Viorica Susanu

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Viorica Susanu (2012)

Viorica Susanu (born October 29, 1975 in Galați ) is a Romanian rower . With four Olympic gold medals, she is one of the most successful rowers.

She studied sport at the University of George Bacovia Bacau . Susanu moved to the Romanian eighth after her Olympic victory in 1996 and won gold with eighth at the World Rowing Championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999. At the 2000 Olympic Games , Susanu won her first Olympic gold medal with eighth place, with Georgeta Damian , Viorica Susanu, Ioana Olteanu , Veronica Cochela , Elisabeta Lipă , Maria Magdalena Dumitrache , Liliana Gafencu , Doina Ignat and taxwoman Elena Georgescu .

In the next few years the Romanian eighth lost its dominant position, in 2001 and 2003 Susanu won silver with the eighth, 2002 the eighth failed to win a medal. From 2001 Susanu rowed together with Georgeta Damian-Andrunache in twos without a helmsman and won the world championship title here in 2001 and 2002, and in 2003 the boat came third at the world championships. At the 2004 Olympic Games, however, the Romanian rowers were in top form again. Damian and Susanu won gold in the two without and the eighth also took first place, for the third time in a row.

Damian-Andrunache and Susanu could not win a medal in the two without in 2005 and 2006, at the rowing world championships in 2007 in Munich they both won bronze. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, they rowed the gold medal in two without a helmsman in front of the Chinese and Belarusians. The following day Susanu also won a bronze medal in eighth place together with Enikő Barabás , Constanța Burcică , Doina Ignat , Simona Mușat , Ioana Papuc , Rodica Șerban , Viorica Susanu and Elena Georgescu .

After a three-year break, Susanu returned to the regatta course in 2012 and together with Georgeta Andrunescu took third place at the World Cup in Munich. At the Olympic Games in London, the two finished fifth.

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SURNAME Susanu, Viorica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian rower
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Galați