Andreea Maria Iridon (born 23 November 1999 in

Tilișca Tilișca (german: Tilischen; hu, Tilicske) is a commune in Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania, in the Cindrel Mountains, west of the county capital Sibiu, in the Mărginimea Sibiului Mărginimea Sibiului ( hu, Szeben-Hegyalja) is an area whi ...

) is a former

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different apparatuses. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which designs the Code of Points and regulates ...

. She won a silver on balance beam and a bronze on uneven bars at the 2015 European Games. At the 2014 Junior European Championships Iridon won silvers on beam and floor, and a bronze with the team.

Personal life

Iridon's family lives in Tilişca, but she trained in

Deva, Romania Deva (; Hungarian: ''Déva'', Hungarian pronunciation: ; German: ''Diemrich'', ''Schlossberg'', ''Denburg''; Latin: ''Sargetia''; Turkish: ''Deve'', ''Devevar'') is a city in Romania, in the historical region of Transylvania, on the left bank o ...

. Iridon's favorite events are

floor A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many layered surfaces made with modern technology. Floors may be stone, wood, bamboo, metal or any other material that can support the expected load ...

and

beam Beam may refer to: Streams of particles or energy *Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy **Laser beam *Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles **Charged particle beam, a spatially localized grou ...

, . Her goal in gymnastics was to go to the Olympics and win a gold medal on bars.

Junior career

2013

Iridon's international debut was at a friendly meet with Germany and the United States. She placed third with the Romanian team and tenth in the all-around. In July, Iridon competed at the

2013 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival The 2013 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival was held in Utrecht, Netherlands, between 14 and 19 July 2013. Sports There were contested nine sports: Venues Schedule The competition schedule for the 2017 European Youth Olympic Summer Fest ...

with teammates

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and

Silvia Zarzu Silvia Andreea Zarzu (born 16 December 1998) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. She was part of the Romanian team that won the gold medal in the team event at the 2014 European Championships and placed fourth at the 2014 World Championship ...

, and they won a bronze medal. Individually, she tied with Claire Martin of France for the bronze on beam. She finished fourth on floor, just 0.1 behind her teammate

. At the Japan Junior International, Iridon won a silver medal on bars behind

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. At the Romanian National Championships she won a bronze in the all-around behind

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and Andreea Munteanu. She won a bronze on uneven bars, and she finished sixth on balance beam. At the Japan Junior International, Iridon won a silver medal on bars behind

. In October, she competed at the Romanian Junior National Championships, she won gold on bars and beam but finished twentieth in the all-around.

2014

Iridon competed at the

City of Jesolo Trophy The City of Jesolo Trophy is an annual women's gymnastics competition held in Jesolo, Italy. There are competitions for the senior division and junior division. The United States won the senior team competition every year from 2010 to 2017.

where she won a silver medal with the Romanian team by contributing on bars and beam. She won the bronze medal on beam with a 14.300. She competed in the France-Romania-Belgium Tri-Friendly meet where she won team and all-around gold. In May, Irdion competed at the European Championships. She contributed scores on all events towards Romania's bronze medal finish. In the all-around final, she finished 6th with a total of 53.933. She won a silver medal in the balance beam final behind

Angelina Melnikova Angelina Romanovna Melnikova ( rus, Ангели́на Рома́новна Ме́льникова, , ɐnɡʲɪˈlʲinə ˈmʲelʲnʲɪkəvə; born 18 July 2000) is a Russian artistic gymnast. With eleven Olympic and World medals, she is the jo ...

with a score of 14.433. She tied for the silver medal in the floor final with British gymnast

Amy Tinkler Amy Tinkler (born 27 October 1999) is a retired British Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She is the Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's floor, 2016 Olympic floor exercise bronze medallist and the 2015 British all-around cha ...

. At the Romanian National Championships, Iridon won a bronze medal in the all-around behind

and

Ștefania Stănilă Alina Ștefania Stănilă (born 27 December 1997) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. She was part of the Romanian team that won the gold medal in the team event at the 2014 European Championships. Career Junior Stănilă competed at t ...

. She won a silver on the uneven bars behind

, and she finished third on beam behind Andreea Munteanu and

Senior career

2015

Andreea competed at Trofeo Torino 4 Nazioni where she placed 3rd with the Romanian team after Russia and Italy. In June she was selected to compete at the 2015 European Games and helped Romanian team finish in 7th place. She placed 3rd on uneven bars with 12.800 after she fell and 2nd on balance beam with 14.000, behind

Lieke Wevers Lieke Wevers (born 17 September 1991) is a Dutch artistic gymnast. She was the first Dutch woman to win a European title in gymnastics: at the 2015 European Games, she won the gold medal on the balance beam and was the bronze medalist with the D ...

. She also qualified in the all-around final, but was replaced by

2016

Iridon's final competition was the Belgium Friendly where the Romanian team finished second to Belgium. Andreea Iridon announced her retirement following Romania's failure to qualify a full team to the

2016 Olympic Games ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...

Competitive History

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Iridon, Andreea 1999 births Living people Romanian female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games European Games medalists in gymnastics European Games bronze medalists for Romania European Games silver medalists for Romania People from Sibiu County 21st-century Romanian women