Results: Nadia Comaneci
Published on 10/17/2023
Nadia Comaneci (November 12, 1961 - age 61) is a retired Romanian gymnast. She is a five time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976 in Montreal, at the age of 14, Comaneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games.
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Montreal Olympics 1976 - Nadia Comaneci was awarded the first perfect 10 score in Olympic history on the uneven bars. Do you know any of the following?
Nadia Comaneci's first international success came in 1975 at age 13 at the 1975 European Women's Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Skien, Norway. She won the all-around and gold medals in every event but the floor exercise, in which she was placed second.
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In March 1976 Nadia Comaneci competed in the American Cup at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. She received rare scores of 10 for her vault in the preliminary stage and for her floor exercise routine in the final of the all-around competition, which she won.
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During the American Cup competition Comaneci met American gymnast Bart Conner for the first time.
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Montreal Olympics 1976 - Balance Beam. Nadia Comaneci was awarded seven scores of 10 - four on the uneven bars and three on the balance beam. Do you know any of the following?
The Olympics scoreboard manufacturer had not programmed the scoreboard to display the score of 10 so Comaneci's 10 appeared as 1.00.
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She won gold medals for the individual all-around, the balance beam and uneven bars. She also won a bronze for the floor exercise and a silver as part of the team all-around.
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Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim was her main rival during the Montreal Olympics and became the second gymnast to receive a perfect 10 for her performance on the vault.
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Moscow Olympics 1980 - Balance Beam. She was now seven inches taller and 21 pounds heavier than 1976. She won two gold medals, one for the balance beam and one for the floor exercise (tied with Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim). Do you know any of the following?
Her coaches Bela and Marta Karolyi defected to the US in 1981. Karolyi hinted a few times to Comaneci that he might defect and indirectly asked if she wanted to join him. At that time, she had no interest in defecting, and said she wanted to go home to Romania.
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After Karolyi defected Romanian officials feared that she would also defect. Feeling she was a national asset, they strictly monitored her actions, refusing to allow her to travel outside the country.
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On the night of November 27, 1989, a few weeks before the Romanian Revolution, Comaneci defected with a group of other Romanians.
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Moscow Olympics 1980 - Floor exercise. Comaneci also won two silver medals, one for the team all-around and one for individual all-around. Do you know any of the following?
Comaneci moved to Oklahoma in 1991 to help her friend Bart Conner, another Olympic gold medalist, with his gymnastics school. They were together for four years before they became engaged and were married in 1996.
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Comaneci holds the record as the youngest ever Olympic gymnastics all-around champion at age 14. The sport has since raised its age-eligibility requirements so that gymnasts must be at least 16 in the same calendar year of the Olympics in order to compete. When Comaneci competed in 1976, gymnasts had only to be 14 by the first day of the competition.
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