Dominique Moceanu
Dominique Helen Moceanu (born September 30, 1981 in Hollywood , California , United States ) is an American gymnast of Romanian descent who won a gold medal as the youngest participant in the Summer Olympics and who became known through a legal dispute with her parents about her childhood .
Life
The Moceanus came to the USA from Romania in 1980. The family lived in California, Illinois, and Florida before moving to Houston . Dominique Moceanu began gymnastics in 1984 and was on the US national team for six years. Her favorite disciplines were floor and balance beam. She speaks Romanian fluently. In 1996, she was on the cover of the magazine Vanity Fair and appeared in a commercial of Kodak -TV.
Dominique Moceanu took part in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta at the age of 14 . She stepped in around competition of the Goodwill Games in. With 77.523 points, she landed first among the women and won the gold medal on the balance beam for the USA alongside five other participants .
On 30 October 1998 she told a court in Houston prematurely age and followed the request of the then 17-year-olds of their parents embezzlement had accused of funds. Camelia and Dumitru Moceanu invested around four million US dollars in revenues without consulting their daughter in order to finance the construction of an art gymnastics camp . Dominique Moceanu charged her parents with: “I was just her business. They stole my childhood - and my money, ”she said.
She accused her parents of stealing their childhood through the exercise program. Camelia and Dumitru Moceanu are said to have mishandled the prize money their daughter won and Dominique not offered the things that normal girls would have done their age.
Because of an injury to the knee joint that occurred during training , she had to forego the World Cup in October in the People's Republic of China in 1999 and undergo an operation . The following year she had to give up on the eve of the US Trials in Boston for the same reason and could no longer participate in the 2000 Olympic Games .
Dominique Moceanu attended Northland Christian School and graduated in the fall of 1997 with the eleventh grade. She published an autobiography entitled "Dominique Moceanu: An American Champion". Her family owns the Moceanu Gymnastics gymnastics center in Houston.
On March 13, 2009, Dominique Moceanu became the mother of a son, Vincent Michael.
family
The parents Camelia and Dumitru Moceanu were born in Romania , they were both active competitive gymnasts . Her father Dumitru was on the Romanian junior national team and her mother Camelia was a level 10 gymnast.
Dominique has two younger sisters, Jennifer Bricker , b. October 1, 1987, and Christina, born on August 24, 1989. Both sisters are gymnasts too, Jennifer despite the fact that she has no legs. Dominique was Jennifer's idol before she found out she was her sister.
Web links
- The 1st german Dominique Moceanu Homepage
- Prematurely of age. In: Berliner Zeitung . October 30, 1998, accessed June 8, 2015 .
- Hamburger Morgenpost - Child Accuses Parents: "Divorce" (December 2, 1998)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lynn, Allison: Champion Gymnast's Hidden Life: Dominique Moceanu on Secret Sister , ABC News . June 8, 2012. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
- ↑ Moceanu's profile at USA Gymnastics ( Memento of 10 December 1997 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Interview in Galileo Big Pictures - Heroes , 2nd place, broadcast on September 3, 2016, available online
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moceanu, Dominique |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moceanu, Dominique Helen (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1981 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hollywood , California , United States |