The number two seeds completed a 44-38 victory over China, who were champions in London four years ago.
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Romania, who finished sixth in the team epee in London, were in control throughout the game after winning the opening bout.
The Russian team secured their sixth bronze of these games with a narrow 37-31 victory over Estonia.
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Michelle Mellotte, 61, took the money from Michael McGrory in February 2010, saying it would be repaid that summer.
But, it was only returned following the start of a police investigation.
Ms Mellotte knew her patient was suffering from Alzheimer's when she asked him for the loan.
She went to his home to "ask him for a favour" and he agreed to sign a cheque for £10,000 with an endorsement that it would be paid back in the summer of 2010.
In April, Ms Mellotte admitted fraud by abuse of her role and was given a suspended prison sentence and was suspended from the medical register.
Last week, the ruling was endorsed following a hearing by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in St James's Buildings in Manchester.
The tribunal noted that Ms Mellotte, who did not attend the hearing, did not oppose the GMC's case against he.
In written submissions, the former doctor's legal team stated she accepted the "appropriate sanction" was erasure.
Summarising the case against her, the tribunal chairman, Sean Ell, said: "The tribunal has determined that Dr Mellotte has put patients at unwarranted risk of harm, she has brought the profession into disrepute, she has breached fundamental tenets of the profession and her integrity cannot be relied upon."
She will no longer be able to practice as a doctor in the UK.

An ornate Roman coin, medieval silver pennies, a copper figurine, a thimble, window glass and a key were unearthed.
Foundations were also discovered, showing the original structure of Auckland Castle in County Durham was "significantly larger" than thought.
Curatorial director Dr Christopher Ferguson said he was "really excited to have uncovered such a major finding".
It suggests the castle was not created as a manor house for the Prince Bishops of Durham, as previously thought, but that it had always been a large castle complex.
A five-month excavation has been carried out ahead of a new museum extension in the castle's Scotland Wing, formerly used to hold Scottish prisoners of war.
Durham University archaeological services manager Peter Carne said the work had "enabled an unprecedented amount" of research into the castle and its grounds.
The new museum, due to open in 2019, will look at the history of faith in Britain.

A study of more than 250 plants and animals suggests their ability to adapt to changes in rainfall and temperature will be vastly outpaced by future climate change.
Amphibians, reptiles and plants are particularly vulnerable, according to US researchers.
And tropical species are at higher risk than those in temperate zones.
Some animals might be able to move geographically to cope with rising temperatures, but others live in isolated areas where they cannot move, such as in nature reserves or on mountains or islands.
Ecologists analysed how quickly species had changed their climatic niches (the conditions where they can survive) over time, and how these rates compared with that of global warming.
They analysed 266 populations of plants and animals, including insects, amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles.
Rates of change in climatic niches were much slower than rates of projected climate change, by more than 200,000 fold for temperature (on average), they said.
"Overall, our results show that rates of climatic niche change among populations of plants and animals are dramatically slower than projected rates of future climate change," said Tereza Jezkova and John Wiens, of the University of Arizona.
Mammals and birds might be better placed to survive than amphibians and reptiles, because they had the ability to regulate their own body temperatures, said Dr Wiens.
And, while some species might be able to move to higher latitudes or elevations to survive, "for a lot of organisms, that is not an option".
"It's a double jeopardy of climate change and habitat destruction," he told BBC News.
The research is published in the journal, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
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Romania's women won gold in the women's team epee to secure their country's first medal at Rio 2016.
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