Marian Drăgulescu

Marian Drăgulescu
Personal information
Nationality:	Romania
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Society:	CSA Steaua Bucuresti
Birthday:	December 18, 1980
Place of birth:	Bucharest
Size:	163 cm
Weight:	64 kg
Medals
Olympic games silver 2004 Athens ground bronze 2004 Athens Leap bronze 2004 Athens Team all-around  World championships gold 2001 Ghent ground gold 2001 Ghent Leap gold 2002 Debrecen ground silver 2003 Anaheim Leap gold 2005 Melbourne Leap gold 2006 Aarhus ground gold 2006 Aarhus Leap gold 2009 London ground gold 2009 London Leap silver 2015 Glasgow Leap  European championships gold 2000 Bremen ground silver 2000 Bremen team bronze 2000 Bremen All-around gold 2002 Patras team gold 2002 Patras Leap bronze 2002 Patras ground gold 2004 Ljubljana team gold 2004 Ljubljana All-around gold 2004 Ljubljana ground gold 2004 Ljubljana Leap gold 2005 Debrecen ground gold 2006 Volos Leap silver 2006 Volos team silver 2006 Volos ground silver 2016 Bern ground silver 2016 Bern Leap

Marian Drăgulescu (born December 18, 1980 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian gymnast and member of the Romanian national team. At the 2004 European Championships, he won four gold medals. At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , he was able to win one silver and two bronze medals.

The hand restraint rollover followed by a forward double somersault with a half- turn in the horse vault was named after him because he was the first gymnast to demonstrate this element at an international competition.

Another success was winning two gold medals at the 2006 World Gymnastics Championships in Aarhus , which he won on the floor and jump. Shortly before the World Championships in Stuttgart (2007) he injured himself and was replaced in the Romanian team by Cosmin Malița .

At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , he was able to convince with strong performances in the qualifying competitions, but was victim of his nervous weakness in the finals and thereupon announced his temporary retirement from competitive sports.

Before the 2009 World Gymnastics Championships in London , he surprised the press with the announcement of a comeback that turned out to be successful for him, winning two gold medals on jump and floor. Both Drăgulescu and the Romanian Gymnastics Federation failed to report Drăgulescu back to the FIG anti-doping program in the course of this comeback and thus evaded possible doping controls. The FIG then warned Drăgulescu in August 2010 and threatened him with a two-year ban if he did so again.

Awards

• Order of loyalty to the officer rank 2017

Web links

Commons : Marian Drăgulescu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marian Drăgulescu in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Marian Drăgulescu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Athlete portrait of Marian Drăgulescu at romanian-gymnastics.com
• Drăgulescu (Flash animation of the element) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GYMmedia.de: Fatal negligence: Marian Dragulescu warned! ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . As of September 1, 2010. 
2. ↑ Catalina Ponor, Larisa Iordache si Marian Dragulescu, decorati de presedintele Romaniei COSR September 27, 2017