Ilie Daniel Popescu (born 1 June 1983 in Reşiţa) 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 ...

n-born former

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 ...

. He is an Olympic Team bronze medallist (2004), a world silver medalist (2007/

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) and a European bronze medalist (2008/ Pommel Horse). He changed his nationality to German. He coaches several teams of the German gymnastics club TV Schwäbisch Gmünd Wetzgau, for which he also starts in the German Gymnastics League.

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* * * 1983 births Living people Romanian male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 2004 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Romania Olympic bronze medalists for Romania Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Reșița {{Romania-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub