Nadia Comaneci, the “Montreal Goddess”, the Romanian multiple Olympic, World and European champion, who wrote the history of world gymnastics by achieving the first perfect ten, turned 61 on Saturday.

The former gymnast was also congratulated by the Olympic and Sports Committee of Romania. The great champion published a video on Facebook in which she writes that she spends time with her family at gymnastics.

“For every curb that became a beam, for every strip of carpet that became uneven parallels, for the carpet that turned into dirt, and for every obstacle that a child overcame, for all the dreams you inspired, and every soul you touched you touched, THANK YOU!” , is a COSR message.

Nadia Comaneci, the first gymnast to get a 10

Nadia Comaneci, born November 12, 1961, started gymnastics at the age of 5, was selected by coach Marcel Duncan and enrolled at AS Flacăra Oneşti.

She was coached by Bela and Marta Karoli from 1971, and at the age of 11 she won her first title of absolute national champion. Six months later, he competed in the “Masters” category, where he took third place.

In 1974, he achieved his first major success abroad, winning 1st place in the individual team at the “Friendship Cup” competition in Gehr (German Democratic Republic).

A rapid rise followed, culminating in the results obtained in the 1976 Montreal Olympics, an edition of the Olympic Games that went down in sports history as the “Nadia Comaneci Olympics”, after Nadia scored seven points out of 10 (the first ever official gymnastics competition) and set an “absolute record”: 20 points, on uneven parallel bars (according to the then scoring code), writes cosr.ro.

Nadia Comaneci won five medals in Montreal: three golds in the individual events, bars and parallel bars, one silver with the Romanian team and one bronze on the floor.

After 1977, Nadia trained in Bucharest with coaches Josip Hidi, Gheorghe Kondovici, Atanasia Alba (September 1977 – August 1988), Gheorghe Gorgoi, Anka Grigorash (April 1980 – August 1981).

Nadia Comaneci won the first balance beam world title for Romanian gymnastics and two silver medals, vault and team, at the 1978 World Championships in Strasbourg.

In 1979, at the World Championships in Fort Worth (USA), Nadia, as part of the Romanian gymnastics team, won the first world team champion title in the history of gymnastics (389.550 points).

She won the title of continental champion three times in a row and finally took possession of the “European Cup”, becoming the first gymnast to do so.

In 1975 he won the “Champions Trophy” in London, and in 1979 at the “World Championships” held in Tokyo, he took first place in the floor and vault, second on the beam and third in the individual complex. In 1981, at the Bucharest Universiade, Nadia won five gold medals.

He retired from competition in 1984, having won 25 medals at the Olympic Games, World and European Championships, of which 16 were gold.

The International Federation of Gymnastics (FIG) scoring code for the uneven bars includes two elements called the “descent” and “spring vault”.

Nadia Comaneci immigrated to the United States in November 1989

In November 1989, Nadia emigrated to the United States of America, then to Canada, after which she returned to the United States and settled in Oklahoma. She married Bart Conner, an American gymnast and Olympic champion. They have a son, Dylan Paul, who was born in 2006.

In 1996, she was elected honorary president of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation (FRG). The US Women’s Sports Foundation (WSF), which annually honors women for outstanding achievements in sports, awarded her the “Flo Hyman Award” in 1998. In addition, Nadia and her outstanding performances were included in the “Hall of Fame” of world gymnastics.

After the Olympics in Montreal, he became an honorary master of sports. In 1984, the International Olympic Committee awarded him the “Olympic Silver Order” for outstanding services in the field of sports and outstanding services to the Olympic cause.

He received the “Olympic Necklace” from the Romanian Olympic Committee. In 2000, he was awarded the national order “Star of Romania” in the rank of commander, according to News.ro.