Viorica Susanu
Appearance
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Born | 29 October 1975 Galați, Romania | (age 49)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 76 kg (168 lb)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Viorica Susanu (born 29 October 1975[3] in Galați) is a Romanian rower and winner of four Olympic Gold medals.[4]
Susanu rowed in the Romanian women's eight that won the World Rowing Championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999, and the 2000 Summer Olympics. In 2001 and 2002, rowing with Georgeta Damian, she won the World Championships in the women's pair, setting a world's best time in 2002, while continuing to row in the eight. At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she won gold medals in both the pair and the eight, and in 2008 the pair.
Medals at Olympic Games
[edit]- 1st, Women's Eight[3]
- 1st, Women's Eight[3]
- 1st, Women's Pair[3]
- 1st, Coxless pair[3]
- 3rd, Women's Eight[3]
Medals at World Championships
[edit]- 1997
- 1998
- 1st, Women's Eight[5]
- 1999
- 1st, Women's Eight[5]
- 2001
- 2002
- 1st, Women's Pair[5]
- 2003
References
[edit]- ^ "Summer Olympics Athletes".
- ^ "Summer Olympics Athletes".
- ^ a b c d e f "Athlete – VIORICA SUSANU". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 8 September 2010.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Viorica Susanu Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Viorica Susanu at World Rowing
Categories:
- 1975 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Galați
- Olympic rowers for Romania
- Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Romania
- Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- Romanian female rowers
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- Romanian rowing biography stubs
- Romanian Olympic medalist stubs