Maria Nichiforov

Maria Nichiforov , after marrying Maria Mihoreanu , (born April 9, 1951 in Mila 23 , Tulcea County ) is a former Romanian canoeist .

Maria Nichiforov competed in both Olympic women's disciplines at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . In the single kayak , she took sixth place in the final. An hour and a half later, she went into a two-person kayak with Viorica Dumitru . The two Romanians took third place behind the boats from the Soviet Union and the GDR and received the bronze medal 0.11 seconds ahead of the Hungarians.

The following year she won bronze in the non-Olympic four-person kayak at the 1973 World Championships in Tampere. Together with Viorica Dumitru, Maria Cosma and Maria Ivanov reached the finish behind the four-person kayak from the Soviet Union and the Hungarians. In 1974 at the World Championships in Mexico City, Dumitru and Nichiforov won the silver medal in two behind the boat from the GDR. The four with Dumitru, Nichiforov, Cosma and Agafia Orlov won bronze behind the boats from the GDR and the Soviet Union. After her marriage in 1975 in Belgrade , she took up the role of Maria Mihoreanu. In the one, she won the bronze medal behind Anke Ohde from the GDR and Galina Kreft from the Soviet Union.

Maria Mihoreanu is the sister-in-law of Maria Cosma, who became Olympic champion in 1984 under the name Maria Ștefan.

Web links

Maria Nichiforov in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Footnotes

↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 345f
↑ The world championship results on Sport-Complete
↑ According to the Olympic database SportsReference, Maria Ștefan was fifth in the 1976 Olympics. Volker Kluge says in his Chronicle III on page 652 in note 530 that Maria Nichiforov, as Maria Mihoreanu, was fifth in the 1976 Olympics. It is possible that the sisters-in-law were both named Maria Mihoreanu in 1976.

personal data
SURNAME	Nichiforov, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mihoreanu, Maria (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian canoeist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 9, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mila 23 , Tulcea County

[1] Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle III. Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 . P. 345f

[2] The world championship results on Sport-Complete

[3] According to the Olympic database SportsReference, Maria Ștefan was fifth in the 1976 Olympics. Volker Kluge says in his Chronicle III on page 652 in note 530 that Maria Nichiforov, as Maria Mihoreanu, was fifth in the 1976 Olympics. It is possible that the sisters-in-law were both named Maria Mihoreanu in 1976.