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Eugenia Golea (born 10 March 1971) is a retired Romanian
artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...
, who competed in international events between 1984 and 1988."Gymnastics Greats: Eugenia Golea"
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She is known for scoring a perfect 10 for the vault optional in the team competition of the 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships“Gymn Forum: 1987 World Artistic Championships, Women's Team ”
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and for being the first gymnast to compete two consecutive layout stepout jumps.
/ref> She helped her team to win an Olympic silver medal, a world title and a world silver medal. She liked all the events equally, though she excelled in vaulting and floor. On vault she won a world silver medal and a continental bronze and on beam she won a continental silver medal.


Career

Golea began training at School Club N 2 in Bucharest under the coaching of Lucia Marcu and Mihai Demetrescu. Later she joined the national team at Deva where she trained with Adrian Gorean, Adrian Stan and Maria Cosma.
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Her debut as a senior in an international event was in 1984. Although she had an excellent showing at the 1984 Balkan Championships where she placed first with the team and third all-around she was left off the 1984 Olympic team. In 1985 she was a member of the silver winning team at the World Championships in Montreal. In 1987, together with
Aurelia Dobre Aurelia Dobre (born 16 November 1972) is a former artistic gymnast and the 1987 world all-around champion. She is the 1987 world champion on the balance beam and the bronze medalist on the vault and floor exercise, as well, and scored five p ...
, Camelia Voinea, Celestina Popa, Daniela Silivaș and
Ecaterina Szabo Ecaterina Szabo (, ; born 22 January 1968) is a former Romanian Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast who won 20 Olympic, world and continental medals. Szabo won gold medals in the 1984 Summer Olympics, 1984 Olympics in three individual events ...
, Golea was a member of the gold medal winning team at the 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in
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. During the vault optional in the team finals both Aurelia Dobre and Golea scored perfect tens from the judges, Golea being one of three women (along with
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and Svetlana Baitova) to debut the double twisting yurchenko at the World Championships that year. Individually she won the silver medal on vault behind Elena Shushunova.1987 World Artistic Championships, Women's Final Events
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She added two more individual medals at the 1987 European Championships in
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, a silver on beam and a bronze on vault.1987 European Artistic Championships, Women's Final Events
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After winning silver with the team at the
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, Golea retired.


Post retirement

After retiring she joined her brother in an acrobatic circus act. In 1991 she moved to
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. There, she worked for a circus and helped coach the Puerto Rican gymnastics team. Golea eventually moved to the United States to work as a gymnastic coach and choreographer. She coached at American Gymnastics in Bedford Hills, New York and YWCA in White Plains, New York.Eugenia Golea
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References

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