Emilia Vătășoiu-Liță (born October 20, 1933) is a

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 ...

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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 competed at the

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

and

1964 Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...

Olympics and 1958 World Championships and won team bronze medals in 1956, 1958 and 1960. Vătășoiu took up gymnastics in 1951, and in 1954 was included to the national team. After retiring from competitions she worked as a gymnastics coach and international referee.

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* 1933 births Living people People from Vâlcea County Romanian female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts of Romania Olympic bronze medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 20th-century Romanian women {{Romania-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub