Eugenia Golea facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Eugenia Golea
Golea in the 1980s
Personal information
Country represented	Romania
Born	(1971-03-10) 10 March 1971 (age 54) Bucharest, Romania
Height	159 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team	1984–88 (ROM)
Head coach(es)	Adrian Goreac Maria Cosma Octavian Bellu Adrian Stan
Former coach(es)	Mihai Demetrescu Lucia Marcu
Medal record Olympic Games Silver 1988 Seoul Team competition World Championships Gold 1987 Rotterdam Team competition Silver 1985 Montreal Team competition Silver 1987 Rotterdam Vault European Championships Silver 1987 Moscow Beam Bronze 1987 Moscow Vault

Eugenia Golea (born March 10, 1971) is a Romanian artistic gymnast who used to compete in big international events. She competed from 1984 to 1988.

Eugenia is famous for getting a perfect score of 10 on the vault. This happened during the team competition at the 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. She was also the first gymnast to do two difficult 'layout stepout' jumps in a row. She helped her team win important medals. These included an Olympic silver medal, a world championship gold medal, and another world silver medal. Eugenia liked all gymnastics events. However, she was especially good at vault and floor exercises. She won a world silver medal and a European bronze medal on vault. She also won a European silver medal on the balance beam.

Gymnastics Career

Eugenia Golea started her gymnastics training at School Club No. 2 in Bucharest. Her first coaches were Lucia Marcu and Mihai Demetrescu. Later, she joined Romania's national gymnastics team in Deva. There, she trained with coaches Adrian Gorean, Adrian Stan, and Maria Cosma.

She began competing as a senior gymnast in international events in 1984. Eugenia did really well at the 1984 Balkan Championships. She helped her team win first place and finished third overall. However, she was not chosen for the 1984 Olympic team that year.

In 1985, Eugenia was part of the team that won a silver medal. This was at the World Championships in Montreal.

In 1987, Eugenia Golea was on the team that won the gold medal. This happened at the 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Her teammates included Aurelia Dobre, Camelia Voinea, Celestina Popa, Daniela Silivaș, and Ecaterina Szabo. During the vault part of the team finals, both Aurelia Dobre and Eugenia Golea received perfect 10s from the judges. Eugenia was also one of three gymnasts to perform a difficult vault called the double twisting Yurchenko at the World Championships that year. She also won a silver medal for her individual vault performance. She finished just behind Elena Shushunova.

At the 1987 European Championships in Moscow, she won two more individual medals. She earned a silver medal on the balance beam and a bronze medal on the vault. After winning a silver medal with her team at the 1988 Summer Olympics, Eugenia decided to retire from gymnastics.

Life After Gymnastics

After retiring from gymnastics, Eugenia joined her brother. They performed together in an acrobatic circus act. In 1991, she moved to Puerto Rico. There, she continued to work for a circus. She also helped coach the Puerto Rican gymnastics team.

Later, Eugenia Golea moved to the United States. She started working as a gymnastics coach and choreographer. She coached at American Gymnastics in Bedford Hills, New York. She also coached at the YWCA in White Plains, New York.