Gymnasts from Romania obtained 4 medals at the
\nEuropean Gymnastics Championships that took place in the Transylvanian city of
\nCluj Napoca over April 19th and 23rd. They were
\noutperformed only by Russia, while Ukraine finished third in the rankings. This
\ncompetition, the second to be hosted by Romania after 60 years, brought
\ntogether 274 gymnasts from 37 countries, as well as 450 coaches, medical staff,
\nreferees and other officials. <\/p>\n
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Two gold medals were won for Romania by veteran
\ngymnast Marian Dragulescu in the floor contest and Catalina Ponor in the beam
\nevent. Marian also became silver medallist in the vault event, while Larisa
\nIordache stepped onto the third step of the podium in the beam competition.
\nShortly after his win Dragulescu said he was proud of becoming the Romanian
\ngymnast with the largest number of medals of all time, with 31 medals. <\/p>\n
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At almost 37 years of age, Dragulescu admitted
\nthe medal in the floor event was the most sought after in his career because he
\nwon it right in front of a Romanian public. We recall that Marian Dragulescu
\nhas won three Olympic medals (one silver and two bronze), ten medals in World
\nChampionships (eight gold and two silver) and 18 in European Championships (ten
\ngold, six silver and two bronze). This remarkable gymnast only lacks the
\nOlympic gold. <\/p>\n
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At the age of 29, Catalina Ponor won the
\nEuropean title for the fifth time in the beam contest, breaking her own record
\nof four continental wins. She has again obtained international acclaim in the
\nbeam competition, thirteen years from her first victory in Amsterdam. She had
\nalso qualified for the floor contest in Cluj but failed to make it to the
\ncompetition’s next stage as her show lacked a compulsory element. <\/p>\n
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Injuries forced 20-year-old Larisa Iordache to
\ncompete only in two apparatuses and it was also medical issues that had kept her
\noff competitions in the past years. She failed to attend two editions of the
\nEuropean championships in 2015 and 2016 as well as the Olympics in Rio in 2016,
\nwhere Romania’s gymnastics team failed to qualify for the first time since the
\n1968 edition in Mexico. Larisa’s latest performance was at the European
\nChampionships in 2014 where she won three medals: gold in the floor event,
\nsilver in the beam and bronze in the vault contest. <\/p>\n
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\nWe recall that at the last year’s edition of the
\nEuropean Gymnastics Championships hosted by the Swiss city of Bern, Marian
\nDragulescu won two silver medals for Romania in the floor and vault events,
\nwhile Catalina Ponor became bronze medallist in the floor and beam contests. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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