Marian Rizan (born 29 October 1966) is a retired

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artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1988 and

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with the best individual result of 9th place on the

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in 1988. He placed third in this event at the 1987 European and fourth at the

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. Rizan retired from competitions around 1991 to become a gymnastics coach and trained the Romanian national team from 1994 to 1996. After that he worked as a national coach in

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