Lucia Sauca

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Lucia Sauca in the 1980s

Lucia Sauca , after marriage to Lucia Toader , (born September 30, 1963 in Coroieşti , Vaslui district ; † December 2013 ) was a Romanian rower who won an Olympic medal and two world championships.

The 1.79 m tall rower competed under her maiden name Lucia Sauca until 1984, then as Lucia Toader.

Athletic career

At the world championships in 1983 in Duisburg, the boat from the Soviet Union won in the eighth ahead of the boats from the United States, the GDR and Canada. The Romanian eighth with Olguta Onofrei , Ioana Badea , Camelia Diaconescu , Lucia Sauca, M. Gligor, Anișoara Sorohan , Aurora Pleșca , Mihaela Armășescu and helmsman Elena Nedelcu took fifth place ahead of the Bulgarians.

Because of the Olympic boycott of the Warsaw Pact states, of the six eights from the 1983 World Cup final, only the USA, Canada and Romania competed in the 1984 Olympic Games . There were also boats from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. Since only six boats entered, there were no preliminary runs. The eighth from the United States won by one second over the Romanians and two seconds behind the Dutch women. Doina Bălan , Marioara Traşcă , Aurora Pleşca, Aneta Mihaly , Adriana Bazon , Mihaela Armăşescu, Camelia Diaconescu, Lucia Sauca and helmswoman Viorica Ioja sat in the Romanian eighth .

At the 1985 World Championships in Hazewinkel , the eighth from the Soviet Union won ahead of the boat from the GDR and the Romanians, who were four and a half seconds behind the boat from the GDR, but won the bronze medal 0.3 seconds ahead of the US eighth. The crew consisted of Doina Bălan, Marioara Traşcă, Livia Țicanu , Mihaela Armăşescu, Adriana Bazon, Carolina Matei , Camelia Diaconescu, Lucia Toader and helmsman Ecaterina Oancia .

In 1986 Toader competed in a foursome with a helmsman . Together with Doina Bălan, Marioara Traşcă, Chira Stoean and helmsman Viorica Ioja, she won the title at the World Championships in Nottingham with four and a half seconds ahead of the boat from the GDR. Toader rowed her last major success in eighth place at the 1987 World Championships in Copenhagen . Valentina Virlan , Marioara Traşcă, Livia Țicanu, Rodica Arba , Adriana Bazon, Veronica Necula , Olga Homeghi , Lucia Toader and taxwoman Ecaterina Oancia won with a one and a half second lead over the eighth from the United States. It was the first world title in eighth for Romania, after the GDR had won three times and the Soviet Union seven times.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Entry at the Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român
  2. ↑ At least she has been listed as Lucia Toader at worldrowing.com since 1985.
  3. ↑ eight finals in 1983 at worldrowing.com
  4. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 1020f
  5. ↑ aft final 1985 at worldrowing.com
  6. ↑ Fourfinal 1986 at worldrowing.com
  7. ↑ aft final 1987 at worldrowing.com
  8. ↑ World champion in figure eight at sport-komplett.de
personal data
SURNAME Sauca, Lucia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toader, Lucia (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian rower
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Coroieşti , Vaslui County
DATE OF DEATH December 2013