Nicoleta Grasu

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Nicoleta Grasu 2012
Nicoleta Grasu 2012

Discus thrower

RomaniaRomania 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Clasa I, a II-a, a III-a - Președintele României. (XLS; 152 kB) p. 3 , accessed on January 16, 2011 (Romanian).

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personal data
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