Nadia Comăneci

Nadia Comăneci
— Gymnast —
Nadia Comăneci at the 1976 Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Nadia Elena Comăneci
Country represented	Romania (Socialist Republic of Romania)
Born	(1961-11-12) November 12, 1961 (age 55) Onești, Socialist Republic of Romania
Height	5 ft 3.5 in (1.61 m)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Gym	National Training Center
Former coach(es)	Béla Károlyi Márta Károlyi
Choreographer	Geza Pozsar
Eponymous skills	Comăneci salto (uneven bars)
Retired	1984 (official)
Medal record International gymnastics competitions Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 5 3 1 World Championships 2 2 0 European Championships 9 2 1 Summer University Games 5 0 0 Total 21 7 2 Representing  Romania Olympic Games 1976 Montréal All-Around 1976 Montréal Uneven Bars 1976 Montréal Balance Beam 1980 Moscow Balance Beam 1980 Moscow Floor Exercise 1976 Montréal Team 1980 Moscow Team 1980 Moscow All-Around 1976 Montréal Floor Exercise World Championships 1978 Strasbourg Balance Beam 1979 Ft. Worth Team 1978 Strasbourg Team 1978 Strasbourg Vault European Championships 1975 Skien All-Around 1975 Skien Uneven Bars 1975 Skien Balance Beam 1975 Skien Vault 1977 Prague All-Around 1977 Prague Uneven Bars 1979 Copenhagen All-Around 1979 Copenhagen Vault 1979 Copenhagen Floor Exercise 1975 Skien Floor Exercise 1977 Prague Vault 1979 Copenhagen Balance Beam Summer Universiade 1981 Bucharest Team 1981 Bucharest All-Around 1981 Bucharest Uneven Bars 1981 Bucharest Vault 1981 Bucharest Floor Exercise

Nadia Elena Comăneci (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈnadi.a koməˈnet͡ʃʲ]; born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian former gymnast who, at the age of 14, became the first gymnast in Olympic history to be awarded the perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She would eventually go on to receive six more perfect 10s in Montreal as well as three gold medals. Four years later, she won two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She won a total of nine Olympic medals and four World Championship medals during her career. Comăneci is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world and is credited with popularizing the sport around the world. In 2000, she was named as one of the Athletes of the 20th Century by the Laureus World Sports Academy. She has lived in the United States since 1989 and is married to American Olympic gold medalist Bart Conner.

Nadia Elena Comăneci was born on November 12, 1961, in Onești, which is a small town in the Carpathian Mountains, in Bacău County, Romania, in the historical region of Western Moldavia. At the death of Communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej in March 1965, the town was renamed Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, but the name was changed back after the fall of communism. Comăneci grew up in the Socialist Republic of Romania, when Romania was under a Marxist-Leninist one-party Communist rule government. While it was a Soviet-aligned Eastern Bloc state during the Cold War (from 1947 to 1989), it was not a part of the Soviet Union.