Romanian Fencing Federation
The Romanian Fencing Federation () is the governing body for the sport of fencing in Romania. Affiliated to the Federation Internationale d'Escrime since 1914, it is a member of the European Fencing Confederation and of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee. According to the National Institute of Statistics, the federation had 1238 fencers in 2011. Its budget, granted by the Ministry of Youth and Sport, grew from 2.5 million lei in 2012 to 3 million lei in 2014. As of 2014, 45 clubs are affiliated to the federation. One third of them are situated in Bucharest; the most  important are CS Dinamo, financed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and CSA Steaua, run by the Ministry of National Defense. The other clubs are based in Iași, Brașov, Satu Mare, Oradea, and Craiova. The federation runs the Romanian Cup () and the Romanian national fencing championships. History. The first governing body of fencing in Romania was the Federation of Fencing and Gymnastics Societies (), created in 1906, then in 1912 the Federation of Sport Societies (), of which fencing was a committee. The FRS proper was founded in 1931 as a temporary organisation and officially recognised by the Union of Sports Federations  of Romania (UFSR) in 1932. Governance. The FRS is governed by an executive committee, with Olympic champion and national coach for men's sabre Mihai Covaliu as president, Mihai Dincă and Colonel George Boroi (president of CSA Steaua) as vicepresidents, and international referee Marius Florea as general secretary. Octavian Zidaru, national coach for women's épée, serves as technical director. The federation comprises the following bodies: