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Nicoleta Grasu

Nicoleta Grasu
Personal information
Birth name Lenuța Nicoleta Grǎdinaru
Full name Lenuța Nicoleta Grasu
Nationality Romanian
Born (1971-09-11) 11 September 1971 (age 45)
Secuieni, Romania
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 12 in)
Weight 98 kg (216 lb)
Spouse(s) Costel Grasu
Sport
Country  Romania
Sport Athletics
Event(s) Discus
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s) 68.80 m (1999)
Updated on 14 August 2012.

Lenuţa Nicoleta Grasu is a Romanian discus thrower. She was born on 11 September 1971 in Secuieni as Nicoleta Grădinaru, but took a new surname when she married fellow discus thrower Costel Grasu.

Grasu is best known for winning medals at the 1999 and 2001 World Championships. A few years followed without any international medals, but she did finish sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics and fifth at the 2005 World Championships. In 2006 she returned to the medal podium with a bronze at the European Championships.

Her personal best throw is 68.80 metres, achieved in August 1999 in Poiana Braşov.





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