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Nadia Comăneci – Selections from all of her routines – Montreal 1976 Olympics (overview) – The Olympic Channel, 2012; The Adorable Way This Olympic Couple First Met | Where Are They Now | Oprah Winfrey Network – Oprah Winfrey Network (U.S. TV channel), 2016; Nadia Comaneci & Bart Conner Commentate on Their Perfect Olympic Routines ...
Nadia Comăneci Romania: Nellie Kim Soviet Union: Ludmila Tourischeva Soviet Union: Team all-around details Soviet Union (URS) Maria Filatova Svetlana Grozdova Nellie Kim Olga Korbut Elvira Saadi Ludmila Tourischeva Romania (ROM) Nadia Comăneci Mariana Constantin Georgeta Gabor Anca Grigoraș Gabriela Trușcă Teodora Ungureanu East Germany (GDR)
Nadia Comăneci, who competed at the 1976 and 1980 Olympics, won nine total Olympic medals, the most of any Romanian female gymnast. [3] She won five medals in 1976, including golds in individual all-around, balance beam, and uneven bars. She also became the first woman to ever score a perfect 10 at the Olympics. In 1980, she won four more ...
Bela Karolyi coached Nadia Comaneci to the first Olympics perfect 10 and Mary Lou Retton to all-around gold. ... Karolyi shook up the sport in 1976, when he arrived at the Montreal Olympics with a ...
Nadia Comăneci poses beside the scoreboard that recorded her perfect 10 as 1.00 (with no Olympic precedent, the sign was incapable of displaying a 10.00).. A perfect 10 is a score of 10.000 for a single routine in artistic gymnastics, which was once thought to be unattainable—particularly at the Olympic Games—under the code of points set by the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG).
At age 14, Comaneci famously scored the first “perfect 10” in Olympic gymnastics. She earned six more perfect 10s at the 1976 Games in Montreal and helped solidify Karolyi as a powerhouse coach.
The following is a list of medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics, held in the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada from July 17 to August 1. ... Nadia Comăneci
She remains the only gymnast, male or female, to have won an Olympic gold medal in each individual event. [9] Nadia Comăneci, who competed for Romania in 1976 and 1980, won nine medals. In 1976, she became the first gymnast to earn a perfect 10 at the Olympic Games and eventually achieved that mark seven times during the Games.