About Vintilă Cristescu
Lived 1896 – 1971 (aged 74–75). Vintilă Cristescu was a Romanian athletics competitor.
Vintilǎ Cristescu (1896 – October 1971) was a Romanian long-distance runner and a football player.
Career Cristescu was a football player in the 1910s at Colțea București. In 1920, together with Colțea București teammates Iacobescu and Puiu Pavel, they founded Colțea Brașov, a team that would win the national championship in the 1927–28 season with Cristescu as its leader. His long-distance runner career began in 1921 when he won the first national marathon race held in Romania, running 42,192 km.
Cristescu was also a colonel in the Romanian Army His father, captain Sava Cristescu, fought in World War I in the Battle of Brașov.
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Who was Vintilă Cristescu?
Romanian athletics competitor
When was Vintilă Cristescu born?
Vintilă Cristescu was born in 1896 in Brașov.
When did Vintilă Cristescu die?
Vintilă Cristescu died in 1971.
What was Vintilă Cristescu's occupation?
Vintilă Cristescu was an athletics competitor.
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Vintilă Cristescu was Romanian.
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