Nadia Comăneci

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Nadia Comăneci, 2010
Nadia Comăneci, 1976

Nadia Elena Comăneci [ koməˈnetʃʲ ] ( pronunciation ? / I ; born November 12, 1961 in Oneşti ) is a former gymnast and the most successful Romanian athlete at the Olympic Games to date . She is considered one of the best gymnasts of all time. At the Olympic Games in 1976 and 1980 she won a total of five gold, three silver and one bronze medal. She also won two gold medals at world championships, nine gold medals at European championships and five gold medals at the Universiaden . Audio file / audio sample

life and career

For the first time she drew attention to herself under the Hungarian-born coach Béla Károlyi at the European Championships in 1975 with a total of four wins. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal on July 18, at the age of 14, she was the first gymnast ever to receive a 10.0 on the uneven bars , which was also the first time that a perfect 10 was achieved in gymnastics. The grade was shown on the scoreboard as 1.00 because the boards could not display a two-digit grade: the maximum grade of 10.0 was previously considered unattainable. Comăneci also won gold on the balance beam and in the all-around , silver with the team and bronze on the floor . That same year she was with the athletes of the Year award from the Associated Press honored and European Athlete of the Year chosen. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , she won gold on the balance beam and on the ground as well as silver in the all-around competition and with the team. The following year Comăneci announced her retirement from competitive sports.

At the end of November 1989, shortly before the Romanian Revolution , Comăneci fled to the USA via Hungary and Austria . In 1996 she married the former American gymnast Bart Conner in Bucharest . The couple met at the 1976 American Cup , which they both won. They own the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy and several sports shops and are the publisher of International Gymnast magazine . In addition, both are involved in charitable causes.

The couple has one son, Dylan Paul Conner (born June 3, 2006) and lives in Norman , Oklahoma . In 2001 Comăneci became a US citizen.

In 1984 her life was filmed for television under the title Nadia . In 2014 a fictional novel by Lola Lafon about Comăneci's life was published under the title The Little Communist Who Never Smiled . In 1993 she was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame as the second gymnast after Olga Korbut .

Publications

literature

  • Stejărel Olaru: Nadia și Securitatea (Nadja and the Securitate), Epica Verlag, Bucharest 2021, ISBN 978-606-95197-0-7 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HUNGARY: Among brothers . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 1988 ( online - Feb. 29, 1988 ).
  2. ↑ www.jurnalul.ro ( Memento of January 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (in Romanian)
  3. ^ First perfect 10 awarded in Olympic gymnastics. Retrieved June 5, 2021 (German).
  4. ↑ The most muscular, material girl the world has ever known
  5. ↑ Nadia Comaneci, the dream woman of gymnastics
  6. ↑ GYMmedia.com: Baby boy arrives for Comaneci, Conner , accessed June 14, 2021.
  7. ↑ Review of the novel: The Little Communist Who Never Smiled / An Impossibility Called Nadia.


personal data
SURNAME Comăneci, Nadia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comăneci, Nadia Elena (full name)
SHORT DESCRIPTION Romanian gymnast
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Onești , Romania