Aurel Vernescu

Career

He died on December 1, 2008 from a cardiac insufficiency.

Achievements

• Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a silver (1972: K-4 1000 m) and two bronze (1964: both K-1 1000 m and K-4 1000 m). Vernescu also won eleven medals at the International Coach Federation Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1963, 1966. K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1966), five silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1963, K-1 4 x 500 m: 1970, 1971, K-2 500 m: 1966, 1970. K-2 1000 m: 1966), and one bronze (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1966).