Athlete of the Week on RRI – Gymnast Larisa Iordache

Last week the 7th gymnastics World Cup competition came to an end in Doha, totaling 50,000 dollars in prize money. Larisa Iordache had an outstanding performance, grabbing three gold medals, in the vault, floor and beam events. On the first day of the competition, Iordache grabbed gold in the vault event, with an average score of 14,337 points on her two jumps, outclassing Teja Belak of Slovenia, who ranked second with 14,100 points and Wong Hiu Angel of Hong Kong with 13,812 points.

Florin Orban, 01.04.2014, 13:54

Last week the 7th gymnastics World Cup competition came to an end in Doha, totaling 50,000 dollars in prize money. Larisa Iordache had an outstanding performance, grabbing three gold medals, in the vault, floor and beam events. On the first day of the competition, Iordache grabbed gold in the vault event, with an average score of 14,337 points on her two jumps, outclassing Teja Belak of Slovenia, who ranked second with 14,100 points and Wong Hiu Angel of Hong Kong with 13,812 points.

On the second day of the competition Larisa continued her good run. She prevailed in the floor finals with a score of 14,425 points, and was followed onto the podium by her colleague Diana Bulimar with 14,300 points and Isabela Onyshko of Canada with 13,725 points. In the beam finals, the judges gave Iordache a score of 14,850 points. Ranking second was Mary-Anne Monckton of Australia with 14,700 points, while Thi Ha Thanh Phan of Vietnam came in third with 13,875 points.

Apart from the silver medal in the floor finals, Diana Bulimar also ranked 4th in the beam event. In the men’s competition, Andrei Muntean finished the still rings event in 4th place.

For her remarkable achievement last week, we have designated Larisa Iordache Athlete of the Week on RRI.

Larisa Iordache was born in Bucharest on June 19, 1996. She took up gymnastics at the Cetate Sports High School in Deva. She joined Romania’s Olympic team, with which she has been training at a facility close to Bucharest. She made her international debut at the 2012 European Championships, where she grabbed three medals: gold in the floor event, gold with Romania’s team and silver in the beam event. At the 2012 London Olympics Iordache won bronze with Romania’s team. In 2013, at the Moscow European Championships, she won gold in the beam event and silver medals in the individual all-around, floor and vault events. Also in 2013, at the World Championships in Antwerp, she won bronze in the floor finals.