Nadia Comăneci biography
Nadia Comăneci, (born November 12, 1961, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej [now Onești], Romania), Romanian gymnast who was the primary gymnast to be awarded an ideal rating of 10 in an Olympic occasion.
Comăneci was found by Bela Karolyi, later the Romanian gymnastics coach, when she was six years outdated. She first competed within the nationwide junior championships in 1969, putting thirteenth, and she or he received the competitors in 1970. In her first worldwide competitors, in 1972, a pre-Olympic junior meet for the communist-bloc nations, she received three gold medals, and in 1973 and 1974 she was all-around junior champion. In her first worldwide competitors as a senior, in 1975, she bested the Russian Lyudmila Turishcheva, the five-time European champion, successful 4 gold medals and one silver. She received the American Cup in New York City in 1976, turning into the primary lady to carry out a backward double salto as a dismount from the uneven parallel bars.
At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, Comăneci obtained seven good scores and received the gold medals for the stability beam, the uneven bars, and the all-around particular person competitors. She received a silver medal as a member of her workforce and a bronze medal for the ground workouts. After the 1976 Games, she was named a Hero of Socialist Labour by her nation. The music used to accompany her ground workouts was retitled “Nadia’s Theme (The Young and the Restless)” and have become a global hit, incomes a Grammy Award in 1977. She completed a disappointing fourth on the planet championships in 1978, nonetheless, and was out of competitors throughout most of 1979 with an contaminated hand. At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, she received gold medals for the beam and the ground workouts (tying for first within the latter occasion with Nelli Kim of the united statesS.R.). She received a silver medal as a member of her workforce and tied with Maxi Gnauck of East Germany for second place within the all-around particular person competitors. She retired from competitors in 1984.
Comăneci defected to the United States in 1989; she turned a U.S. citizen in 2001. In 1996 she married American gymnast Bart Conner, with whom she thereafter labored to advertise gymnastics. She revealed an autobiography, Nadia (1981), and a e-book on mentoring, Letters to a Young Gymnast (2003). In 1993 Comăneci turned the second particular person (after Olga Korbut) inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.