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A 2016 Romanian postage stamp showing Comăneci on the balance beam at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal ... Place Nadia Comaneci ... Video clips: Nadia Comăneci makes ...
Nadia Comăneci Mariana Constantin Georgeta Gabor Anca Grigoraș Gabriela Trușcă Teodora Ungureanu East Germany (GDR) Carola Dombeck Gitta Escher Kerstin Gerschau Angelika Hellmann Marion Kische Steffi Kräker: Balance beam details: Nadia Comăneci Romania: Olga Korbut Soviet Union: Teodora Ungureanu Romania: Floor exercise details: Nellie ...
The scoreboard had been designed with only three digits due to the apparent impossibility of a perfect score, so at the time, it only read, "1.00". Nadia would later follow her first perfect score with two others in the optional round and the final, to finish on a perfect score of 20.
Nadia Comăneci, who competed at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics, won nine total Olympic medals, the most of any Romanian female gymnast. [3] She won five medals in 1976, including golds in individual all-around, balance beam, and uneven bars. She also became the first woman to ever score a perfect 10 at the Olympics. In 1980, she won four more ...
Bela Karolyi, the legendary and controversial Romanian American gymnastics coach who helped lead Mary Lou Retton, Nadia Comaneci and Kerri Strug to Olympic gold, has died, USA Gymnastics announced.
Bela Karolyi coached Nadia Comaneci to the first Olympics perfect 10 and Mary Lou Retton to all-around gold. ... Karolyi shook up the sport in 1976, when he arrived at the Montreal Olympics with a ...
Nadia Comăneci poses beside the scoreboard that recorded her perfect 10 as 1.00 (with no Olympic precedent, the sign was incapable of displaying a 10.00).. A perfect 10 is a score of 10.000 for a single routine in artistic gymnastics, which was once thought to be unattainable—particularly at the Olympic Games—under the code of points set by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
On November 27, 1989, Nadia Comăneci, the famous Romanian gymnast Conner had met at the 1976 Montreal games, defected from Romania with a group of other Romanians. In January 1990, when Conner read in the newspaper that she was scheduled to be interviewed on The Pat Sajak Show , he contacted the producer and arranged to make a guest appearance ...