Nicoleta Raluca Onel (born 8 March 1982) is a former
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artistic gymnast
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. She drew notice at national and international competitions in the mid-1990s, but was forced to retire early after a spinal injury.
Onel's gymnastics achievements included second-place finishes in the all-around at the 1995 European Junior Championships and the 1997 World Junior Championships.
Biography
Onel was born in
Ploieşti, Romania, and started gymnastics at the age of 6. Her first major international success came in 1995, when she placed second in the all-around at the European Junior Championships in Belgium. The following year, she was selected to train with the senior national team in
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. At the 1997 World Junior Championships, Onel won silver medals with the Romanian team and in the individual all-around. In 1998, Onel suffered a spinal injury and was advised to quit competitive gymnastics. She was hired as a gymnastics instructor at a local club in the Romanian capital, Bucharest. In 2001, she was offered a coaching position in the United Arab Emirates, at the
International School of Choueifat in
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Competitions and results
National competitions
:1991
:*Team: 1st place
:*Uneven bars: 2nd place
:1992
:*Uneven bars: 1st place
:*All-round: 2nd place
:1993
:*Uneven bars: 1st place
:*All-round: 2nd place
:*Team: 2nd place
:1994
:*Uneven bars: 1st place
:*All-round: 1st place
:*Floor: 2nd place
:*Horse vault: 3rd place
:1995
:*Beam: 1st place
:*Uneven bars: 2nd place
:*Floor: 2nd place
:*Horse vault: 2nd place
Regional competitions
:1995 (Hungary)
:*Team: 1st place
:*Uneven bars: 2nd place
:1996 (Bulgaria)
:*Team: 1st place
International competitions
:1995 (England)
:*Team: 1st place
:*All-round: 4th place
:1995 (Romania)
:*Team: 1st place
:*All-round: 3rd place
:1995 (Guatemala)
:*Team: 1st place
:*Beam: 1st place
:*All-round: 2nd place
:*Uneven bars: 2nd place
:*Floor: 2nd place
:1995 (Netherlands)
:*All-round: 5th place
:1996 (Germany)
:*Team: 1st place
:1997 (U.S.A)
:*Team: 3rd place
:1997 (Spain)
:*Team: 1st place
:1998 (U.S.A)
:*Team: 2nd place
European junior championships
:1995 (Belgium)
:*Team: 2nd place
:*Uneven bars: 2nd place
:1996 (England)
:*Team: 3rd place
World junior championships
:1997 (Japan)
:*Beam: 2nd place
:*Uneven bars: 2nd place
:*Floor: 2nd place
:*All-round: 2nd place
European youth Olympics
:1997 (Portugal)
:*All-round: 2nd place
External links
Nicoleta Onel official websiteNicoleta Onel on YouTube*
ttps://web.archive.org/web/20070929075042/http://home.intercity.or.jp/users/oefc/onel/97inj.html The World Junior Gymnastics Championships (Japan, 1997) website section dedicated to Nicoleta OnelAn animations website section dedicated to Nicoleta Onel*
ttp://www.romanian-gymnastics.com/profiles/others/onel_nicoleta.htm A webpage dedicated to Nicoleta Onel
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1982 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Ploiești
Romanian female artistic gymnasts