Nadia Comaneci (ROM)
1976 Olympic AA Champion
1975-1977-1979
European AA Champion
1978 World B Champion
1980 Olympic B and FX Champion
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Medal Total
- Olympic Games: 5 Gold, 3
Silver, 1 Bronze
- World Championships: 2
Gold, 2 Silver
- World Cup: 2 Gold, 1
Silver
- European Championships: 9
Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze
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Nadia was born on November 12,
1961 in Onesti. Trainers Bela and Marta Karolyi coached her to Olympic gold
and world fame. Comaneci is the only woman to win the European AA title
three times. She was also the first female gymnast to receive a score of 10.00 in an
Olympics, and is the youngest Olympic AA champion. Her last competition
was the 1981 University Games, where she won 5 gold medals.
After
retiring, she coached the Romanian junior national team for a while. Since
she was not allowed to leave the country, Comaneci decided to defect in 1989. She
came to the US and eventually hooked up with Bart Conner (she and Conner were
the winners of the very first American Cup competition in 1976). They
married in an elaborate wedding in Bucharest in 1996.
Today, Nadia and
Bart own a gymnastics club in Norman, OK, are editors of International
Gymnast magazine, and are involved in numerous charitable organizations.
Their son, Dylan, was born in July 2006.
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- Competition Results
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- 1971
- Championships of the Republic, Category III: 1st Team,
4th AA
- Cup of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation (Category IV): 1st
AA, 1st V, 1st UB, 1st B, 1st FX
- Jr. ROM-YUG Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
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- 1972
- Championships of the Republic, Category III: 1st Team,
2nd AA
- Championships of the Republic for Juniors: 1st Team,
1st AA
- Cup of the ROM Gymnastics Federation (Category II): 1st
Team
- Jr. BUL-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st UB, 1st FX, 2nd AA
Jr. Friendship Tournament (Druzhba): 4th Team, 1st UB, 1st B, 6th V
- Jr. ROM-GDR Dual Meet: 1st Team, 3rd AA
- Jr. ROM-RSFSR Dual Meet: 1st AA
- Jr. ROM-HUN Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
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- 1973
- International Championships of Romania: 1st AA, 1st V,
1st UB, 1st B, 1st FX
Jr. Friendship Tournament (Druzhba): 3rd Team, 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB,
3rd FX
- Jr. ITA-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
Jr. ROM-URS Dual Meet: 2nd Team, 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB, 1st FX
- Romanian Sr. Team Championships: 1st Team, 1st AA
- Romanian Schools Championships (Senior Category): 3rd AA
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- 1974
- Jr. Romanian Championships: 1st AA
Jr. ROM-POL-Denver (USA) Tri-Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
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- 1975
- Champions All: 1st AA
- European Championships: 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB,
1st B, 2nd FX
- FRG-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
Pre-Olympics: 1st AA, 1st UB, 2nd V, 2nd FX, 3rd B
- Romanian Championships: 1st Team, 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB, 1st
B, 2nd FX
ROM-CAN Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
ROM-ITA Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
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- 1976
- American Cup: 1st AA
- Balkan Championships: 1st Team, 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB, 1st B, 1st FX
- CAN-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
- Chunichi Cup: 1st AA
- FRG-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
- GBR-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
- NED-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
- Olympic Games: 2nd Team, 1st AA, 1st UB, 1st B,
3rd FX, 4th V
- Romanian Championships: 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB, 1st B, 2nd FX
- USA-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
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- 1977
- Balkan Championships: 1st Team, 1st AA
ESP-ROM Dual Meet (Barcelona): 1st Team, 1st AA
ESP-ROM Dual Meet (Madrid): 1st Team, 1st AA
- European Championships: 1st AA, 1st UB, 2nd V
- FRA-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
- International Championships of Romania: 1st AA, 1st UB, 1st B, 1st FX
- Orleans International: 1st AA
- ROM-CAN Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
USA-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
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- 1978
- ITA-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
- Milan International: 1st AA
World Championships (Strasbourg): 2nd Team, 1st
B, 2nd V, 5th UB, 8th FX
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- 1979
- Balkan Championships: 1st Team, 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB,
2nd FX
- Champions All: 1st AA
- European Championships: 1st AA, 1st V, 1st FX,
3rd B, 4th UB
- International Championships of Romania: 1st AA, 1st UB
- World Championships (Ft. Worth): 1st Team
- World Cup: 4th AA, 1st V, 1st FX, 2nd B
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- 1980
- International Championships of Romania: 1st AA, 1st UB
- ITA-ROM Dual Meet: 1st Team, 1st AA
- Olympic Games: 2nd Team, 2nd AA, 1st B, 1st FX,
5th V
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- 1981
- Daciada: 1st AA
University Games: 1st Team, 1st AA, 1st V, 1st UB, 1st
B
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