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Ioana Andreea Stănciulescu (born 18 February 2004) is a
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. She competed as a junior from 2017 to 2019. Stănciulescu won the floor exercise at the
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. She was the 2019 European Youth Olympic Festival team and floor exercise silver medalist and uneven bars bronze medalist. At the 2019 Romanian National Championships, she won the gold medal in the all-around.


Junior career


2017

In 2017, Stănciulescu made her junior elite debut, competing at the 2017 Nadia Comaneci Invitational. She was second in the all around (AA) with a score of 52.600 and helped win the team competition. Later that year she competed at the 2017 Romanian Championships. She won the bronze medal on the balance beam.


2018

In June, Stănciulescu went to the Gym Festival Trnava in
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, Slovakia where she placed 2nd in the AA with a score of 51.300. At that meet Stănciulescu also won silver medals on the uneven bars and balance beam. In July, Stănciulescu won the gold in the team competition at the Izvorani Friendly. She then had her biggest competition so far in
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, Scotland at the
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with teammates Silviana Sfiringu, Daniela Trică,
Antonia Duță Irina Antonia Duţă (born 8 October 2004) is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She was a member of the Romanian teams who competed at the inaugural Junior World Championships and who won silver at the 2020 European Championships. Junior career ...
, and Ana Maria Puiu. They finished 4th as a team. Stănciulescu finished the AA in 6th with a score of 51.732. She also made the floor final, where she won with a score of 13.433 to win that title back to back for Romania, after
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did the same in 2016. In October Stănciulescu was second in the all-around national competition at the age of 14, with a score of 53.300. There she also won the team competition for CS Farul Constanta with Sfiringu and
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. Due to injury she decided to skip the event finals.


2019

2019 was the last junior year for Stănciulescu. Her first competition was the 2019 FIT Challenge in
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, Belgium where she won gold with the junior team and silver with the seniors led by Golgotă. Stănciulescu also won the AA competition with a score of 52.432. At the 2019 Romanian Junior Championships Stănciulescu was second in the AA. In June at the
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in
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, Hungary, Stănciulescu and her teammates (Sfiringu and Duță) finished 4th despite having a total of six falls. Stănciulescu also made the beam and floor finals where she placed 5th and 8th. At the
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Stănciulescu was able to make all of the finals except balance beam. At that meet she won silver for team and floor and bronze for uneven bars. She also qualified 2nd to the AA final but finished 4th after having a fall on the balance beam. At the 2019 Romanian Championships (September 6 through September 8) in
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, Stănciulescu won the all around with a score of 55.400. At that meet she also won the team, vault, balance beam, and floor exercise gold medals and the uneven bars silver medal.


Senior career


2020

In 2020 Stănciulescu and teammates
Antonia Duță Irina Antonia Duţă (born 8 October 2004) is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She was a member of the Romanian teams who competed at the inaugural Junior World Championships and who won silver at the 2020 European Championships. Junior career ...
, Daniela Trică, and Silviana Sfiringu turned senior. In May the FRG announced that Stănciulescu, Sfiringu, and
Maria Holbură Maria Larisa Holbură (born 16 September 2000) is a former Romanian Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She represented Romania at the 2020 Summer Olympics and at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 2018 and 2019 World Artistic Gy ...
were moving to Izvorani, Romania to train with Liliana Cosma and Nicolae Forminte. In December Stănciulescu was selected to represent Romania at the
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alongside Duță, Sfiringu, Trică, and
Larisa Iordache Larisa Andreea Iordache (; born 19 June 1996) is a Romanians, Romanian former Artistic gymnastics, artistic gymnast. She represented Romania at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Romania at the 2012 Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal with the team, a ...
. During the team final, Stănciulescu fell twice on uneven bars to earn a 9.800, Romania's lowest score that day. Romania won the silver medal, narrowly finishing behind Ukraine. Individually Stănciulescu finished fifth in the vault final.


2021

In 2021 the Romanian team camp was moved to Bucharest in order to "create a better team spirit" and provide better medical care. Ioana was selected to compete at the 2021 European Championships where she would have a chance to qualify herself a nominative berth to the
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. However she and Silviana Sfiringu were later replaced due to injury. The executive committee of FRG reunited in May 2021 and voted to restructure the WAG team training. Duță and Stănciulescu decided to train in Bucharest with Iordache and Holbură (with coaches Lulu and Cristian Moldovan).


Competitive history


References

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