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| Full name | Larisa Andreea Iordache | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | June 19, 1996 Bucharest |
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| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | junior | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | CSS Dinamo | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Gheorghe Orban | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Lacramioara Moldovan, Claudiu Moldovan, Ramona Micu, Adela Popa | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Daniel Nistor, Aurica Nistor | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Corina Dorean | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Larisa Iordache (born June 19, 1996, in Bucharest, Romania) is a Romanian junior artistic gymnast. She won four medals at the 2010 European Championships (one gold, two silver, and one bronze) and six medals at the 2011 European Youth Olympic Festival (three gold and three silver).[1][2][3] Her favorite events are the floor and the balance beam.
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Iordache started to train for gymnastics at CSS Dinamo Club in Bucharest at the age of four and a half. In 2008 she became a member of the national junior team were she trained with coaches Ramona Micu, Adela Popa, Cristian Moldovan and Lacramioara Moldovan.[4] She had a successful gymnast career medaling at various international competitions.
In 2009 she won the prestigious Top Gym Trophy. At the same competition she won gold on beam, bronze with the team, and placed seventh in the uneven bars final.[5] The series of successes continued at the 2010 Romanian International Championships where her scores on beam and on floor were the highest of all the gymnasts, including the senior ones.[6] Later that year she was a member of the junior team at the 2010 European Championships. Here she tied for gold on floor with Anastasia Grishina, won silver on beam and with the team, and bronze all around, and placed fourth on vault.[1]
In 2011 she won several all around titles at international competitions such as the Gym-Festival of Trnava (59.500) and a dual meet against Great Britain (58.300), and she scored 58.800 to lead the Alliance Dijon Gym 21 club to first place at the French championships[2]. The highlight of the year was the win of six medals at the 2011 European Youth Olympic Festival among which three gold medals (all around, beam, and floor) and three silver medals (team, uneven bars, and vault).[2][3]