Nicoleta Grasu
Nicoleta Grasu medal table |
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Nicoleta Grasu 2012 |
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Romania | ||
World championships | ||
bronze | 1999 Seville | 65.35 m |
silver | 2001 Edmonton | 66.24 m |
bronze | 2007 Osaka | 63.40 m |
bronze | 2009 Berlin | 65.20 m |
European championships | ||
bronze | 1998 Budapest | 65.94 m |
bronze | 2006 Gothenburg | 63.58 m |
silver | 2010 Barcelona | 63.48 m |
Nicoleta Lenuța Grasu , née Nicoleta Grădinaru , (born September 11, 1971 in Secuieni , Neamț County ) is a former Romanian discus thrower .
Career
At the World Athletics Championships in 1993 in Stuttgart she was seventh, at the European Championships in 1994 fourth, at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg she failed in qualifying and at the 1997 World Championships in Athens she was tenth. She first came on the podium at a major event when she won bronze at the 1998 European Championships . Another bronze medal followed at the 1999 World Championships in Seville. In 2000, she was eliminated from the qualification at the Olympic Games in Sydney , but came back to the bronze rank at the World Championships in Edmonton the following year , she subsequently moved from bronze to silver after the first-placed Natalja Sadowa was retroactively disqualified.
At the Olympic Games in Athens she was sixth and at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 she finished fifth; the following year she got bronze again at the European Championships in Gothenburg . At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka , she finished fourth, but moved up afterwards because the second, the Russian Darja Pishchalnikova , was disqualified for doping. After finishing only twelfth place at the Olympic Games in Beijing , Grasu won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin . At the 2010 European Championships in Barcelona , she threw the discus in the first attempt on 63.48 m and was thus in the lead until the last attempt, then the Croatian Sandra Perković exceeded her distance by over a meter and won gold before Grasu.
Her personal best of 68.80 m comes from 1999. She won 14 Romanian championship titles: 1992, 1993, 1995–1997, 1999–2002, 2004–2006, 2008 and 2009. In 2013, she ended her career.
Nicoleta Grasu is 1.76 m tall and has a competition weight of 88 kg. She is married to the 1992 Olympic gold medalist, discus thrower Costel Grasu , who was also her trainer.
Awards
In 2009 Nicoleta Grasu received the Order of Merit "Meritul sportiv" III from President Traian Băsescu . Class with a stripe.
literature
- Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2010. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2010, ISBN 978-1-899807-92-5 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Clasa I, a II-a, a III-a - Președintele României. (XLS; 152 kB) p. 3 , accessed on January 16, 2011 (Romanian).
Web links
- Nicoleta Grasu in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Nicoleta Grasu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Competition image
- a portrait on flickr
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Grasu, Nicoleta |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Grasu, Nicoleta Lenuța (full name); Grădinaru, Nicoleta (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian athlete |
DATE OF BIRTH | 11th September 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Secuieni , Neamț County |