Claudia Presecan

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Olympic medal record
Women's Artistic Gymnastics
Gold	2000 Sydney	Team Competition

Claudia Presecan (born December 28, 1979 in Sibiu) is a world-class Romanian gymnast. She competed for her country from 1994 to 2000, winning a gold medal in the team competition at the 2000 Olympics, having missed the 1996 Olympics due to a broken hand. It was later revealed that she had been diagnosed with anemia prior to the 2000 Olympics, but had competed regardless. After retiring from gymnastics in 2000, she had a brief career in rowing.

In 2002, she, along with former teammates Corina Ungureanu and Lavinia Milosovici, sparked controversy by posing naked in photographs for a Japanese photobook, LCC Gold ISBN 4-87279-118-5, and performing gymnastics routines topless for the Japanese DVDs Gold Bird and Euro Angels. A number of photographs from the photobook and DVDs were subsequently published in the Japanese magazine Shukan Gendai. An edited version of the DVDs entitled 3 Gold Girls was released in Germany in 2004. The DVDs proved controversial as some of the scenes and publicity material featured the gymnasts in their official Romanian team leotards. It later emerged that they had not been aware of the contractual obligation to wear their official leotards until they began filming [1]. For this, she and her former teammates were banned from coaching or judging in Romania for five years, from 2002 to 2007.

She is currently working as a coach in England

[edit] Major Results

1994 Junior Europeans: 7th AA, 4th V, 1st FX

1994 World Team Championships: 1st team

1995 World Championships: 1st team

1997 International Team Championships: 1st team

1997 Romanian National Championships: 1st AA, 1st UB, 3rd BB, 2nd FX

1997 World Championships: 1st team, 8th AA, 5th UB, 6th FX

1998 Women's Artistic Championships: 2nd team

1998 International Team Championships: 2nd team

1998 European Championships: 1st Team, 3rd AA, 3rd UB

1998 Romanian National Championships: 1st BB

1999 International Team Championships: 1st team

2000 Romanian National Championships: 5th AA, 2nd BB

2000 Olympic Games: 1st T, 4th BB

Key: AA: all-around; BB: balance beam; FX: floor exercise; UB: uneven bars; VT: vault

[edit] External links

• Bio at romanian-gymnastics.com
• Her biography at gymbox.net
• Her biography at Gymnastica
• Article about her illness before the 2000 Olympics
• Article about her rowing career
• SportsIllustrated article about the DVD controversy