Kyra Lazarovici
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Kyra Lazarovici (born July 20, 1991) is a gymnast from Romania.
Lazarovici has made many important achievements in her career as a gymnast, the highlights include the 2003 World Championships, 2004 European Gymnastics Championships and 2004 Summer Olympics, both of which she was a gold medalist.
She started training for gymnastics when she was six years old, got into the Romanian Gymnast team in 2002, she won individual balance beam and floor exercise medals.
She was part of an immensely successful Romanian women's gymnastics team (four golds, one silver and one bronze in six events) that also included Oana Ban, Monica Rosu, Silvia Stroescu, Daniela Sofronie and Alexandra Eremia. Though the team members were less experienced than most of their rivals, the Romanians hit every routine to take the team gold by a comfortable margin. World champions the USA were second, and the Russians led by Svetlana Khorkina took the bronze.
Lazarovici was selected to move to Deva in Romania, the location of the training facility for the Romanian National Gymnastics Team in 2002, after national team coachs Octavian Belu and Mariana Bitang discovered her during a training under her coachs surveillance in Constanţa.
The next year Lazarovici was selected for the team for the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim, U.S., where she won a silver medal with the Romanian team, as well as individual silver medals on balance beam and floor.
Lazarovici followed up her performance at the European Championships by capturing ttwo gold medals on the same events (team, balance beam) at the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece: a gold in every event she entered, unprecedented in Olympic gymnastics.
