Anca Măroiu

Anca Măroiu
Personal information
Full name Anca Băcioiu-Măroiu
Born 5 August 1982
Craiova, Romania
Weapon(s) épée
Hand right-handed
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Weight 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st)
National coach(es) Dan Podeanu
Club Steaua București
Assistant coach(es) Gheorghe Epurescu
FIE Ranking current ranking

Anca Măroiu (née Băcioiu, born August 5, 1983 in Craiova) is a Romanian épée fencer. She is double team world championin 2010 and 2011, silver medallist in the 2012 European Fencing Championships and three-time European team champion (2006, 2009 and 2011).

Career

Măroiu first took up gymnastics, but found herself too tall in primary school.[1] She switched to fencing, learning under Nicolae Mihăilescu, then Mircea Alecu. Being of a combative temperament, she chose épée, the weapon of the duel.[2] When she was 14 years old she was selected into the national training centre for juniors within the Petrache Trișcu sports high school in Craiova under Dan Podeanu's coaching.

She won in 2002 the team bronze medal at the Junior European Championships in Conegliano. At the 2006 European Championships in İzmir she reached the semifinals, where she was defeated by Germany's Claudia Bokel and came away with a bronze medal.[3] In the team event, Romania overcame the Czech Republic, Estonia and Russia. They defeated Hungary by a single hit in the final, winning the first European title in the history of Romanian épée fencing.[4] They won again the European Championships again in 2009 and 2011.

With Ana Maria Brânză, Loredana Dinu and Simona Gherman, Măroiu won the 2010 World Championships in Paris after they defeated Germany in the final. The following year, she reached the semifinals, but lost on priority to Li Na of China. In the team event Romania retained their crown after prevailing over China in the final.[5]

In 2012 Măroiu reached the final at the European Championships in Legnano. She could not win against teammate Gherman and came away with a silver medal. She competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics.[6] After seeing off Ukraine's Olena Kryvytska and Russia's Anna Sivkova she fell to South Korea's Shin A-lam in the quarter-finals. In the team event, top seed Romania suffered a surprise defeat to South Korea and finished sixth after the placement matches. After this failure she, Gherman and Dinu decided to take a break in their career to look after their family.[7]

In 2014 Măroiu gave birth to a son, Petre Luca.[8] She announced in early 2015 her return to competition.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Andru Nenciu (24 October 2011). "Anca Măroiu a abandonat gimnastica pentru că era prea înaltă! «Eu sunt cea mai liniștită»" (in Romanian). ProSport.
  2. ↑ Cătălin Ciortan (22 March 2007). "Anca voia să se apuce de matematică" (in Romanian). Expresul de Sud.
  3. ↑ "Săbii de bronz pentru români" (in Romanian). Adevărul. 7 July 2006.
  4. ↑ Vlad Ionescu (10 July 2006). "Doi campioni la Europenele de scrima" (in Romanian). 9am News.
  5. ↑ Mirela Basescu, Andru Nenciu (16 October 2011). "România a câștigat titlul mondial la spadă feminin în fața Chinei după o finală dramatică!" (in Romanian). ProSport.
  6. ↑ "Anca Măroiu Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2012-06-06.
  7. ↑ "Ana-Maria Brânză încearcă să-și convingă colegele să nu se retragă" (in Romanian). Dolce Sport. 1 February 2013.
  8. ↑ Mirela Basescu (10 February 2015). "Cu copiii la antrenamente. Super mămicile din scrima românească, Gherman şi Măroiu trag pentru Rio 2016". ProSport (in Romanian).
  9. ↑ "Se reface cvartetul de spadă pentru Rio" (in Romanian). ProSport. 10 January 2015.

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