Florența Crăciunescu
Romanian athlete
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Birth name | Florența Ionescu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Florența Țacu-Crăciunescu | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1955-05-07)7 May 1955 Craiova, Romania[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 8 June 2008(2008-06-08) (aged 53)[2] Bucharest, Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 84 kg (185 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Discus throw, shot put | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | CSM Craiova CSA Steaua București[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Ionel Ghita Dan Serafim[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | DT – 69.50 m (1985)[4] SP – 18.06 m (1983i)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Florența Crăciunescu (later Ionescu, then Țacu, 7 May 1955 – 8 June 2008) was a Romanian athlete. She won a bronze medal in the discus throw at the 1984 Olympics, finishing sixth in 1980; in 1984 she also placed eighth in the shot put. Her elder sister Carmen Ionesco competed in the same events for Canada at the 1984 Olympics.[1]
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Summer Universiade champions in women's discus throw
- 1959: Györgyi Hegedus (HUN)
- 1961–1963: Tamara Press (URS)
- 1965: Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek (HUN)
- 1967: Liesel Westermann (FRG)
- 1970: Karin Illgen (GDR)
- 1973: Faina Melnik (URS)
- 1975–1977: Mariya Vergova (BUL)
- 1979: Svetlana Melnikova (URS)
- 1981–1983: Florența Crăciunescu (ROM)
- 1985: Maritza Martén (CUB)
- 1987: Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)
- 1989: Hou Xuemei (CHN)
- 1991: Xiao Yanling (CHN)
- 1993: Renata Katewicz (POL)
- 1995–1997: Natalya Sadova (RUS)
- 1999: Nicoleta Grasu (ROM)
- 2001: Li Qiumei (CHN)
- 2003: Natalya Fokina-Semenova (UKR)
- 2005: Wioletta Potępa (POL)
- 2007: Yarelys Barrios (CUB)
- 2009: Dani Samuels (AUS)
- 2011: Żaneta Glanc (POL)
- 2013: Vera Ganeeva (RUS)
- 2015: Yuliya Maltseva (RUS)
- 2017: Kristin Pudenz (GER)
- 2019: Daisy Osakue (ITA)
- 2021: Antonia Kinzel (GER)
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