Iuliana Paleu (born September 30, 1990 in
Bicaz
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,
Neamț) is a Romanian sprint canoeist.
Paleu is a member of the canoe and kayak team for
CS Dinamo București, and is coached and trained by Iuan Sipos.
[
Paleu represented ]Romania
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at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London
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, where she competed in the women's K-2 500 metres. Paleu and her partner Irina Lauric paddled to an eighth-place finish and sixteenth overall in the B-final. They were nineteen hundredths of a second (0.19) behind the Russian pair of Natalia Lobova and Vera Sobetova, who posted a time of 1:52.468.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile
1990 births
Romanian female canoeists
Living people
Olympic canoeists of Romania
Canoeists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
People from Neamț County
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