Celestina Stefania Popa-Toma (born 12 July 1970) is a retired Romanian
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 ...
, who competed internationally between 1985 and 1988.
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Celestina Popa She is an Olympic silver medalist and a world gold and silver medalist with the team. She is best known for her eponymous straddle pike jump with full turn on floor
as well as for her flexibility and style.
Career
In 1984 Popa placed second at the Romanian Junior Nationals and she became a member of the national team. In 1985 she was a member of the silver medal winning team at the
1985 World Championships. Also in 1985, she was the all around champion, vault and beam gold medalist at the International Chunichi Cup in Japan.
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Together with ]Aurelia Dobre
Aurelia Dobre (born 16 November 1972) is a former artistic gymnast and the 1987 world all-around champion. She is the 1987 world champion on the balance beam and the bronze medalist on the vault and floor exercise, as well, and scored five pe ...
, Camelia Voinea
Camelia Voinea (born 1 March 1970) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast, who competed in international events between 1984 and 1988.[Eugenia Golea
Eugenia Golea (born 10 March 1971) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast, who competed in international events between 1984 and 1988.][Daniela Silivaș
Daniela Viorica Silivaș-Harper (; born 9 May 1972), is a Romanian former artistic gymnast best known for medaling in every single event at one Olympics, winning six medals (three gold, two silver, and one bronze) at the 1988 Summer Games in S ...]
and Ecaterina Szabo
Ecaterina Szabo ( hu, Szabó Katalin, ; born 22 January 1967) is a former Romanian artistic gymnast who won 20 Olympic, world and continental medals.
Szabo won gold medals in the 1984 Olympics in three individual events (vault, balance beam ( ...
, Popa was a member of the gold medal winning team at the 1987 World Championships in Rotterdam
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. In 1988 she won the silver medal with the team at the Olympics and placed tenth all around in the preliminaries.
Eponymous skill
Popa has one eponymous skill listed in the Code of Points.
Post retirement
After retiring from competitions in 1989 she studied at a sport school in Bucharest until 1991, and in 1994 graduated from university with a degree in physical education. She hold the National Romanian Coaching Certification Level III. Popa has been coaching since 1991, and since 1994 she has been a recreational coach at Flicka Gymnastics in North Vancouver, British Columbia
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, Canada.Maple Ridge, British Columbia
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, Canada.[
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References
External links
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List of competitive results at gymn-forum.net
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1970 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ploiești
Romanian female artistic gymnasts
Gymnasts at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic gymnasts of Romania
Olympic silver medalists for Romania
Olympic medalists in gymnastics
Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Originators of elements in artistic gymnastics
Romanian gymnastics coaches
Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics