Aug 05, 2012 · It is Izbasa’s second Olympic gymnastics gold, after her floor title in Beijing four years ago, and follows on from the bronze medal she won with Romania in the team final on Tuesday.
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27 rows · From the 1972 Summer Games through the 2012 Summer Games, Romania had qualified a women’s team for the gymnastics team all-around. They had won medals at every Olympics from the 1976 Summer Games through to the 2012 Summer Games.
The Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee (Romanian: Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român, COSR) sent the nation’s smallest team to the Games since the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. A total of 108 athletes, 50 men and 58 women, had competed in 16 different sports, most notably in artistic gymnastics and rowing.
Nadia Comaneci took up the sport of gymnastics aged six, becoming one of the first students at a college founded by coach Béla Károlyi. In 1975, 13-year-old Comaneci won gold in every event at the European Championships except the floor exercise.
(L-R) Silver medalists Horia Tecau and Florin Mergea of Romania, gold medalists Rafael Nadal and Marc Lopez of Spain, and bronze medalists Steve Johnson and Jack Sock of the United States stand on the podium after the Men’s Doubles competition on Day 7 of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Tennis Centre on August 12, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Romania defeats China to win the women’s team epee gold medal.
He beat four Rio Olympic 86kg opponents by a combined 28-1. Sadulayev was more impressive than Snyder in Monday’s early rounds, winning all four matches by the 10-point mercy rule.
Despite it being women’s soccer’s Olympic debut at the Atlanta 1996 Olympic Games and receiving no live television coverage, the U.S. found itself competing in front of record-breaking crowds.
USA Gymnastics is the National Governing Body (NGB) for the sport of gymnastics in the United States, consistent with the Ted Stevens Olympic & Amateur Sports Act, the Bylaws of the United States Olympic Committee and the International Gymnastics Federation.
