Laura Badea-Cârlescu

Laura Badea-Cârlescu medal table
Laura Badea (1995)
fencing
Romania
Olympic games
	1996 Atlanta	Foil single
	1996 Atlanta	Foil team
	1992 Barcelona	Foil team
World championships
gold	1994 Athens	Foil team
gold	1995 The Hague	Foil single
silver	1993 Essen	Foil team
silver	1995 The Hague	Foil team
silver	1997 Cape Town	Foil team
silver	1998 La Chaux-de-Fonds	Foil team
silver	2004 New York	Foil team
bronze	2002 Lisbon	Foil team
bronze	2003 Havana	Foil team
European championships
gold	1996 Limoges	Foil single
gold	1997 Gdansk	Foil single
gold	2004 Copenhagen	Foil single
gold	2004 Copenhagen	Foil team
silver	1994 Cracow	Foil single
silver	2002 Moscow	Foil single
bronze	1993 Vienna	Foil single
bronze	1999 Bolzano	Foil single

Laura Gabriela Badea-Cârlescu , until 1999 Laura Badea (born March 28, 1970 in Bucharest ) is a former Romanian fencer . She was Olympic and European champion in 1996, world champion the year before and 1994 world champion with the team. There are also three other European titles in 1997 and 2004. Their weapon was the foil . The only female fencing Olympic champion in her country to date is a member of the Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (COSR, Olympic Committee in Romania).

Athletic career

Badea first played handball and was interested in athletics all-around . At the age of 13 she started training in fencing. Badea began her international career at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , where she won a bronze medal with the team. 1993 followed silver at the world championship in Essen, then the gold medal in 1994 in Athens. A year later she became world fencing champion in The Hague and silver medalist with the team. In 1996 she was both European and Olympic champion in Atlanta , where she defeated the Italian Valentina Vezzali . Badea was the first Romanian to win a gold medal in fencing. In the team final Romania lost to the Italians and won silver. At the Summer Games in Sydney and Athens, she was fourth and fifth.

Single successes

• 1993 bronze EM Vienna
• 1994 silver EC Cracow
• 1995 Gold World Championship The Hague
• 1996 Gold Olympic Games Atlanta
• 1996 Gold EM Limoges
• 1997 Gold EM Danzig
• 1999 bronze EM Bozen
• 2002 silver EM Moscow
• 2004 Gold EM Copenhagen

Team successes

• 1992 bronze Olympic Games Barcelona
• 1993 silver WM Essen
• 1994 Gold World Championships Athens
• 1995 silver World Cup The Hague
• 1996 Silver Olympic Games Atlanta
• 1997 Silver World Cup Cape Town
• 1998 Silver World Championship La Chaux-de-Fonds
• 2002 bronze World Cup Lisbon
• 2003 Bronze World Cup Havana
• 2004 Silver World Championships New York
• 2004 Gold EM Copenhagen

Professional career

From 1988 to 2004 Badea served in the Romanian Army. She retired with the rank of colonel . To her 1995 sports diploma, she added another in sports management in 2007. In 2008 she received her doctorate with a thesis on sport fencing. Badea has been married to the saber fencer Adrian Cârlescu since 1999. They are parents of a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Laura Badea-Cârlescu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Laura Badea-Cârlescu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sports-reference: Laura Cârlescu-Badea. (accessed on April 5, 2018)