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Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner[a] (née Comăneci; born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian retired gymnast. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976, at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. [5] .
Aug 20, 2024 · Nadia Comăneci (born November 12, 1961, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej [now Onești], Romania) is a Romanian gymnast who was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic event. Comăneci was discovered by Bela Karolyi, later the Romanian gymnastics coach, when she was six years old.
Aug 15, 2020 · Six years before the Opening Ceremony of those Games, an eight-year-old from Onesti, Romania, began competing in artistic gymnastics. Only a year later, she became the youngest ever athlete to win a senior national championship in Romania. Her name would never be forgotten: Nadia Comaneci.
Mar 19, 2024 · As part of our series highlighting women who have transformed sports, we spoke exclusively with the five-time Olympic champion about her role in revolutionising gymnastics and the impact of another change-maker, Simone Biles.
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She was the star of the 1976 Montreal Olympics, where she became the very first woman to score a perfect 10 on her way to winning three Gold medals, one Silver and one Bronze. Nadia continued her dominance through the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, where she won two Gold and two Silver medals.
Apr 3, 2012 · Nadia Comaneci will forever be remembered as the first gymnast to achieve the perfect score of 10 in Olympic competition on the way to winning three gold medals at the 1976 Montreal...
THE ESSENTIAL OLYMPIC STORIES – At the age of just 14, the revolutionary gymnast Nadia Comăneci captured the Olympic imagination by achieving the impossible with a perfect and unprecedented 10...
Romania’s Nadia Comăneci was the star of the Montréal Olympics in 1976 when she became the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0. ABC Television set her performance to music, using a theme from a popular American soap opera, and having the song eventually renamed “Nadia’s Theme”.
📺 Re-live ALL the incredible #Paris2024 action ️ https://go.olympics.com/watch In the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games Nadia Comaneci became the first gymnast i...
