Larisa Iordache
Larisa Iordache 
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| Surname: | Larisa Andreea Iordache | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality: |
 Romania
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| discipline | Apparatus gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birthday: | 19th June 1996 (age 24) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | Bucharest | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 150 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Larisa Andreea Iordache ( / laˈrisa andˈreja jorˈdake / ; born June 19, 1996 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian gymnast .
Career
At the European Championships in Brussels in 2012 , she won gold on the floor and in the team competition and silver on the beam.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, she achieved the bronze medal behind the Olympic champions from the USA and the second-placed Russians in the team competition with the Romanian women's squad.
At the European Gymnastics Championships in Moscow in 2013 , the then 16-year-old Romanian won the most medals with a gold, a silver and a bronze medal.
At the 2014 European Gymnastics Championships in Sofia in May , she again won the most medals for women with two gold, one silver and one bronze medal.
At the 2017 World Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, she sustained an injury to the Achilles tendon on her left foot and subsequently had to be operated on three times. She was unable to take up any more training until February 2019.
Awards
- 2012 - 2nd place Piotr Nurowski Prize
Web links
- Larisa Iordache in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Larisa Iordache in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Larisa Iordache: Question settled? ( English ) Examiner.com . July 27, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
- ↑ Doubts over Romania's Iordache ( English ) Agence France-Presse . July 26, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
- ↑ Twenty Gymnasts to Watch in the Women's All-Around and Event Finals ( English ) TIME . August 1, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
- ↑ Women's gymnastics team of Romania won the bronze medals in London ( English ) EMBASSY OF ROMANIA to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
- ↑ Olympics 2012: Romania's women gymnastics team won the bronze medal in London ( English ) SC Antena 3 SA. August 1, 2012. Retrieved August 19, 2012.
- ↑ Larisa Iordache - INJURIES (accessed December 28, 2019)
- ↑ Gymnast Larisa Iordache takes second place in Piotr Nurowski Award event (November 12, 2012)
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| SURNAME | Iordache, Larisa |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Iordache, Larisa Andreea |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian gymnast |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1996 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest , Romania |