Emilia Ciosu

Emilia Ciosu (born February 7, 1971 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian table tennis player . In the 1990s she won the European ranking tournament and took part in the Olympic Games twice.

youth

The right-hander Emilia Ciosu already attracted attention in her youth through international success. So in 1995 she was second in the European Championships for Cadets behind Otilia Bădescu , with whom she was also European Champion in doubles and with the Romanian team in this tournament. In 1986 she was in the final of the European Junior Championships in mixed with the Croatian Zoran Primorac , two years later she reached the individual semi-finals.

Adults

In the period from 1986 to 1994 Emilia Ciosu was Romanian champion 11 times, five times in singles, four times in doubles and twice in mixed. From 1991 to 1997 she took part in four world championships and was fourth with the women's team in 1995 . She was also nominated four times for European championships . In 1992 she became European champion with the team. In 1996 she won bronze in doubles with Otilia Bădescu and in mixed with Lucjan Błaszczyk . Another success was the victory in the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 in 1993 before Olga Nemes .

Emilia Ciosu qualified for the Summer Olympics twice. In 1992 she reached the quarter-finals in singles, where she was eliminated against the Korean Hyeon Jeong-Hwa. The double with Adriana Năstase-Simion-Zamfir failed in the qualification. Also in the qualification, she was eliminated in 1996 in both singles and doubles with Georgeta Cojocaru.

In the 1994/95 season she helped the German top division club Spvg. Birkener Höhe (Rhineland-Palatinate) to rise through a top game.

Her best place in the ITTF world rankings was 24th at the end of 1995.

Private

Emilia Ciosu is married.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
ROU	Balkan Championship	1993	Constanza	ROU	gold		gold	1
ROU	Balkan Championship	1991	Sakarya	DOOR	Semifinals	silver		1
ROU	European Championship	1996	Bratislava	SVK	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Semifinals
ROU	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER				1
ROU	European Championship	1990	Gothenburg	SWE	last 16
ROU	European Youth Championship (Cadets)	1985	The hague	NED	silver	gold		1
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1988	Novi Sad	YUG	Semifinals
ROU	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1986	Louvin La Neuve	BEL			silver
ROU	EURO TOP12	1996	Charleroi	BEL	5
ROU	EURO TOP12	1995	Dijon	FRA	2
ROU	EURO TOP12	1994	Arezzo	ITA	5
ROU	EURO TOP12	1993	Copenhagen	THE	1
ROU	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	immediately excluded	immediately excluded
ROU	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	Quarter finals	immediately excluded
United States	Pro tour	1998	Houston	United States	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
ROU	Pro tour	1997	Fort Lauderdale	United States	last 16	last 16
ROU	Pro tour	1996	Belgrade	YUG		Semifinals
ROU	Pro tour	1996	Fort Lauderdale	United States	Quarter finals
ROU	World Championship	1997	Manchester	CLOSELY	last 32	Quarter finals	last 128	7th
ROU	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 32	last 16	last 32	4th
ROU	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	last 16	last 16	9
ROU	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 64	last 32	last 128	6th
ROU	WTC World Team Cup	1995	Atlanta	United States				2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Romanian Championships: Women's Singles ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed February 7, 2012). 
2. ↑ Romanian Championships: Ladies Doubles ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed February 7, 2012). 
3. ↑ Romanian Championships: Mixed ( Memento of the original from May 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed February 7, 2012). 
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/6 page 38.
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/9 regional southwest page 1.
6. ↑ 50 years of the Tischtennis-Verband Rheinland eV, page 44 (accessed on February 6, 2016).
7. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ITTF world rankings ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed February 7, 2012).  
8. ^ Emilia Ciosu results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed February 7, 2012).

literature

• Manfred Schäfer: Emilia Ciosu impressed everyone - A star is born , DTS magazine , 1993/3 page 32

Web links

• European Youth Championships (accessed January 7, 2016)
• Emilia Ciosu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed February 7, 2012)