[1] Panţuru took up bobsleigh at the age of 24, after playing as a football goalkeeper at the Divizia B-level.

At the same Olympics he was also close to a bronze medal in the four-man competition, placing fourth.

At the FIBT World Championships he won two medals in the two-man event, together with another brakeman Dumitru Focșeneanu, with a silver in 1969 and a bronze in 1973.

[3] Panţuru lost his 1969 World Championships medal in a car on his way to the airport.

[3] For his sports achievements he was made an honorary citizen of three Romanian towns: Comarnic, Sinaia and Busteni.