Sanda Toma (rower)

Sanda Toma ( born February 24, 1956 in Ştefăneşti, county Botosani ) is a former Romanian rower. She won Olympic gold in 1980 in the One.

Sanda Toma won her first major title at the World Rowing Championships in Bled in 1979 when she received before Martina Schröter from the GDR and Blanchette Borrias from the Netherlands the gold medal in One.

At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in one of eleven rowers were at the start, including six from the Eastern Bloc. Only the Hungarian Mariann Ambrus not reached the final, the British Beryl Mitchell entered the finals as the only rower from the West. In the target Sanda Toma had a second ahead of Antonina Machina from the Soviet Union, Martina Schröter won two seconds behind the bronze medal.

The winning streak of Sanda Toma continued in 1981. She won her second world title in front of Beryl Mitchell and Irina Fetissowa from the Soviet Union at the World Championships at the Rowing Course near Munich.