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Nadia Comăneci

Gymnastics· Romania· 1970s

Nadia Comăneci

Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner is a Romanian retired gymnast.

Overall rating
1338
±569
Overall rank
provisional
Gymnastics rating
1338
1 same-sport
Record
0–1
1 matchups

Rating history

1500
07-2607-2707-28

The record book

Beaten most

Opponents this athlete has taken the most votes from.

No wins yet.

Nemesis

Ranked by how far below expectation the results fell, not by raw losses — losing to a clear favourite says less than losing to someone the ratings said you should beat.

Signature win

The victory the ratings least expected, scored from the state at the moment of the vote.

No wins yet.

The crowd's verdict

How this athlete performs against what the ratings expected, and whether the crowd treats them differently outside their own sport.

As favourite
never favoured
As underdog
never an underdog
In sport
01
Cross-sport
00

Achievements

  • BBC World Sport Star of the Year
  • Hero of Socialist Labour of Romania
  • Associated Press Athlete of the Year
  • Silver Olympic Order
  • International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
  • Silver Olympic Order
  • Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame
  • BBC 100 Women

Background

Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner is a Romanian retired gymnast. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976, at age 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. At the same Games, she earned six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Comăneci won two more gold medals and achieved two more perfect 10s. During her career, Comăneci won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals.

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