Vasile Groapă

{{Short description|Romanian weightlifter (born 1955)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Vasile Groapă

| image = Vasile Groapa 1984.jpg

| caption = Groapă at the 1984 Olympics

| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|23 March 1955}}

| birth_place = Cârlig, Romania

| height = 175 cm

| show-medals = yes

| sport = Weightlifting

| club = Steagul Rosu
CSA Steaua București

| coach = Gheorghe Piticaru
Stefan Achim

| medaltemplates =

{{MedalCountry | {{ROM}} }}

{{MedalCompetition | Olympic Games }}

{{MedalSilver|1984 Los Angeles | -100 kg }}

}}

Vasile Groapă (born 23 March 1955) is a retired Romanian heavyweight weightlifter. He competed at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1984.{{cite book | last1=Nauright | first1=J. | last2=Parrish | first2=C. | title=Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice | publisher=ABC-CLIO | series=Sports around the world : history, culture, and practice / John Nauright, Charles Parrish, editors | year=2012 | isbn=978-1-59884-300-2 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IkLYDgTnMxEC&pg=RA3-PA208 | access-date=29 April 2023 | page=208}} He retired in 1987 after an injury sustained while training.