Simona Cristina Gherman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gherman at the 2014 European Fencing Championships
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Born |
Bucharest, Romania |
12 April 1985 ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weapon(s) | Épée | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hand | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 55 kg (121 lb; 8.7 st) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
National coach(es) | Dan Podeanu, Gheorghe Epurescu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Steaua București | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Cornel Milan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FIE Ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Simona Gherman (née Alexandru; born 12 April 1985) is a Romanian épée fencer, European champion in 2012 and 2016. She was twice team World Champion in 2010 and 2011 and five-time team European Champion in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2014 and 2015.
Gherman was born in Bucharest in 1985. Her first significant result was a team bronze medal with Loredana Iordăchioiu and Ana Maria Brânză at the 2004 Junior World Championships in Plovdiv. The same year, she won a Junior World Cup tournament in Palermo.
Gherman then joined the senior national team captained by Brânză. Along with Iordăchioiu and Anca Măroiu, they won the European Championships in 2008 and 2009. In the 2010 World Fencing Championships, the “Power Praf girls”—a nickname the Romanian team had given themselves after the Powerpuff Girls anime— took the first Romanian team gold in épée after defeating Germany at the Grand Palais in Paris.
In 2011, Gherman won a team gold at the European Fencing Championships in Sheffield and at the World Military Championships in Rio de Janeiro. In August, she married Dragoș Gherman, whose name she took in competitions. In the World Championships Romania met China in the final. After Brânză was injured, Gherman fenced Li Na in the last leg and scored the decisive hit, allowing Romania to retain their gold medal. She contributed more than half her team's hits. Three World Cup podiums in Budapest, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro, allowed her to reach the 6th place in FIE rankings.