Maricica Puică
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Event | 1000–3000 m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 1000 m – 2:31.5 (1986) 1500 m – 3:57.22 (1984) 3000 m – 8:27.83 (1985)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Maricica Puică (née Luca on 29 July 1950) is a retired
Career
Puică was born in
Puică missed the 1983 World Championships due to injury, but returned in early 1984 to win her second World Cross Country Championship title. Then in the Summer, she won the inaugural 3,000 m title at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, a race remembered more for the collision of Mary Decker and Zola Budd. At those Games, she also won a bronze medal in the 1,500 m behind Italy's Gabriella Dorio and Romanian teammate Doina Melinte.[1]
In July 1986, at the London Grand Prix, she broke
Puica competed at her fourth and final Olympic Games in Seoul 1988, where she dropped out of her 3000 m heat with just 200 metres to go.[1]
In 1989, she spoke on Romanian television in support of the revolutionaries fighting against the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu. (However Nicolae Ceaușescu ignored the Soviet Union boycott of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, in contrast to the other East European countries.)
International competitions
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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Representing Romania | |||||
1976 | Olympic Games | Montreal, Canada
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heats | 1500 m | 4:12.62 |
1978 | World Cross Country Championships | Glasgow, Scotland | 3rd | ||
European Championships | Prague, Czech Republic
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4th | 3000 m | 8:40.9 | |
1980 | Olympic Games | Moscow, Russia
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7th | 1500 m | 4:01.26
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1981 | World Cup | Rome, Italy | 2nd | 3000 m | 8:55.80 |
1982 | European Indoor Championships | Milan, Italy
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2nd | 3000 m | 8:54.26 |
World Cross Country Championships | Rome, Italy
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1st | |||
European Championships | Athens, Greece
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4th | 1500 m | 3:59.31
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2nd | 3000 m | 8:33.33
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1984 | World Cross Country Championships | New York, United States | 1st | ||
Olympic Games | Los Angeles, United States
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3rd | 1500 m | 4:04.15
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1st | 3000 m | 8:35.96
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1986 | European Championships | Stuttgart, Germany
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5th | 1500 m | 4:03.90
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2nd | 3000 m | 8:35.92
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1987 | World Indoor Championships | Indianapolis, United States
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3rd | 3000 m | 8:47.92 |
World Championships | Rome, Italy
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2nd | 3000 m | 8:39.45 | |
1988 | Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea
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heats | 3000 m | DNF
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1989 | European Indoor Championships | The Hague, Netherlands
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3rd | 3000 m | 9:15.49 |
References
- ^ a b c Maricica Puică. Sports Reference
- ^ a b c Maricica Puică at World Athletics