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For decades,
Romania was at the top of world gymnastics. Athletes such as the Olympic
champions Nadia Comăneci, Ecaterina Szabo, Daniela Silivaș, Simona Amânar or
Cătălina Ponor made for years the headlines in sports news from all over the
world. In recent years, however, Romanian gymnastics hasn t got any good
results. The Romanian teams failing to qualify for the Olympic Games in Tokyo
is the full expression of the catastrophic decline of Romanian gymnastics.
The last edition of the
Olympic Games where Romania got some notable results in gymnastics was the one
in London, in 2012. The women s team ranked 3rd in the rankings by country, and
Catalina Ponor won the silver medal in the floor exercise. The best result was
the first place won by Sandra Izbaşa in the vault event, a result that brought
the last Olympic gold medal in the Romanian gymnastics record.
Sandra Izbaşa was born on
June 18th, 1990, in Bucharest. She started practicing gymnastics at the a