Regions of Moldova

The country now known as Moldova was a part of the Ottoman Empire and known as Bessarabia. In 1812 it was annexed by the Russian Empire.
Briefly independent in 1918, it merged with Romania (Romanian and Moldavian are considered by some the same language).
After WWII, Moldavia became part of the Soviet Union.
Moldova achieved independence in 1991.

Olympians born before 1918 in Moldova (then Russia):

  1. (40.00) Georgy de Davydov (rus-MDA/SHO/1912)

Olympians born between 1918 and 1945 in Moldova (then Romanian):

  1. (23400) Lia Manoliu (ROU/ATH/1952-72)
  2. (1000) Anatol Grințescu (ROU/WAT/1960-64)
  3. (143.5) Eugenia Mateianu (ROU/FEN/1960)
  4. (750.0) Gheorghe Popovici (ROU/WRG/1960-64)
Written 2020-07-17 - last modified 2020-07-17

This page is part of the site "Full Olympians" by Herman De Wael. See here for a full Introduction.