Rareș Dumitrescu
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| Full name | Rareș Eugen Dumitrescu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Dumi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
24 December 1983 Brașov, Romania |
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| Weapon(s) | sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hand | right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 90 kg (200 lb; 14 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National coach(es) | Mihai Covaliu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | CS Dinamo București | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Mihai Covaliu, Alexandru Chiculiță | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FIE Ranking | current ranking | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rareș Dumitrescu (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈrareʃ dumiˈtresku]; born 24 December 1983 in Brașov) is a Romanian sabre fencer, World silver medal in 2009. With the Romanian team he was European champion in 2006, World champion in 2009 and Olympic team silver medal in 2012.
Dumitrescu discovered fencing at age ten by circumstance: his mother, a teacher, had a pupil whose father was a fencing coach. He began training at his local club CS Tractorul under Cătălin Albu, who also served as sparring partner in the absence of other sabre fencers in Brașov: the Olympic center was in Iași. He was also frustrated by a lack of money: his parents had to pay for his travel expenses and entrance fees when he began competition. He did not have dedicated fencing shoes either and wore out dozens of ordinary trainers on the piste. The hard training regimen almost made him quit fencing when he was in high school, but he persevered and transferred in 2003 to CS Dinamo București.
Dumitrescu graduated in 2006 from the Faculty of physical education and sport of the Transilvania University of Brașov and earned in 2008 a master's degree in marketing and sport management from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași. He married in 2009 his high school girlfriend.
Dumitrescu earned his first major title in 2005 with a team bronze medal at the European Championships in Zalaegerszeg. In March 2006 he got on the podium for the first time in a World Cup event with a silver medal in Athens. He also won the European Champion Clubs' Cup with CS Dinamo. A few months later he earned a team gold medal at the European Championships in Izmir.
In 2008 Dumitrescu won his first World Cup title in Madrid. He made his Olympic debut in the Beijing Games, but was eliminated in the table of 16 by France's Julien Pillet. He was again tempted to retire because he was tired of commuting between Brașov and Bucharest, but his former team mate Mihai Covaliu, now coach of the national team, persuaded him to go on.
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