Dorina Catineanu (born 20 January 1954) 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 female former
track and field
Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...
athlete who competed in the
long jump
The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...
. Her personal best was , set in Bucharest on 21 July 1974.
She was the gold medallist in the event at the
1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships
The 1975 European Athletics Indoor Championships were held in 1975 in Katowice, Poland.
The track used for these championships was 160 metres long. A two-lap relay race was organised over an unusual distance of 320 metres for each leg. This was th ...
– the second Romanian to win that title after
Viorica Viscopoleanu
Viorica Viscopoleanu (née Belmega on 8 August 1939) is a retired Romanian long jumper athlete. She competed at the 1964, 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1968, setting a new world record. At the European championships she won a si ...
. She was a silver medallist at the
1975 World University Championships.
World Student Games (Women)
GBR Athletics. Retrieved 2018-02-04. She also represented her country at the 1974 European Athletics Championships
The 11th European Athletics Championships of 1974 were held from 2 September to 8 September in Italy, at Rome's Stadio Olimpico. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald.
Men's results
Complete results were pu ...
, competing in the heats only.
International competitions
See also
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References
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Living people
1954 births
Romanian female long jumpers
Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
Universiade silver medalists for Romania
Medalists at the 1975 Summer Universiade