Marcel Glǎvan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Marcel Glǎvan

Canoe racer

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1975

Place of Birth: Galați County, Romania

Profession: canoeist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Marcel Glavan (born 9 March 1975 in Draguseni) 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 Borsan.
He also won a C-4 1000 m gold medal at the 1997 European Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. 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 Glavan.
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".