His father, Dănilă Sârbu, soon got a job at the Tunari Sports Shooting Range, whose manager he became just after World War II.

[3] In the first national championship after the war (1946) he became Romanian champion in the free rifle, standing event, scoring 358 points.

His first international victory came in the Balkan championships in Belgrade (1948) where he won the free rifle, prone event.

At the 1952 Olympics he won the small-bore rifle 50 metres, prone event, setting a new world record at 400 points.

The circumstances of his death were never officially explained or confirmed, but it is widely believed that he committed suicide, after a medical verdict not only denied him participation in the 1964 Olympic games in Tokyo, but stated he would never be able to compete again, because of his eye condition.