Ioana Rotaru

Ioana Rotaru
Full name	Ioana Cristina Rotaru
nation	Romania
birthday	4th January 1984
place of birth	Câmpulung Moldovenesc ,  Romania
size	183 cm
Weight	79 kg
Career
discipline	rowing
society	Marina CSS
status	resigned
End of career	2012
Medal table
Olympic rowing regatta 1 × 0 × 1 × Rowing World Championships 0 × 2 × 0 × European Rowing Championships 3 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 2008 Beijing Eighth gold 2004 Athens Eighth  World championships silver 2007 Munich Eighth silver 2005 Gifu Eighth  Junior World Championships gold 2002 Trakai Two without a helmsman silver 2001 Duisburg Two without a helmsman gold 2001 Duisburg Eighth gold 2000 Zagreb Eighth bronze 1999 Plovdiv Double scull  European championships gold 2012 Varese Eighth gold 2008 Athens Eighth gold 2007 Poznan Eighth
Last change: November 6, 2014

Ioana Cristina Rotaru (born January 4, 1984 in Câmpulung Moldovenesc , Romania ; birth name Ioana Cristina Papuc ) is a former Romanian rower . She was Olympic champion in 2004 and is three times European champion .

Career

Rotaru celebrated its first international successes under her maiden name Papuc between 1999 and 2002 when she won five medals at the junior world championships. As a 17-year-old she was also used at the World Championships in Lucerne , where she took seventh place in the four without a helmsman . Then she aspired to the successful Romanian women's eighth and finished there in 2002 4th place. In the following year, however, she could not place eighth, instead she started in the double fours and finished 10th. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she returned to back eighth and won the gold medal together with Rodica Șerban , Viorica Susanu , Aurica Bărăscu , Liliana Gafencu , Elisabeta Lipă , Georgeta Andrunache , Doina Ignat and helmsman Elena Georgescu .

After the games, many of the very successful Romanian rowers of the Goldachters ended their careers, since apart from Rotaru and Șerban they had already been active in rowing for many years. Rotaru was therefore consistently in the Romanian eighth in the following years, and won silver medals at the World Championships in 2005 and 2007 . At the same time, she started in a further boat class at the World Championships in 2006 and 2007, which is usually only done by very strong rowers. At the 2008 Summer Olympics , Rotaru fully concentrated on eighth and won the bronze medal in Beijing behind the USA and the Netherlands. In addition, she achieved two successes with eighth at the newly introduced European Rowing Championships in 2007 and 2008 .

Rotaru ended her international rowing career with the bronze medal from Beijing. However, in 2012 for the next Olympic Games she appeared again and qualified directly for the Romanian women's eighth. He had meanwhile won some World Cup medals and all European Championships since 2007, but could only take fourth place with Rotaru in London. When the Romanian eighth in Varese won the European Championship in 2012 , Rotaru was involved again.

Rotaru started for the Marina CSS association . At a height of 1.83 m, she had a competition weight of 79 kg.

Web links

• Ioana Rotaru at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Ioana Rotaru in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )