Andreea Raducan
Andreea Răducan medal table |
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Romania | ||
Olympic games | ||
gold | 2000 Sydney | Team all-around |
silver | 2000 Sydney | Leap |
World championships | ||
gold | 1999 Tianjin | Team all-around |
gold | 1999 Tianjin | ground |
silver | 1999 Tianjin | bar |
gold | 2001 Ghent | Team all-around |
gold | 2001 Ghent | Balance beam |
gold | 2001 Ghent | ground |
bronze | 2001 Ghent | Individual all-around |
bronze | 2001 Ghent | Leap |
European championships | ||
silver | 2000 Paris | ground |
bronze | 2000 Paris | Team all-around |
Andreea Mădălina Răducan (born September 30, 1983 in Bârlad ) is a former Romanian artistic gymnast . She was world champion several times and won the team all-round competition with the Romanian team at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. Also in Sydney she was Olympic champion in the individual all-around competition, but had to surrender this medal due to a doping offense .
Life
Răducan started gymnastics at the age of four. In 1999 she was able to win a title at international championships for the first time. She became world champion with the team and on the ground in Tianjin and won silver on the balance beam .
At the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Răducan also won the gold medal with the Romanian team. In addition, she won the individual all-around event , but had to surrender the medal again because she tested positive for the banned stimulant pseudoephedrine after winning the individual all-around event . Răducan stated, however, that he unknowingly took the remedy. A team doctor had given her the drug because of a cold. This doctor was banned from the Olympic Games up to and including 2004. There were demonstrations in Romania in which the population expressed their solidarity with Răducan. Răducan was allowed to keep her team gold medal because she had not been tested after this competition. The silver medal at the jump also remained in her possession, since the doping test after this competition was negative. In the same year she was awarded the Order of Loyalty to the rank of commander.
In 2001 Răducan returned to the international stage, but for the sake of safety and health, dispensed with some acrobatic elements in their exercises. Nevertheless, she was once again world champion with the Romanian team. In addition, she won the title on the balance beam and floor at the World Championships in Ghent. However, she did not succeed in winning the individual all-around competition like in Sydney. In this competition she was third. In 2002 Răducan took part again in the World Championships before ending her athletic career in 2003 to focus on her school education and a career in television.
After her active career, Răducan worked for Romanian television and for the foundation of the National Olympic Committee of Romania. She is currently studying at the University of Bucharest with the aim of obtaining a master's degree in journalism. In December 2010, her autobiography "Reversul medaliei" was published by the Cărțile Tango publishing house. In 2017 Răducan was elected President of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation.
Floor music
- 1998-99: Las Carretas del Rocio
- 2000: Reel Around the Sun from the album Riverdance by Bill Whelan
- 2001: Eclipse from the Album Nouvelle Experience of Cirque du Soleil
Web links
- Andreea Răducan in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
- Andreea Răducan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Athlete portrait by Andreea Răducan at romanian-gymnastics.com
- Official website (English, Romanian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ No mercy for Raducan. Spiegel Online , September 28, 2000, accessed November 9, 2009 .
- ^ Spiegel Online: The deep fall of the gymnastics queen . Retrieved November 11, 2009.
- ↑ DECRET No. 384 of October 10, 2000
- ↑ Gymmedia: "Don't trust an adult" . Retrieved November 11, 2009
- ↑ CBC.ca: Raducan retires from gymnastics . Retrieved November 11, 2009
- ↑ LEON: “If I do something, then I want to do it perfectly” ( Memento from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . Retrieved November 11, 2009
- ↑ Revista Tango of December 9, 2010 ( Memento of December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 21, 2011 (Romanian)
- ↑ Andreea Răducan este noul președinte al Federației Române de Gimnastică , August 4, 2017
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Răducan, Andreea |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Răducan, Andreea Mădălina (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian gymnast |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1983 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bârlad , Vaslui County |