Everyone today knows Nadia Comaneci as the first female gymnast to earn a perfect score at the 1976 Olympics games in Montreal, Canada, but that was just one of her many unique accomplishments. Throughout her gymnastics career she claimed 16 gold medals and went to the Olympics two times, got first in 1976, and won second in 1980.
Nadia Comaneci was born in Onesti, Romania, on November 12, 1961.When she was six years old, she was playing around outside at school, and Bela Karolyi spotted her and immediately wanted her as one of his gymnasts. She soon started training at Onesti Sports Academy, for four hours a day, six days a week, with Sunday being her day off.
After Nadia Comaneci trained for one year, she was ready to compete, at just age seven. She entered the Romanian National Junior Gymnastics Championships, and got thirteenth place all around. After the competition, Bela Karolyi went up to Nadia and gave her a doll, and told her to never get thirteenth place again. Nadia did just that, and next year at age eight, she entered the Romanian National Junior Gymnastics Championships once again, and got first. She was the youngest gymnast to ever win that all around title.
By 1971, she was part of the Romanian Gymnastics Team, and entered her first international gymnastic competition. At her first competition she ended up taking the gold. Nadia Comaneci's first major achievement happened when she just thirteen year old, 1975, when she nearly swept the European Championships, winning gold on the uneven bars, beam, and vault, and silver on floor exercise. She ended up winning the all around title at the European Championships, she was also the youngest gymnast to win that title, along with winning other championships...
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...Sports Hall of Fame, then in 1993 Nadia was Inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
In 1989, while Romania was a Communists country, Nadia Comaneci defected from Romania during the middle of the night, and went to the United States. By 2001 Nadia Comaneci was declared Sportswoman of the Century, which is awarded by World Sports. Currently Nadia and her husband, Bart, own a Gymnastics Academy in Norman, Oklahoma, called Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy.
Nadia Comaneci was the first female gymnast that everyone knew by name. That's why she's the first gymnastics darling. She is still honored and treasured by citizens in Romania, especially the female gymnasts. The gymnasts try take after her, that's why the Romanian gymnastics teams are known for their beautiful beam work and routines, because Nadia Comaneci made a statement on the balance beam.
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Athens, the city named after her to this day. She competed with Poseidon, god of the sea,
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