Marius Urzică

Personal information

Country represented

Romania

Born

September 30, 1975 (age 41)

Discipline

Men's artistic gymnastics

Club

C.S. Dinamo Bucharest

Head coach(es)

József Ferencz

Assistant coach(es)

Dan Grecu

Eponymous skills

Urzicǎ (pommel horse), Urzicǎ (parallel bars)

Medal record

Olympic Games
	2000 Sydney	Pommel horse
	1996 Atlanta	Pommel horse
	2004 Athens	Pommel horse
	2004 Athens	Team competition
World Championships
	1994 Brisbane	Pommel horse
	2001 Ghent	Pommel horse
	2002 Debrecen	Pommel horse
	1999 Tianjin	Pommel horse
	1995 Sabae	Team
European Championships
	1994 Prague	Pommel horse
	2000 Bremen	Pommel horse
	2002 Patras	Pommel horse
	1999 Debrecen	Pommel horse
Universiade
	1995 Fukuoka	Pommel horse

Marius Daniel Urzică (born September 30, 1975, in Topliţa, Romania) is a Romanian gymnast. Urzică is an Olympic champion, a three-time world champion and a three-time European champion on pommel horse. He competed at three Olympic games, medaling each time on pommel horse (gold Sydney 2000, silver Atlanta 1996 and silver Athena 2004) and contributed to the team bronze in Athens 2004. His unique technique and style of performance have won him the recognition as one of the greatest masters on this piece of apparatus ever, together with Miroslav Cerar and Zoltán Magyar. Known as "The King of the Pommels" in 2001 he achieved the maximum score of 10.00 on this piece of apparatus at the Glasgow Grand Prix. Two elements in artistic gymnastics, one on pommel horse and one on parallel bars are named after him.

He was the founder of Romanian Golden Team

Urzicǎ had difficult routines, which he always tried to execute without fault. Among his skills on the pommel horse was a super E element called "the four Russians on one handle" and a move named after him rated C in the Code of points. On parallel bars he was known for his eponymous salto forward to 1/1 turn to upper arm hang rated E.

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