Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie

Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie
Daniela Şofronie
Full name Nicoleta Daniela Şofronie
Country represented  Romania
Born February 12, 1988 (1988-02-12) (age 23)
Constanţa, Romania
Discipline Women's artistic gymnastics
Club CSS Constanţa
Head coach(es) Octavian Belu
Assistant coach(es) Mariana Bitang
Former coach(es) Mirela Szemerjai
Retired 2005

Nicoleta Daniela Sofronie, (born February 12, 1988 in Constanţa, Romania) is a Romanian artistic gymnast.[1] She is an Olympic and a European gold medalist with the team. She is also an Olympic silver medalist of floor and the 2004 European all around silver medalist.

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Gymnastics career

She started gymnastics in 1992 in her hometown Constanţa and moved to Deva in 2002.[2] In 2003 she was an alternate to the team at the 2003 World Championships.[3] Practically an unknown gymnast before 2004, she burst out onto the international scene with a silver medal in the controversial all around final at the 2004 European Championships in Amsterdam. Şofronie score in the all around event was 0.38 points behind the score of Alina Kozich of Ukraine, one of the narrowest margins of victory in European history. After three rotations (vault, uneven bars and floor) Kozich was 0.137 points behind Şofronie. In the last rotation, the floor exercise, Şofronie did not receive the full credit for the dance connections that filled the gaps between acrobatics, which lowered the start value of her routine to 9.70. At the same time speculations were made that the A-panel head Lyubov Adrianova of Russia had influenced the elevation of Kozich’s start value from 9.90 to 10. Despite controversies, statements released by the European Gymnastics Union and the International Gymnastics Federations confirmed the decisions taken during the competition.[2] At the 2004 European Championships Şofronie also contributed to the team gold medal, the first time since 1998 that they had taken this title. A picture of her performing at these championships was on the cover of the 2004 June/July International Gymnast Magazine.[2]

Later that year she affirmed her position as a notable gymnast with strong performances at the 2004 Athens Olympics, helping the Romanian team to win the gold. She competed on vault, bars and floor in team finals, scoring 9.400, 9.562 and 9.562 respectively. Individually, Şofronie won silver on floor behind teammate Cătălina Ponor, placed fifth all around and sixth on uneven bars. Unusually for a Romanian gymnast, she was a strong bars worker and comparatively weak on beam. Following an underpar performance at the 2005 European Championships, Şofronie retired from the sport and pursued her education.

Retirement

After retirement she graduated her high school and university studies. She was for a short period a member of Romanian Golden Team – a gymnastics show set up by Marius Urzică. She also worked as a fitness instructor in her hometown Constanţa.

References

  1. ^ Sports Reference Daniela Şofronie
  2. ^ a b c International Gymnast Magazine, Ascension in Rotterdam, by John Crumlish, June/July 2004, page 10
  3. ^ Gymnastics Greats The Alternate

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