Doina Melinte

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Medal record
Doina Melinte
Women's Athletics
Competitor for  Romania
Olympic Games
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	800 m
Silver	1984 Los Angeles	1500 m
World Championships
Bronze	1987 Rome	1500 m

Doina Ofelia Melinte (born December 27, 1956 in Bacău) is a retired Romanian athlete.

She won gold medals over 1500 metres at the European Indoor Championships in 1985, 1988 und 1990, the latter race even being a European record time with 4:00.27. On the same day she set another new European record with 4:17.14 over the distance of 1 mile.

At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles she won a gold medal in 800 metres ahead of Kim Gallagher (silver) and countrywoman Fita Lovin (bronze) as well as the silver medal in 1500 metres behind Gabriella Dorio (gold) and ahead of another Romanian, Maricica Puica (Bronze).

She continued to win a 1500 m bronze medal at the 1986 European Championships, and a year later she set a new championship record with 4:05.68 at the 2nd World Indoor Championships and finished third at the outdoor World Championships. She tried to defend her World Indoor title in 1989, and won again with a new championship record of 4:04.79

[edit] External links

• IAAF profile for Doina Melinte

Sporting positions
Preceded by Lyudmila Veselkova	Women's 800m Best Year Performance 1982	Succeeded by Jarmila Kratochvílová
Preceded by Ella Kovács	Women's 800m Best Year Performance 1986	Succeeded by Sigrun Wodars
Preceded by Mary Slaney	Women's 1.500m Best Year Performance 1986	Succeeded by Tatyana Dorovskikh
Preceded by Paula Ivan	Women's 1.500m Best Year Performance 1990	Succeeded by Natalya Artyomova