Cristina Nicolau

The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Cristina Nicolau (9 August 1977, in Bucharest – 5 December 2017^[1]) was a Romanian triple jumper.

Her personal best jump was 14.70 metres, achieved in August 1999 in Gothenburg. This mark places her jump third in the all-time Romanian woman triple jumper record list, only behind Rodica Mateescu and Adelina Gavrilă.^[2] Cristina Nicolau died on 5 December 2017, aged 40.

Achievements

Year	Competition	Venue	Position	Event	Notes
Representing Romania
1992	World Junior Championships	Seoul, South Korea	10th	Long jump	5.98 m (wind: -0.9 m/s)
1994	World Junior Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	9th	Long jump	6.27 m (wind: +1.9 m/s)
1996	World Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	2nd	Long jump	6.47 m (wind: +0.2 m/s)
1996	World Junior Championships	Sydney, Australia	2nd	Triple jump	13.64 m (wind: +0.4 m/s)
1997	Universiade	Catania, Italy	3rd	Long jump	6.40 m
	European U23 Championships	Turku, Finland	2nd	Long jump	6.43 m (wind: 0.6 m/s)
	European U23 Championships	Turku, Finland	1st	Triple jump	14.22 m (wind: 1.1 m/s)
1999	European U23 Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	4th	Long jump	6.50 m (wind: 0.8 m/s)
	European U23 Championships	Gothenburg, Sweden	1st	Triple jump	14.70 m (wind: 1.3 m/s)
	World Championships	Seville, Spain	8th	Triple jump	14.38 m
2000	European Indoor Championships	Ghent, Belgium	2nd	Triple jump	14.63 m
2000	Olympic Games	Sydney, Australia	6th	Triple jump	14.17 m
2001	World Indoor Championships	Lisbon, Portugal	6th	Triple jump	14.05 m
2001	World Championships	Edmonton, Canada	6th	Triple jump	14.17 m
2002	European Indoor Championships	Vienna, Austria	5th	Triple jump	14.11 m
2002	European Championships	Munich, Germany	5th	Triple jump	14.39 m
2003	Military World Games	Catania, Italy	3rd	Long jump	5.93 m
2003	Military World Games	Catania, Italy	1st	Triple jump	13.45 m

References

^ "A murit una dintre cele mai valoroase atlete din România de după Revoluţie" (in Romanian). prosport.ro. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.
^ "IAAF: 60 Metres - men - senior - indoor - 2018". iaaf.org. Retrieved 8 December 2017.

External links

Cristina Nicolau at World Athletics

This biographical article relating to Romanian athletics is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] "A murit una dintre cele mai valoroase atlete din România de după Revoluţie" (in Romanian). prosport.ro. 5 December 2017. Retrieved 8 December 2017.

[2] "IAAF: 60 Metres - men - senior - indoor - 2018". iaaf.org. Retrieved 8 December 2017.

[1]

[2]