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Romanian female gymnasts have participated in every Olympic Games since 1952 except for 1968. [2] A total of 74 female gymnasts have represented Romania. Romanian women have won 62 medals at the Olympics – 12 in team all-around, 11 in individual all-around, 10 in balance beam, 13 in floor exercise, 11 in vault, and 5 in uneven bars.
She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976, at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. [ 5 ] At the same Games ( 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal ), she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals.
Romania won team competition bronze medals at the 1956 and 1960 Summer Olympics. They found major success in women's gymnastics starting in 1976. At that year's Olympics, Nadia Comăneci made history, leading Romania to the team silver medal, winning the individual all-around gold medal, and becoming the first woman to score a perfect 10. She ...
Romanian icon Nadia Comaneci — whose perfect 10 on the uneven bars and all-around gold medal routine in 1976 is the stuff of Olympic legend — weighed in on social media with video that appears ...
Chiles remains a two-time Olympic medalist, winning the gold with Team USA in the women’s team artistic all-around final. Chiles and Team USA won the silver in Tokyo for the same category in 2021.
Pages in category "Olympic gold medalists for Romania" The following 124 pages are in this category, out of 124 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Romania entered one mountain biker to compete in the men's cross-country race with a gold-medal victory in the under-23 division at the 2019 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada, marking the country's return to the sport at the Olympics for the first time since Athens 2004. [14] [11]
The Romanian Olympic Committee’s president, Mihai Covaliu, sent a letter of protest to the Gymnastics Federation to contest the result after Maneca-Voinea, 17, decided to quit the sport.