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Nadia Comăneci
Nadia Comăneci
Women's artistic gymnastics
Competitor for Flag of Romania Romania
Olympic Games
Gold 1976 Montréal All-around
Gold 1976 Montréal Uneven bars
Gold 1976 Montréal Balance beam
Gold 1980 Moscow Balance beam
Gold 1980 Moscow Floor exercise
Silver 1976 Montréal Team competition
Silver 1980 Moscow Team competition
Silver 1980 Moscow All-around
Bronze 1976 Montréal Floor exercise
World Championships
Gold 1978 Strasbourg Balance Beam
Gold 1979 Ft. Worth Team
Silver 1978 Strasbourg Team
Silver 1978 Strasbourg Vault
European Championships
Gold 1975 Skien All around
Gold 1975 Skien Uneven Bars
Gold 1975 Skien Balance Beam
Gold 1975 Skien Vault
Gold 1977 Prague All around
Gold 1977 Prague Uneven Bars
Gold 1979 Copenhagen All around
Gold 1979 Copenhagen Vault
Gold 1979 Copenhagen Floor Exercise
Silver 1975 Skien Floor Exercise
Bronze 1977 Prague Vault
Bronze 1979 Copenhagen Balance Beam

Nadia Elena Comaneci (originally Comăneci /ko. Gymnastics has been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania The Olympic Games is an international Multi-sport event established for both summer and winter games The 19th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Strasbourg, France, in 1978. The 20th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Fort Worth, USA, in 1979. The 19th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Strasbourg, France, in 1978. The 19th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Strasbourg, France, in 1978. mə'neʧʲ/; born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of five Olympic gold medals, and the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. Events 764 - Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania Gymnastics is a Sport involving performance of exercises requiring physical strength agility and coordination The Olympic Games is an international Multi-sport event established for both summer and winter games She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world and, along with Olga Korbut, is credited with popularizing the sport around the world. Olga Valentinovna Korbut ( Belarusian: Вольга Валянцінаўна Корбут, Volha Valancinaŭna Korbut; Russian: Ольга [1][2]

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Early life

Comaneci was born in Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (Oneşti), Romania, as the daughter of Gheorghe and Ştefania-Alexandrina. Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania [3][4] Her pregnant mother was watching a Russian film in which the heroine of the story's name was Nadya, the shortened version of the Russian name Nadyezhda (which means, literally, "Hope"). She decided that her daughter would be named Nadia, too. Comaneci also has a younger brother named Adrian. [5]

Early gymnastics career

Comaneci began gymnastics in kindergarten with a local team called "Flame," with coaches Duncan and Munteanu. [6][7] At age 6 she was chosen to attend Béla Károlyi's experimental gymnastics school after he spotted her and a friend turning cartwheels in a schoolyard. Béla Károlyi (born September 13 1942 is a world-renowned Gymnastics coach [8][9]

Comaneci was training with the Károlyis by the time she was 7 years old, in 1969. She was one of the first students at the gymnastics school established in Onesti by Béla and his wife, Marta, who would later defect to the United States and become coaches of many prominent American gymnasts. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Unlike many of the other students at the Károlyi school, Comaneci was able to commute from home for many years because she lived in the area. [10]

Comaneci placed 13th in her first Romanian National Championships in 1969. A year later, in 1970, she began competing as a member of her hometown team and became the youngest gymnast ever to win the Romanian Nationals. [3] In 1971, she participated in her first international competition, a dual junior meet between Romania and Yugoslavia, winning her first all-around title and contributing to the team gold. For the next few years, she competed as a junior in numerous national contests in Romania and additional dual meets with nearby countries such as Hungary, Italy and Poland. Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland [11] At the age of 11, in 1973, she won the all-around gold, as well as the vault and uneven bars titles, at the Junior Friendship Tournament (Druzhba), an important meet for junior gymnasts. [12][13]

Comaneci's first major international success came at the age of 13, when she nearly swept the 1975 European Championships in Skien, Norway, winning the all-around and gold medals on every event but the floor exercise, in which she placed second. is a city and municipality in the county of Telemark, Norway and administrative centre of Telemark County In Gymnastics, the floor refers to a specially prepared exercise surface which is considered an apparatus She continued to enjoy success in other meets in 1975, winning the all-around at the "Champions All" competition and placing first in the all-around, vault, beam, and bars at the Romanian National Championships. In the Pre-Olympic test event in Montreal, Comaneci won the all-around and the balance beam golds, as well as silvers in the vault, floor, and bars behind accomplished Soviet gymnast Nellie Kim, who would prove to be one of her greatest rivals over the next five years. Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec Nellie Vladimirovna Kim ( Russian: rus Нелли Владимировна Ким b [14]

In March 1976, Comaneci competed in the inaugural edition of the American Cup at Madison Square Garden in New York. Madison Square Garden, often abbreviated as MSG, and known colloquially as The Garden, has been the name of four Arenas in New York City. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous She received unprecedented scores of 10. 0, which signified a perfect routine without any deductions, on vault in both the preliminary and final rounds of competition and won the all-around. [15] Comaneci also received 10s in other meets in 1976, including the prestigious Chunichi Cup competition in Japan, where she posted perfect marks on the vault and uneven bars. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Japan topics. [16]

The international community took note of Comaneci: she was named the United Press International's "Female Athlete of the Year" for 1975. [17]

Montreal Olympics

At the age of 14, Comaneci became one of the stars of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The 1976 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event held in Montreal, Quebec Montreal, or Montréal in French ( pronounced in French, in English) is the largest city in the Canadian province of Quebec During the team portion of the competition, her routine on the uneven bars was scored at a 10. 0. It was the first time in modern Olympic gymnastics history that the score had ever been awarded. The scoreboards were not even equipped to display scores of 10. 0—so Nadia's perfect marks were reported on the boards as 1. 00 instead. [18] Over the course of the Olympics, Comaneci would earn six additional 10s, en route to capturing the all-around, beam and bars titles and a bronze medal on the floor exercise. The Romanian team also placed second in the team competition. [19]

Comaneci was the first Romanian gymnast to win the all-around title at the Olympics. She also holds the record as the youngest Olympic gymnastics all-around champion ever; with the revised age-eligibility requirements in the sport (gymnasts must now turn 16 in the calendar year to compete in the Olympics; in 1976 gymnasts had to be 14 by the first day of the competition[20]), this record is currently unable to be broken.

Comaneci's achievements at the Olympics generated a significant amount of media attention. The theme song from the American soap opera The Young and the Restless became associated with her after the television program ABC's Wide World Of Sports used it as background music for montages of her routines. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the A soap opera is an ongoing episodic work of Fiction, usually broadcast on Television or Radio. The Young and the Restless is a 39 time Emmy Award winning American Television Soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26 ABC's Wide World of Sports was a long-running Sports Anthology show on American Television that ran as a series from 1961 to 1998 The song became a top ten single in the fall of 1976, and the composer, Barry De Vorzon, renamed it to "Nadia's Theme" after her. Barry De Vorzon (born July 31, 1934 in New York City) is an American singer songwriter producer and composer "Nadia's Theme" is a piece of music composed by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin Jr [21] However, Comaneci never actually performed to "Nadia's Theme. " Her floor exercise music was a medley of the songs "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" and "Jump in the Line" arranged for piano.

She was the 1976 BBC Sports Personality of the Year in the overseas athletes category[22] and the Associated Press's 1976 "Female Athlete of the Year". The Associated Press ( AP) is an American News agency. The AP is a Cooperative owned by its contributing Newspapers radio [23] She also retained her title as the UPI Female Athlete of the Year. [24] Back home in Romania, Comaneci's success led her to be named a "Hero of Socialist Labor," she was the youngest Romanian to receive such recognition during the administration of Nicolae Ceauşescu. Hero of Socialist Labor ( Russian: Герой Социалистического Труда Geroy Sotsialisticheskovo Truda) was an honorary title in the Nicolae Ceauşescu (nikoˈlaje tʃauˈʃesku (January 26 1918 – December 25 1989 was the communist dictator of Romania from 1965 until December 1989 when a revolution [6]

1977–1980

Comaneci successfully defended her European all-around title in 1977, but when questions about the scoring were raised, Ceauşescu ordered the Romanian gymnasts to return home. The team followed orders and controversially walked out of the competition during the event finals. [25][6]

Following the 1977 Europeans, the Romanian Gymnastics Federation removed Comaneci from her longtime coaches, the Károlyis, and sent her to Bucharest to train at the 23 August sports complex. Bucharest ( Romanian: Bucureşti) is the Capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. The change was not positive for Comaneci. Grappling with both the stress of her parents' divorce and the new training environment, she was extremely unhappy and her gymnastics and overall fitness suffered. [26][6] An overweight and out of shape Comaneci showed up at the 1978 World Championships. The 19th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Strasbourg, France, in 1978. A fall from the uneven bars resulted in a 4th place finish in the all-around behind Elena Mukhina, Nellie Kim, and Natalia Shaposhnikova, but Comaneci won the beam title. Elena Vyacheslavovna Mukhina ( Russian:Елена Вячеславовна Мухина ( June 1, 1960 - December 22, 2006) born in Natalia Vitalyevna Shaposhnikova ( Russian:Наталья Витальевна Шапошникова (b

After the 1978 Worlds, Comaneci was permitted to return to Deva and to the Károlyis. [27] In 1979, a newly slim and motivated Comaneci won her third consecutive European all-around title, becoming the first gymnast, male or female, to achieve the feat. At the World Championships that December, Comaneci led the field after the compulsory competition but was hospitalized prior to the optional portion of the team competition for blood poisoning caused by a cut in her wrist from her metal grip buckle. The 20th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Fort Worth, USA, in 1979. Against doctors' orders, she left the hospital and competed on the beam, where she scored a 9. 95. Her performance helped give the Romanians their first team gold medal. After her performance, Comaneci spent several days recovering in All Saints Hospital and underwent a minor surgical procedure for the infected hand, which had developed an abscess. An abscess (abscessus is a collection of Pus (dead Neutrophils) that has accumulated in a cavity formed by the tissue on the basis of an infectious process [28][29][30]

Comaneci participated in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, where she placed second, by a small margin, to Yelena Davydova . The 1980 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event held in Moscow in the Soviet Moscow (Москва́ romanised: Moskvá, IPA: see also other names) is the Capital and the largest city of Yelena Victorovna Davydova ( Еле́на Ви́кторовна Давы́дова born August 7, 1961 in Voronezh, 400 miles south of Moscow She defended her Olympic title in the balance beam and tied with Nellie Kim for the gold medal in the floor exercise. Nellie Vladimirovna Kim ( Russian: rus Нелли Владимировна Ким b The Romanian team finished second overall.

Comaneci retired from competition in 1981. Her official retirement ceremony took place in Bucharest in 1984 and was attended by the International Olympic Committee Chairman. [31]

Post retirement

In 1981, Comaneci participated in a gymnastics exhibition tour in the United States. [32] During the tour, her coaches, Béla and Marta Károlyi, along with the Romanian team choreographer Geza Pozar, defected. [33] Upon her return to Romania, Comaneci's actions were strictly monitored. She was granted leave to attend the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles but was supervised for the entire trip. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Aside from that journey, and a few select trips to Moscow and Cuba, Comaneci was forbidden to leave the country for any reason. "[34] "Life. . . " she wrote in her autobiography, "took on a new bleakness. "[35]

Working in Romania, between 1984 and 1989, Comaneci was a member of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and helped coach the Romanian junior gymnasts. In November of 1989, a few weeks before the Revolution, she defected with a group of other young Romanians. Her overland journey took her through Hungary, Austria, and finally, to the United States. [6][36][19] Her initial arrival in the United States generated some negative press, focusing on her penchant for heavy makeup and trashy clothes, the fact that Constantin Panait (a Romanian exile who helped her escape from Romania and was her constant companion) was a married father of 4, and hinted at an eating disorder and an unsavory life left behind in Romania. [37]

Comaneci initially settled in Montreal. With the help of friends, she successfully distanced herself from Panait and the image problems of her initial arrival from Romania. Comaneci spent most of her time touring and promoting lines of gymnastics apparel and aerobic equipment. She also dabbled in modeling, appearing in ads for wedding dresses and Jockey underwear. [19]

While she was living in Montreal, Bart Conner, whom she had met for the first time in 1976 at the American Cup, contacted her and invited her to live in Oklahoma. Bart Wayne Conner (born March 28, 1958 in Chicago Illinois) is a former American gymnast who as a member of the gold medal-winning men's gymnastics They became engaged in 1994. Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) Together with Conner, she returned to Romania for the first time since her defection (and since the fall of Communism and of Ceausescu), and the couple were married in Bucharest on April 27, 1996. Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based Events 1124 - David I becomes King of Scotland. 1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated Year 1996 ( MCMXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar) The ceremony was broadcast live in Romania, and the reception was held in the former presidential palace. [19][38]

On June 29, 2001, Comaneci became a naturalized citizen of the United States. Events 512 - A Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. Naturalization is the acquisition of Citizenship or Nationality by somebody who was not a citizen or national of that country when he or she was born She has also retained her Romanian passport, making her a dual citizen. Multiple citizenship, or multiple nationality is a status in which a person is concurrently regarded as a Citizen under the laws of more than one state. [6]

In December 2003, Comaneci's autobiography, Letters To A Young Gymnast, was published. The memoir answers questions that she has received in letters from fans. She has also been the subject of several unofficial biographies, television documentaries and a made-for-television film, Nadia, that was broadcast in the United States shortly before the 1984 Olympics. [39]

Comaneci and Conner welcomed their first child, a baby boy named Dylan Paul Conner, on June 3, 2006 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Events 350 - Roman usurper Nepotianus, of the Constantinian dynasty, proclaims himself Roman Emperor, entering Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Oklahoma City is the capital and largest city of the US state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma ( is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. [40][41]

Current activities

Comaneci is active in many charities and international organizations. In 1999, she became the first athlete to be invited to speak at the United Nations to launch the Year 2000 International Year of Volunteers. The United Nations ( UN) is an International organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in International law, International security She is currently the Vice-Chair of the Board Of Directors of the International Special Olympics and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Special Olympics is an international organization created to help people with Intellectual disabilities develop self-confidence social skills and a sense of personal accomplishment The Muscular Dystrophy Association ( MDA) is an organization founded in 1950 which combats Muscular dystrophy and diseases of the Nervous system [19][42] She has also personally funded the construction and operation of the Nadia Comaneci Children's Clinic, a clinic in Bucharest that provides low-cost and free medical and social support to Romanian children. [43]

In 2003, the Romanian government appointed her as an Honorary Consul General of Romania to the United States to deal with bilateral relations between the two nations. She performs this function based out of her Norman, Oklahoma, office. Norman is the largest city in and the County seat of Cleveland County in the U [44]

In the world of gymnastics, Comaneci is the Honorary President of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation, the Honorary President of Romanian Olympic Committee, Ambassador of Sports of Romania and a member of the International Gymnastics Federation Foundation. She and her husband own the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy, the Perfect 10 Production Company and several sports equipment shops. They are also the editors of International Gymnast magazine. Additionally, Comaneci and Conner have provided television commentary for many gymnastics meets, most recently the 2005 World Championships in Melbourne. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 [19] In 2000, her 10. 0 Montreal uneven bars routine was featured in a commercial for Adidas which ran during the Sydney Olympics. WikipediaManual of Style (trademarks, which says "Lowercased trademarks with no internal

On August 10, 2007, Nadia was a "mob" participant on the American version of the game show 1 vs 100, and was not eliminated until the last 20 members of the mob were left. Events 612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. The American version of 1 vs 100 is broadcast by NBC. As in other formats a single player (the 1 goes up against 100 other contestants (the "Mob" In January 2008, she was one of the contestants in the celebrity edition of Donald Trump's television program The Apprentice. Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American Business magnate, Socialite, Television personality, and The Celebrity Apprentice (also known as The Apprentice 7) is the seventh installment of the United States version of the Reality television [45]

Awards

Comaneci received the Olympic Order, the highest award given by the International Olympic Committee, in 1984 and 2004. The Olympic Order is the highest award of the Olympic Movement created by the International Olympic Committee in May 1975 as a successor to the Olympic Certificate She is the only person to receive this honor twice, and was also the youngest recipient. She has also been inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. The International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, located in Oklahoma City, USA, is a Hall of Fame dedicated to honoring the achievements and contributions of [46]

In 2005, Fox. com elected the Greatest Athletes in 150 years of Sports history, Nadia placed 4th in the final voting, ahead of Pelé and Muhammad Ali, and was the highest ranked female athlete. Biography Early life Cassius Clay Jr was born on January 17 1942

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Pop culture references

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