Viorica Neculai

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Viorica Ilica in the 1980s

Viorica Neculai , until 1989 Viorica Ilica , (born February 6, 1967 in Vorniceni , Botoșani district ) is a former Romanian rower who won two Olympic medals.

The 1.77 m wide Viorica Ilica won at the Junior World Championships title in 1985 quadruple sculls .

At the Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 , she won with the Romanian eighth in the heat. Livia Țicanu and Viorica Ilica were replaced in the final by the Olympic champions in two without helmsman Olga Homeghi and Rodica Arba , the Romanian eighth won the silver medal behind the boat from the GDR. Țicanu and Ilica also received a silver medal for their work in the preliminary stages. In 1989 Ilica competed in two boat classes at the World Championships in Bled . Together with Marioara Traşcă , Mihaela Armăşescu and Livia Leonte , she won the bronze medal in the foursome without a helmsman . These four rowers were also part of the Romanian eighth who won the title in front of the boat from the GDR.

After a break from competition in 1990 she started as Viorica Neculai in 1991, at the World Championships in Vienna she took fifth place in the two-man category without a helmsman , with eighth she won the bronze medal behind the boats from Canada and the USSR. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992 Neculai only finished eighth, this time she started in the preliminary, in the repechage and in the final. The Romanians won the silver medal behind the Canadians. At the 1993 World Championships , Neculai won her second world title in eighth place, with the four-man without a helmsman she finished fifth.

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  1. Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV.Soul 1988 - Atlanta 1996 . Sportverlag Berlin 2002 ISBN 3-328-00830-6 p. 186
  2. World championships in a four-man without helmsman on sport-complete (Ilica is listed here)
  3. World Championships in figure eight on sport-complete (Ilica is also listed here)
  4. According to the FISA database . According to the Olympic database Sports-Reference, not Viorica Neculai, but Veronica Necula was present at the 1992 Olympic Games. But this is probably a mix-up because, unlike Neculai, Necula did not start internationally after 1988. See also: Veronica Necula in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ), accessed on September 21, 2018.