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Bărbosu at the 2022 European Championships
Personal information
Full name	Ana Maria Bărbosu
Country represented	Romania
Born	(2006-07-26) 26 July 2006 (age 18) Focșani, Romania
Hometown	Focșani, Romania
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior international elite
Years on national team	2019 – present (ROU)
Club	CSS Focșani
Head coach(es)	Patrick Kiens
Assistant coach(es)	Corina Morosan, Florin Cotutiu, Daymon Jones
Former coach(es)	Lucian Sandu, Gina Gogean, Daniela Trandafir
Choreographer	Patrick Kiens, Daymon Jones
Medal record Representing  Romania Olympic Games Bronze 2024 Paris Floor exercise Junior European Championships Gold 2020 Mersin Team Gold 2020 Mersin All-Around Gold 2020 Mersin Vault Gold 2020 Mersin Uneven Bars Gold 2020 Mersin Balance Beam Gold 2020 Mersin Floor Exercise FIG World Cup Event 1st 2nd 3rd World Challenge Cup 4 0 1

Ana Maria Bărbosu (born 26 July 2006) is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She won the bronze medal in the floor exercise at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris after her team successfully challenged the technical legality of a correction made to the judges scorecards. She is a six-time European junior champion and won all junior events at the 2020 European Championships, including the team event. Bărbosu is also a three-time Romanian National Championships all-around champion.

Junior gymnastics career

2017

Bărbosu competed in the Junior II Level 3 division at the 2017 Romanian Junior Championships, finishing fourth in the all-around. In event finals, she was fifth on vault and fourth on uneven bars, before she earned a silver medal on balance beam and a bronze medal on floor.

2019

Bărbosu opened her season at the domestic Petrom Cup in June, winning gold in the all-around ahead of Sabrina Voinea and Maria Ceplinschi. She then won gold in the Espoir division at the 2019 Romanian Junior Championships the following week, again ahead of Voinea and Amalia Petre in third. At the senior Championships in September, Bărbosu won bronze in the all-around and on floor, while also placing sixth on vault and balance beam and seventh on uneven bars. The following month, at the Romanian Individual Championships, she nearly swept the Espoir division, winning titles in the all-around and on every event but vault, where she won silver behind Voinea.

Bărbosu made her junior international debut in November at the Swiss Cup in Wallisellen, where she won gold with the Romanian team and individually in the all-around. She finished in the top two on every event. Bărbosu competed at the Horizon Cup in Thessaloniki, Greece the following week, where she won the Espoir 2006 all-around title after posting the top score on every event but uneven bars. She finished her international season at Top Gym in Charleroi, Belgium at the end of the month, where the combined Romanian/Singaporean team finished fourth. Individually, Bărbosu won the silver medal in the all-around between Russians Vladislava Urazova and Elena Gerasimova. In event finals, she won silver on floor, bronze on beam, and tied for bronze on bars with Lilou Besson of France.

2020

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, gymnasts had limited international competitive opportunities. At the 2020 Romanian Championships, Bărbosu won the silver medal behind Silviana Sfiringu and ahead of Ioana Stănciulescu to finish as the highest-placing junior in the combined all-around final. In the junior division, she again won all-around gold and also swept the event titles. As a result, Bărbosu was named to the nominative team for the 2020 European Junior Championships alongside Iulia Trestianu, Maria Ceplinschi, Andreea Preda, and Luiza Popa.

At Junior Euros, Bărbosu led the Romanian team to a gold medal finish of more than 10 points ahead of Ukraine and Hungary. Individually, she won the all-around title by over 4 points ahead of teammate Ceplinschi and Daniela Batrona of Ukraine and qualified first into all four of the event finals. She then won gold in all four event finals.

2021

At the Romanian Championships in September, Bărbosu won the gold medal on the uneven bars, and took the silver on floor as well as in the all-around. In November, she competed at the Top Gym Tournament in Belgium, where she won the all-around, and also picked up the gold medals in the uneven bars and balance beam finals.

Senior gymnastics career

2022

Bărbosu became age-eligible for senior competition in 2022, and made her senior debut at the City of Jesolo Trophy, where she finished fourteenth in the all-around and eighth on the uneven bars. She then competed at the Osijek World Challenge Cup, where she won the gold medal on floor exercise, and took the bronze on balance beam behind Pauline Schäfer and Ana Đerek. At the European Championships in Munich, Bărbosu finished seventh in the all-around, fourth on floor, and eighth on the balance beam. Ana qualified to the beam final in first place. In the floor final she scored a 13.633. Additionally, she helped Romania qualify a full team for the 2022 World Championships in Liverpool. In October Bărbosu competed at the Mersin Challenge Cup where she won gold on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. At the 2022 World Championships in Liverpool Bărbosu finished 20th in the all around final.

2023

Bărbosu competed at the 2023 European Championships where she helped Romania finish fifth as a team. Individually she finished ninth in the all-around and seventh on floor exercise. Later in the year she competed at the 2023 World Championships alongside Lilia Cosman, Amalia Ghigoarta, Sabrina Voinea, and Andreea Preda. During qualifications they finished tenth. Although they did not qualify for the team final, they qualified a team to the 2024 Olympic Games, a feat last achieved in 2012. Individually Bărbosu qualified to the all-around final where she finished twenty-third.

2024

In the floor exercise, Jordan Chiles, who was the last competitor to perform in the final, initially received a score of 13.666, which put her in fifth place directly behind Bărbosu and fellow Romanian Sabrina Voinea who each received a score of 13.700 with Bărbosu winning the execution-score tie-breaker. Chiles' coach, Cécile Canqueteau-Landi, filed an inquiry on Chiles' score which resulted in a review that found her difficulty had been entered incorrectly. It was then adjusted to 5.9 from 5.8, and the overall score was upgraded to 13.766, moving her from fifth into a bronze medal position.

Former Romanian Olympic gymnast, Nadia Comăneci, and Mihai Covaliu, president of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee, requested that Morinari Watanabe, the president of the International Gymnastics Federation, allow for Voinea's floor exercise to be re-analyzed. The Prime Minister of Romania, Marcel Ciolacu, stated that he would boycott the closing ceremony due to "the scandalous situation in the gymnastics, where [Romanian] athletes were treated in an absolutely dishonorable manner".

Bărbosu and Voinea both appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS). Bărbosu appealed that Chiles' inquiry was filed four seconds after the one-minute deadline, and therefore should not have been reviewed in the first place. On August 10, five days after the final, the CAS found that Chiles' inquiry was filed beyond the 1-minute deadline specified in art. 8.5 of FIG 2024 Technical Regulations (specifically 1 minute and 4 seconds). The CAS therefore ruled that the "initial score of 13.666 given to Ms Jordan Chiles in the final of the women's floor exercise shall be reinstated" and ordered the International Gymnastics Federation to determine the ranking of the final and "assign the medal(s) in accordance with the above decision." Voinea's appeal was simultaneously rejected. The FIG reinstated Bărbosu to third place in the women's floor exercise final at the Paris Olympics and stated that while they have restored the original standings—placing Bărbosu third, Romanian teammate Sabrina Maneca-Voinea fourth and Chiles fifth—the decision on medal allocation ultimately lies with the International Olympic Committee, which subsequently decided to reallocate the bronze medal to Bărbosu and ordered Chiles to return her medal.

Competitive history

Year	Event	Team	AA	VT	UB	BB	FX
Junior
2019	Petrom Cup		1
	Junior Romanian Championships		1
	Romanian Championships		3	4	7	6	3
	Romanian Individual Championships		1	2	1	1	1
	Swiss Cup Juniors	1	1
	Horizon Cup		1
	Top Gym	4	2		3	3	2
2020	Junior Romanian Championships		1	1	1	1	1
	Romanian Championships		2
	Junior European Championships	1	1	1	1	1	1
2021	Romanian Championships		2	4	1	7	2
	Top Gym Tournament		1		1	1
Senior
2022	City of Jesolo Trophy	4	14		8
	Osijek Challenge Cup					3	1
	European Championships		7		R3	8	4
	Romanian Championships		1
	Romgym Trophy	1	1
	Mersin Challenge Cup				1	1	1
	World Championships		20
2023	ESP-ROU-SWE Friendly	1
	European Championships	5	9		R3	R1	7
	RomGym Trophy	1	1		1	2
	Romanian Championships		1		1	4
	Heidelberg Friendly	2	1
	World Championships	10	23
2024
	European Championships	4		4
	RomGym Trophy		2	1
	Olympic Games	7	17				3

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