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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).
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. 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]
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 ...
Karolyi, who was born in Cluj-Napoca in Romania, coached 14-year-old Comaneci to gold at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. Her uneven bars routine was awarded a perfect 10.0 - the first time in Olympic ...
Bela Karolyi coached Nadia Comaneci to the first Olympics perfect 10 and Mary Lou Retton to all-around gold. ... but Karolyi’s team had just one gymnast older than 14. Romania won the silver ...
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.
Romanian gymnasts Ana Bărbosu and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea finished the event in a third-place tie with scores of 13.700. ... Romanian icon Nadia Comaneci — whose perfect 10 on the uneven bars and ...
In her career, she earned 24 perfect 10 scores, from which 7 were earned in Seoul, equalizing 1976 Nadia Comăneci's record. Silivaș was chosen as one of the "Top Ten All-Around Gymnasts of All Time", in a poll in Inside Gymnastics magazine. [2] She was known for her technical excellence, difficult routines, charming performances, and artistic ...