Aurelia Dobre

Aurelia Dobre at the 1988 Olympic Games

At the 1987 World Championships

Aurelia Dobre (now Aurelia Mofid * 16th November 1972 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian gymnast who by Adrian Goreac was trained.

Life

Before it became known that the age of the Russian Olga Bicherova was wrong when she won her first title in 1981, Aurelia Dobre was considered the youngest world champion in her sport for years. At the World Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam in 1987, at the age of 14 years and 352 days, she won the first of her three World Championship medals, in the end it was the titles on the balance beam , in the all-around competition and with the relay. There were also bronze medals on the jump and on the ground. In the following years she had to fight repeatedly with injuries. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul , she only won one silver medal with the relay. Dobre achieved the same result at the 1989 World Cup in Stuttgart . She then resigned from competitive sports due to various injury problems.

Dobre was considered an elegant sportswoman with clean technology. In her career she got a "perfect ten" five times. In 1991 she caused a sensation when she posed naked for the Dutch Playboy and gave an interview there and for a Romanian newspaper in which she criticized the methods and conditions in Romanian artistic gymnastics before the political change. In 1992 she moved to the USA, where she married Boz Mofid , Oksana Omeliantschik's Iranian ex-husband , and had four children. Dobre now works as a choreographer and dance teacher in her husband's gym in Maryland .

In 2016 she was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame .

Web links

Commons : Aurelia Dobre  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Aurelia Dobre in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Aurelia Dobre in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait of Aurelia Dobre at romanian-gymnastics.com
• Result list (Engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Iulian Anghel: Acum 25 de ani poza in Playboy. In: adevarul.ro. Adevărul , September 21, 2016, accessed July 11, 2017 (Romanian).  
2. ^ Iulian Anghel: Cine este a zecea gimnastă din România care a fost primită în Hall of Fame. In: adevarul.ro. Adevărul, May 23, 2016, accessed July 11, 2017 (Romanian).