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Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner [a] (née Comăneci; born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian retired gymnast. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events.
Comaneci paid tribute to Karolyi with a post on her Instagram, showing a carousel of photos that included a black-and-white photo of her with the coach on a walk in the woods. The caption read: "A ...
Ironically, the Romanian withdrawal happened right after Nadia Comăneci's performance, for which she received a perfect 10. If she had not left the building, she would have won the gold medal in the beam finals.
Károlyi was born in Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania). [2] Skilled as an athlete, he became a national junior boxing champion and a member of the Romanian hammer throwing team. [3] He enrolled at the Romania College of Physical Education, studying and practicing gymnastics after having had trouble with a mandatory skills test in ...
Event Gold Silver Bronze Seniors: All-around details Nadia Comăneci (ROU) Nellie Kim (URS) Annelore Zinke (GDR) Vault details Nadia Comăneci (ROU) Richarda Schmeißer (GDR)
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 ...
Nadia is a 1984 made-for-television biopic directed by Alan Cooke [1] about Olympic gymnast Nadia Comăneci. Comăneci herself had nothing to do with the production of the film (the content of which was described to her by others).
There, Korbut's first trainer was Elena Volchetskaya, an Olympic gold medalist (1964), [2] but she was moved to Knysh's group a year later. Initially he found her "lazy and capricious" but he also saw potential in her great talent, unusually supple spine, and charisma. [2] With him, she learned a difficult backward somersault on the balance beam.