Marcel Glăvan

Marcel Glăvan (born 9 March 1975 in Drăgușeni) is a Romanian-born Spanish flatwater canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). During the mid-1990s, he won two world championship titles in the C-4 event. He was an Olympic silver medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the C-2 1000 m event with partner Antonel Borșan. He also won a C-4 1000 m gold medal at the 1997 European Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

Quick facts Medal record, Men's canoe sprint ...

Marcel Glăvan

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Representing  Romania
Olympic Games
	1996 Atlanta	C-2 1000 m
World Junior Championships
	1993 Racice	C-1 500 m
	1993 Racice	C-4 1000 m
	1993 Racice	C-2 500 m
World Championships
	1995 Duisburg	C-4 1000 m
	1997 Dartmouth	C-4 1000 m
	1994 Mexico City	C-4 500 m
	1994 Mexico City	C-4 1000 m
	1995 Duisburg	C-2 1000 m
	1995 Duisburg	C-4 500 m
	1997 Dartmouth	C-4 500 m

Close

Competition for a place in the Romanian national team is famously stiff and after a disappointing seventh place in the C-4 1000 m at the 1998 world championships team leader Ivan Patzaichin dropped various stars, including Glăvan. He thus found himself an ex-international at the age of just 23. In 2000, he took Spanish nationality and represented his adopted country at the 2001 and 2002 world championships, reaching the C-4 1000 m final both times.

He is now a coach for High Performance "Infanta Cristina".