Nadia Comăneci

Nadia Elena Comăneci is a Romanian gymnast, the

first gymnast in the world to receive a grade of ten in an
Olympic gymnastics competition. She is the winner of five
Olympic gold medals. She is considered to be one of the
best sportswomen of the twentieth century and one of the
best gymnasts in the world, of all time, "Goddess of
Montreal", the first gymnast of the modern era who took 10
absolutely. He is the first Romanian athlete included in
the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame memorial.
Nadia was born in Onești, being the daughter of
Gheorghe and Ștefania-Alexandrina Comăneci was named
after "Nadejda" ("Hope"), the heroine of a movie. Some
sources claim that she was born "Anna Kemenes". This
variant was denied in November 2016 by both Nadia and her
mother, Stefania.He competed for the first time at
national level in Romania, in 1970, as a member of his
city's team. He soon began training with Béla Károlyi and
his wife, Márta Károlyi, who later emigrated to the United
States, becoming coaches for many American gymnasts. At
the age of 13, Comaneci's first major success was winning
three gold and one silver medal at the 1975 European
Championships in Skien, Norway. In the same year, the
Associated Press named her "Athlete of the Year." At the
age of 14, Comaneci became a star of the 1976 Summer
Olympics in Montreal, Quebec. Not only did she become the
first gymnast to achieve the perfect score of ten at the
Olympics (seven times), but she also won three gold medals
(individual compound, beam and parallel bars), a silver
medal (compound team) and bronze. At home, her success
brought her the distinction of "Hero of Socialist Labor",
being the youngest Romanian to be awarded this title.
Comăneci defended his European title in 1977, but the
Romanian team left the competition in the finals, in
protest against the refereeing. Nadia Comăneci competed at
the World Championships in 1978 with an above average
weight and out of shape. The fall in the parallel bars
sent her to 4th place, but she won the title of world
champion in the beam.

In 1979, Comăneci, again at normal weight, won the

third European title in the individual compound (becoming
the first athlete in the history of gymnastics to achieve
this performance). At the World Championships in December,
she won the preliminary competition, but was hospitalized
before participating in the team competition, due to an
infection, following a cut on her wrist, caused by a metal
buckle. Despite the doctors' recommendations, she left the
hospital and competed in the beam, where she obtained a
grade of 9.95. His performance gave Romania the first gold
medal in the team competition.She also participated in the
1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, finishing second after Elena
Davidova in the individual compound, when she had to wait
for the grade until Davidova finished her exercise. Nadia
kept her beam title, but also won a new gold medal on the
ground and a silver medal, along with the team.
Nadia Comăneci was one of the best gymnasts in the
world. She retired from competition after the 1980 Moscow
Olympics. Between 1984 and 1989 she was a member of the
Romanian Gymnastics Federation and helped train Romanian
junior gymnasts.