Maria Pădurariu

Maria Pădurariu (born October 5, 1970 in Negreşti , Vaslui County ) is a former Romanian rower who won the 1992 Olympic medal in eighth .

Athletic career

At the 1991 World Championships in Vienna, the Romanian eighth in the line-up Veronica Cochela , Doina Robu , Adriana Bazon , Viorica Neculai , Iulia Bobeică , Doina Snep , Maria Pădurariu, Mărioara Curelea and helmsman Elena Georgescu won the bronze medal behind the boats from Canada and from the boats Soviet Union. The Romanians were five seconds behind the runner-up and half a second ahead of the fourth-placed boat from the United States.

The following year at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Maria Pădurariu competed in two boat classes. The Romanian four-man without a helmsman with Victoria Lepădatu , Iulia Bobeică, Adriana Bazon and Maria Pădurariu took third place in the preliminary run and second place in the hope run. In the final, the Romanians crossed the finish line in fifth place, five seconds behind the third-placed Germans. The eighth with Doina Snep, Doina Robu, Ioana Olteanu , Viorica Lepădatu, Iulia Bobeică, Viorica Neculai, Maria Pădurariu, Adriana Bazon and Elena Georgescu also took third place in the preliminary run and won the hope run. In the final, the Romanians crossed the finish line three and a half seconds behind the Canadians and one and a half seconds ahead of the third-placed Germans.

In 1993 Viorica Neculai, Ioana Olteanu, Maria Pădurariu and Constanța Pipota took part in a double foursome at the Universiade in Buffalo and won by over ten seconds.

Web links

• Maria Padurariu in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Maria Pădurariu at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )

Footnotes

1. ↑ eighth final at the World Cup in 1991 at worldrowing.com
2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . Pp. 508 to 510
3. ↑ Rowing at the Universiade 1993 in the web.archive