Maricica Puică

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Medal record
Maricica Puică
Women's Athletics
Competitor for  Romania
Olympic Games
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	3000 m
Bronze	1984 Los Angeles	1500 m
World Championships
Silver	1987 Rome	3000 m

Maricica Puică (born July 29, 1950 in Iaşi) is a former Romanian former middle distance athlete, who won the 3000 meters gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, in a race remembered primarily for the collision of Mary Decker and Zola Budd.

In 1989 she spoke on Romanian television in support of the revolutionaries fighting against the regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu.

[edit] Reference

• IAAF profile for Maricica Puică

Sporting positions
Preceded by Yelena Sipatova	Women's 3.000m Best Year Performance 1981	Succeeded by Svetlana Ulmasova
Preceded by Grete Waitz	IAAF Women's World Cross Country Champion 1982	Succeeded by Grete Waitz
Preceded by Grete Waitz	IAAF Women's World Cross Country Champion 1984	Succeeded by Zola Budd

v • d • e Olympic champions in women's 3000 m and 5000 m 3000 m 1984: Maricica Puică · 1988: Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh · 1992: Yelena Romanova 5000 m 1996: Wang Junxia · 2000: Gabriela Szabo · 2004: Meseret Defar Note: In 1996, the 3000 m was replaced by the 5000 m.