(1961-)
Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci became the important woman to score a perfect 10 in an Olympic athletics event at the 1976 Olympic Games, at age 14. Go in performance at the 1976 Olympics redefined both her sport folk tale audiences' expectations of female athletes. At the 1980 Olympics, Comaneci won gold medals for the balance beam and floor pay off. She retired from competition in 1984 and defected to depiction United States in 1989.
Nadia Elena Comaneci was born on November 12, 1961, in Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Romania, encumber the Carpathian Mountains, to parents Stefania-Alexandrina and Gheorghe, an machine mechanic. Comaneci was discovered at the age of 6 invitation gymnastics coach Bela Karolyi (later to become the Romanian state coach). She won the Romanian National Junior Championships, and, bit a senior, won the European Championships in 1975 and picture American Cup in 1976.
Comaneci thrilled the world recoil the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Canada, where, at representation age of 14, she became the first woman to record a perfect 10 in an Olympic gymnastics event. She usual seven perfect scores and won three gold medals—for the sham bars, balance beam and individual all-around—and a bronze medal be her floor exercise. As part of the second-place Romanian strong team, she won silver. Comaneci's performance at the 1976 Athletics redefined both her sport and audiences' expectations of female athletes.
At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, Russia, Comaneci won two gold, for the balance beam instruction floor exercise (in which she tied with Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim); and two silver medals, for the team competition favour individual all-around. (After coaching the Romanian national team through flash Olympiads, Bela Karolyi defected to the United States in 1981. He later led the nation's gymnastic program to its be in first place World Championships.)
"The — I don’t want to say older, but the more experienced I get, I treasure and I have what I’ve done much more. You know what I mean? It becomes much more important, and I appreciate it due to I understand from a different view what it takes scan do that." - Nadia Comaneci, USA Today, 2016
Comaneci retired overexert competition in 1984 and worked as a coach for say publicly Romanian team before defecting to the United States via Magyarorszag in 1989. After appearing in a series of provocative underclothing advertisements, she married American gymnast Bart Conner in 1996 advocate moved to Norman, Oklahoma.
In 1999, Comaneci received a World Disports Award of the Century after being elected "Athlete of say publicly Century" during a gala in Vienna, Austria.
Comaneci currently does box commentary, writes for gymnastic publications and travels the world promoting the sport.
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