Ion Cămărășescu

[1] He completed high school in his native city, and then studied at the University of Paris, taking a degree in law.

[1][5] He himself practiced several sports: tennis, horse riding, skiing, and bobsleigh, being in 1909 the first Romanian participant in a Winter Olympics (in the bobsled competition in Stockholm).

He was the organizer of the first cycling tour of Romania in 1910, the year in which he also participated in the automobile competition on the Bucharest–Târgoviște route, which he won with an hourly average of 100 km/h (62 mph), a European record at the time.

[1] Cămărășescu began his political career in the Conservative Party, serving as cabinet director for Constantin G. Dissescu, Religious Affairs and Public Instruction Minister in 1906–1907.

[8] In March 1949, the communist regime nationalized his farm in Dâlga and assigned Cămărășescu and his family to forced residence in Curtea de Argeș.