Florentina Iușco
Florentina Iușco 
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| Full name | Florentina Costina Iușco | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| birthday | 8th April 1996 (age 24) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Deva , Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Long jump | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Best performance | 6.92 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| society | CN Sp. Cetate Deva | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Trainer | Nikolai Alekse | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National squad | since 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Florentina Costina Iușco , born Florentina Costina Marincu (born April 8, 1996 in Deva ), is a Romanian athlete who specializes in the long jump . She is also a former bobsledder .
Career
Career as a track and field athlete
Florentina Iușco competed in her first international competition at the age of 16 at the 2013 European Indoor Championships in Gothenburg . There she retired with 5.98 m in qualification. At the Youth World Championships in Donetsk , she won the gold medal in both the long jump and the triple jump. In addition, she took fifth place with the Romanian sprint relay at the European Team Championship in Dublin . At the Junior European Championships in Rieti , she was eliminated in the long jump qualification and took fourth place in the triple jump. After major leaps in development in 2014, Iușco improved in the long jump to 6.71 m. In 2015 she took part in the European Indoor Championships in Prague , where she won the bronze medal. In the final she improved Heike Drechsler's European junior record to 6.79 m. At the Junior European Championships in Eskilstuna , she won the gold medal with a wind-assisted 6.78 m. In the triple jump she only had to admit defeat to two Russians and won the bronze medal 13.08 m. At the World Championships in Beijing , she was eliminated from qualifying without a valid attempt. In autumn she also won the gold medal at the Balkan Championships in the long jump.
In 2017 she tried her hand at bobsleigh and immediately became Junior World Champion in 2018 with pilot Andreea Grecu .
In 2018 she returned to athletics and qualified for the European Championships in Berlin , where she was eliminated with 6.17 m in qualification. The following year she was eighth at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow with 6.49 m and sixth at the European Games in Minsk with 6.44 m. Then she won the bronze medal at the Summer Universiade in Naples with 6.55 m behind the Ukrainian Maryna Bech-Romantschuk and Evelise Veiga from Portugal.
In 2019 Iușco was Romanian champion in the long jump outdoors and 2015 in the hall. In 2014 and 2015 she was also the indoor champion in the 60-meter run .
On February 15, 2020, she started in the Ataköy Athletics Arena in Istanbul at the Balkan Indoor Championships 2020 and secured the gold medal in the long jump with a width of 6.53 meters ahead of Milena Mitkowa from Bulgaria and Milica Gardašević from Serbia. On February 29, 2020, she started in Bucharest at the Romanian indoor championships and secured the championship title in the long jump with a width of 6.27 meters. The day before, she was also active in the 60-meter run and was eliminated in the semifinals.
Career as a bobsledder
For the 2017/18 Olympic season, Florentina Costina Iușco switched to bobsleigh and joined the Romanian bobsleigh team as a pusher. She completed her first international competition on November 9, 2017 as Maria Adela Constantin's pusher at the Bobsleigh World Cup in Lake Placid and the two finished 14th. On December 1 and 2, she started as Maria Adela Constantin's pusher in the European Cup , which forms the basis of the World Cup in Europe . In the two competitions in Königssee they took third place behind the Austrian bobsleigh by Kathrin Beierl and the German bobsleigh by Christin Senkel .
At the Bobsleigh European Cup competition in La Plagne , which took place on December 15, 2017, she and Maria Adela Constantin came second behind Christin Senkel's bobsleigh and Laura Nolte's bobsleigh , thus achieving her best career result in the European Cup . She achieved her best result in the World Cup on January 13, 2018 together with Maria Adela Constantin when the two finished twelfth in St. Moritz . At the World Cup in Königssee , she started not only pushing Maria Adela Constantin in the two-man bobsleigh, but also in the four-man bobsleigh. In addition to her, Beatrice Puiu and Teodora Andreea Vlad were active pushers in the four-man bobsleigh . Together they finished 24th and last place.
On January 27, 2018, she started together with Andreea Grecu at the Junior World Championships in St. Moritz and both of them were able to become Junior World Champions ahead of the two German bobsleighs by Laura Nolte and Kim Kalicki . Although qualified Maria Adela Constantin for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang . But not Florentina Costina Iușco was nominated to push her bob, but Andrea Grecu. After just one season in bobsleigh, Florentina Costina Iușco ended her career and turned her focus back to athletics.
Personal best
open air
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100-meter run : 11.55 s (+0.7 m / s), July 26, 2018 in Piteşti
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Long jump : 6.92 m (+1.8 m / s), July 31, 2019 Pitești
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Triple jump : 13.81 m (−2.4 m / s), August 3, 2013 in Edirne
Hall
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60-meter run : 7.40 s, February 15, 2014 in Bucharest
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Long jump : 6.79 m, March 7, 2015 in Prague ( European junior record )
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Triple jump : 13.34 m, February 1, 2014 in Bucharest
Private
After their wedding, she took the name Iușco .
Web links
- Florentina Iusco in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Florentina Iușco in the database of the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation
Individual evidence
- ^ Phil Minshull: Double Donetsk champion Marincu dreaming of emulating Romanian great Cusmir-Stanciu. World Athletics , June 14, 2013, accessed March 15, 2020 .
- ↑ a b U18 world champion strengthens Romanian bobsleigh women. International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation , October 28, 2017, accessed on March 15, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Winterberg bobsleigh juniors clear at the World Cup. Westfalenpost , January 28, 2018, accessed on March 15, 2020 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Iușco, Florentina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marincu, Florentina Costina (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian long and triple jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Deva , Romania |