Simona Mușat

Simona Mușat
Full name	Simona Dumitrița Mușat
nation	Romania
birthday	September 16, 1981
place of birth	Botoșani ,  Romania
size	183 cm
Weight	80 kg
Career
discipline	rowing
society	Botoșani CS, Dinamo Bucharest CS
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
Olympic rowing regatta 0 × 0 × 1 × Rowing World Championships 0 × 2 × 0 × European Rowing Championships 2 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games bronze 2008 Beijing Eighth  World championships silver 2007 Munich Eighth silver 2005 Gifu Eighth  U23 world championships gold 2003 Belgrade Double fours silver 2001 Linz Two without a helmsman bronze 2000 Copenhagen Foursome without a helmsman  Junior World Championships silver 1999 Plovdiv Double fours gold 1998 Linz Double fours  European championships gold 2008 Athens Eighth gold 2007 Poznan Eighth
Last change: November 6, 2014

Simona Dumitrița Mușat (born September 16, 1981 in Botoșani , Romania ; maiden name Simona Dumitrița Strimbeschi ) is a former Romanian rower . She is a two-time European champion and an Olympian for Romania.

Career

Mușat achieved their first international successes under their birth name Strimbeschi when they took part in the World Junior Championships in 1998 and 1999, winning a gold and a silver medal in the quadruple sculls . She then rowed for a few years in the U23 area and won three other medals at the year-old world championships in various oar boats . In the run-up to the 2004 Summer Olympics , however, she did not succeed in making the leap into the open-top boat with a strap, as many very successful rowers were already competing for the starting places in the boats. In the sculled double scull she took part in the 2003 World Rowing Championships and finished 10th, and in the following year she qualified for the double scull in Athens. With Camelia Mihalcea , she finished fifth in the Olympic final.

After the Athens Games, many of the rowers from the Olympic gold eighth ended their careers, and Mușat, like some other young rowers, was able to establish herself in the eighth. At the rowing world championships in 2005 she won the silver medal in this boat class and also started in a pair without a helmsman with Rodica Șerban (4th place). In 2006 the eighth was not powerful and finished 6th at the world championships . In the following year, Mușat was able to start twice again and achieve another World Cup silver medal in eighth and fourth place in the double scull (with Ioana Rotaru ). In the same year, the Romanian women's eight with Mușat on board achieved the first of numerous victories at the newly introduced European Rowing Championships . The team was able to repeat this success in 2008 when Mușat continued to belong to the team. In her second Olympic start at the Beijing Games , she won the bronze medal behind the USA and the Netherlands, and then ended her international career.

Mușat started for the clubs Botoșani CS and Dinamo Bucharest CS . At a height of 1.83 m, her competition weight was around 80 kg.

Web links

• Simona Mușat at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Simona Mușat in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )