgiadis (GRE) • 1900: Georges de la Falaise (FRA) • 1904: Manuel Díaz (CUB) • 1908 – 1912: Jenő Fuchs (HUN) • 1920: Nedo Nadi (ITA) • 1924: Sándor Pósta (HUN) • 1928: Ödön Tersztyánszky (HUN) • 1932: György Piller (HUN) • 1936: Endre Kabos (HUN) • 1948: Aladár Gerevich (HUN) • 1952: Pál Kovács (HUN) • 1956 – 1960: Rudolf Kárpáti (HUN) • 1964: Tibor Pézsa (HUN) • 1968: Jerzy Pawłowski (POL) • 1972: Viktor Sidyak (URS) • 1976 – 1980: Viktor Krovopuskov (URS) • 1984 – 1988: Jean-François Lamour (FRA) • 1992: Bence Szabó (HUN) • 1996: Stanislav Pozdniakov (RUS) • 2000: Mihai Covaliu (ROU) • 2004: Aldo Montano (ITA) • 2008: Zhong Man (CHN)
References
- (Romanian) Mihai Covaliu, bronz la sabie
Categories:- 1977 births
- Living people
- Romanian fencers
- Olympic gold medalists for Romania
- Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
- Fencers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Fencers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic fencers of Romania
- People from Braşov
- Romanian Olympic medalist stubs
- Romanian fencing biography stubs
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