Camelia Diaconescu

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Camelia Diaconescu in the 1980s

Camelia Diaconescu (born February 2, 1963 in Văleni , Neamț County ) is a former Romanian rower who won an Olympic medal in 1984.

Athletic career

The 1.78 m tall Camelia Diaconescu won in 1981 at the Junior World Championships together with Anișoara Sorohan the title in double sculls .

At the world championships in 1983 in Duisburg, the boat from the Soviet Union won in the eighth ahead of the boats from the United States, the GDR and Canada. The Romanian eighth with Olguta Onofrei , Ioana Badea , Camelia Diaconescu, Lucia Sauca , M. Gligor, Anișoara Sorohan , Aurora Pleșca , Mihaela Armășescu and helmsman Elena Nedelcu took fifth place ahead of the Bulgarians.

Because of the Olympic boycott of the Warsaw Pact states, of the six eights from the 1983 World Cup final, only the USA, Canada and Romania competed in the 1984 Olympic Games . There were also boats from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. Since only six boats entered, there were no preliminary runs. The eighth from the United States won by one second over the Romanians and two seconds behind the Dutch women. Doina Bălan , Marioara Traşcă , Aurora Pleşca, Aneta Mihaly , Adriana Bazon , Mihaela Armăşescu, Camelia Diaconescu, Lucia Sauca and helmswoman Viorica Ioja sat in the Romanian eighth .

At the 1985 World Championships in Hazewinkel , the eighth from the Soviet Union won ahead of the boat from the GDR and the Romanians, who were four and a half seconds behind the boat from the GDR, but won the bronze medal 0.3 seconds ahead of the US eighth. The crew consisted of Doina Bălan, Marioara Traşcă, Livia Țicanu , Mihaela Armăşescu, Adriana Bazon, Carolina Matei , Camelia Diaconescu, Lucia Toader (-Sauca) and helmsman Ecaterina Oancia .

Camelia Diaconescu won her last international medal at the 1986 World Championships in Nottingham . As in the previous year, the Soviet eight won ahead of the eighth from the GDR. One and a half seconds behind the GDR eighth, the Romanians won the bronze medal in the line-up of Mihaela Armășescu, Camelia Diaconescu, Carolina Matei, Adriana Bazon, Veronica Necula , Livia icanu, Florica Lavric , Herta Anitaș and taxwoman Mariana Dorobantu .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ eight finals in 1983 at worldrowing.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1020f
  3. ↑ aft final 1985 at worldrowing.com
  4. ↑ eight finals in 1986 at worldrowing.com
personal data
SURNAME Diaconescu, Camelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian rower
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd February 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Văleni , Neamț County