Silvia Alexandra Stroescu (born 8 May 1985 in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

. She is an Olympic, world, and European gold medalist with the team.

Early life and career

She was one of the most successful junior gymnast of her generation. The major achievements of her junior years were the win of the prestigious Top Gym Trophy (1998) and of four medals (two gold and two silver) at the 2000 Junior European Gymnastics Championships.Gymn Forum Results
Junior European Championships 2000 – Paris At these championships she won gold on floor (9.725), tied for gold on balance beam with Sabina Cojocar (9.6), earned a share of the Romanian team's silver medal, and placed second all-around (37.973) behind teammate Sabina Cojocar. Initially, Stroescu did not qualify for the all around event due to the two-per-country rule, having achieved the third qualification score among her teammates. But, in the all around final she replaced Carmen Ionescu who withdrew in her favor. Silvia Stroescu

Senior career

Her senior debut at a major international event was at the 2001 World Championships. Here she contributed to Romania's sixth team titleFederation Internationale de Gimnastique
Silvia Stroescu by competing on beam and uneven bars. Individually, she placed eleventh all around and seventh on floor.
35th World Championships 2001 -Gent Later that year she won the mixed pair Swiss Cup event together with Marian Drăgulescu.Gymn Forum Results
Swiss Cup 2001 In the period 2002–2003 she did not make the team for major international events but she competed at the national championships and at some friendly international competitions. After being sidelined for two years, she joined the team for the 2004 European Championships where she contributed to the team title.
2004 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Just weeks before the 2004 Olympic Games she decided to give up gymnastics being disappointed for not making the Olympic team. However, her disappointment was short lived and she returned to replace injured Aura Munteanu. Stroescu went to Athens and was part of an immensely successful Romanian women's gymnastics team (four golds, one silver and one bronze in six events) that also included

Oana Ban Oana Mihaela Ban (born 11 January 1986 in Cluj-Napoca) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. She is an Olympic gold medalist with the team and a world silver medalist on beam and with the team. Her best events were the floor and the balance bea ...

, Monica Roșu, Cătălina Ponor, Daniela Sofronie and Alexandra Eremia. Though the team members were less experienced than most of their rivals, the Romanians hit every routine to take the team gold by a comfortable margin. World champions USA were second, and the Russians, led by Svetlana Khorkina, took the bronze.2004 Olympic Games Women's Artistic Gymnastics Finals
GymnasticsResults.com. Retrieved 10 March 2007.

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