Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Comăneci is a Rumanian gymnaste born the November 12th 1961 with Oneşti (Romania). During the Olympic Games of summer of 1976 with Montreal (Canada), it gains three gold medals and one of bronze in individual competition and a medal of money by team.
As of the old one 6 years, Comăneci was noticed by the trainer of Rumanian gymnastics Bela Karolyi which recruited it for the Rumanian team junior of gymnastics and in 1970, it gained the national championship junior. Comăneci continued to gain in its category of age and gained other titles juniors before passing to the competition senior in 1975 and taking part in the Championship of Europe, gaining the general title and three individual tests.
With the Olympic Games of summer of 1976, Nadia Comăneci was the first gymnaste to obtain the maximum note of the judges with one 10.00 with the asymmetric bars. Nadia did not have only once the perfect note of ten out of ten, but seven times! She brought to the Romania the money medal by team, behind the the USSR, then gained the individual gold medals with the asymmetric bars and the beam, while also gaining the general competition. She still took part into 1980 in the Moscow Olympic Games and gained individual gold medals with the floor exercises and with the beam.
After being itself withdrawn of the competition in 1984 it becomes trainer of the Rumanian team junior.
Constantly épiée by the secret police of the president Ceausescu, she escaped from Romania in 1989 for the the United States. She returned in her country of origin only four years later.
She was elected Gymnaste of the century to Vienna in 1999.
Prize list
- Olympic Games
- gold medal of the open competition in 1976 ** gold medal of the asymmetric bars in 1976
- gold medal of the beam in 1976
- gold medal of the beam 1980
- gold medal on the ground 1980
- medal of money by team in 1976
- medal of money of the open competition in 1980
- medal of money by team in 1980
- bronze medal on the ground in 1976
- Championships of the World
- gold medal of the beam in 1978
- gold medal by team in 1979
- medal of money to the jump of horse in 1978
- medal of money by team in 1978
- Championships of Europe
- gold medal of the open competition in 1975
- 3 gold medal by apparatuses in 1975
- gold medal of the open competition in 1977
- gold medal with the asymmetric bars in 1977
- gold medal of the open competition in 1979
- medal of money on the ground in 1975
- medal of money of the beam in 1977
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