Florin Popescu
Florin Popescu is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two Olympic medals at Sydney in 2000 with teammate Mitică Pricop. He won a total of seven world championship gold medals as well as seven European championship golds, making him the most successful Romanian paddler of modern times.
Injury forced Popescu to retire at the end of the 2005 season after winning his seventh world title at the World Championships in Zagreb, Croatia.
Popescu is 183 cm tall and raced at 79 kg. He lists his interests as football, motor racing and handball. He was voted Romanian Sportsman of the Year in 1993.
