Nadia Comaneci

Nadia Comaneci Drawing. (Nina Ilies students. ())

We group athletes, Teo, Rafael, Bogdan, Michael, Denisa, Maria and Ana Maria have chosen as a hero Nadia Comaneci, because we really like sports. Nadia Elena Comaneci is a Romanian gymnast and the first gymnast in the world to receive a perfect score of ten in an Olympic gymnastics competition.  She won five Olympic gold medals. She is considered one of the best athletes of the twentieth century and one of the best gymnasts in the world, ever.  The "Goddess of Montreal" was the first gymnast to score a perfect 10.  She was absolutely modern. She is the first Romanian athlete included in the Memorial International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.

My Hero Nadia Comaneci (Nina Ilies student ())

            At age 14, Comaneci became the star of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec. She not only became the first gymnast to score a perfect ten in Olympic competition (seven times), but also won three gold medals (the individual composite beam and parallel), a silver medal (team composed) and bronze (floor).

Our Hero Nadia Comaneci (Nina Ilies students. ())

             In 1999, Comaneci became the first athlete to be invited to speak at the United Nations to launch the Year 2000, the International Year of Volunteers. She is currently busy with gymnastics and charity work around the world.

In December 2003, she published his first book,  Letters To A Young Gymnast. Nadia created a charity clinic in Bucharest to help orphans in Romania.