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Mirela Ana Pașca (born 19 February 1975) is a retired Romanian
artistic gymnast Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics in which athletes perform short routines on different types of apparatus. The sport is governed by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (FIG), which assigns the '' Code of Points'' used ...
, who competed internationally between 1990 and 1992. She is an Olympic silver medalist and a world bronze medalist with the team. Individually, she is a world bronze medalist and a European champion on uneven bars. She was also an uneven bars finalist at the 1992 Olympic Games.


Career

Mirela started to train for gymnastics at the age of 5 at the Baia-Mare Sport Club, under the direction of Adriana and Nelu Pop (who also coached Ludivine Furnon). In 1990 she joined the national Romanian team. In the same year she tied for gold on the
uneven bars The uneven bars or asymmetric bars is an artistic gymnastics apparatus. It is made of a steel frame. The bars are made of fiberglass with wood coating, or less commonly wood. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is UB or ...
with
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and Natalia Kalinina at the European Championships in Athens, Greece. At the 26th World Gymnastics Championships 1991, Indianapolis, United States she won bronze with the team and placed 8th in the all around event. Mirela also tied for the fourth place on the uneven bars with
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in a final in which the bronze medal was not rewarded. One year later she managed to win a bronze medal for uneven bars at the 1992 World Championships. Together with
Lavinia Miloșovici Lavinia Corina Miloșovici (, born 21 October 1976) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast.Jane Perlez (13 July 1995"Romanian Coach Keeps Up the Fight" ''New York Times'' Also known as "Milo" in the gymnastics community, Miloșovici is considere ...
, Gina Gogean, Cristina Bontaș, Vanda Hădărean, and Maria Neculiță, Mirela was a member of the Romanian team at the 1992 Summer Olympics Barcelona, Spain. In Barcelona she won silver with the team and tied for the fourth place for the uneven bars with
Lavinia Miloșovici Lavinia Corina Miloșovici (, born 21 October 1976) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast.Jane Perlez (13 July 1995"Romanian Coach Keeps Up the Fight" ''New York Times'' Also known as "Milo" in the gymnastics community, Miloșovici is considere ...
and Kim Gwang Suk.


Retirement

Mirela's last competition was the 1992 DTB cup. After that she graduated in physical education from the Bucharest Ecological University. During her studies she was a member of the aerobic gymnastics team of the university coached by Gineta Stoenescu. In 1996 she won the silver medal for individual women and for mixed pairs (together with her future husband Octavian Romas) at the first Romanian National Aerobic Gymnastics Championships. In 1997 she left for Spain to become the new gymnastics coach of the Real Grupo de Cultura Covadonga club, based in Gijon. Mirela returned to Romania to open in 2006 her own fitness and aerobic club.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Pasca, Mirela 1975 births Living people Romanian female artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts for Romania Olympic silver medalists for Romania Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships European champions in gymnastics Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Baia Mare