Steliana Nistor
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Mihaela Stănuleţ, Raluca Bugner, Livia Ponoran[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Music | "Happy Valley" by Vanessa Mae | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retired | 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Steliana Nistor (born 15 September 1989) is a Romanian former
Early gymnastic career
Steliana began gymnastics at the age of five, at the gymnastics club CSS Sibiu
Senior career
2005 - 2006
Since 2005, Steliana has been a member of the senior national gymnastic team. Unfortunately she was sidelined for nearly six months with back and knee injuries and she did not compete at all in 2005. It was only after an intensive rehabilitation process that she was able to return, and Nistor sometimes wore a protective brace on her right knee.
2007
In 2007, she had several successful international meets. In the qualification round of the 2007 European Championships,
At the
Besides the European and World championships she competed at various world cup events. She won the Swiss Cup mixed pair event with Flavius Koczi, medaled gold on bars and bronze on floor at the Glasgow Gand Prix and won gold on beam and floor and bronze on bars at the Ghent World Cup[10]
2008 and the Olympics
In 2008, she competed at the European Championships in Clermond-Ferrand, France. She qualified second and fifth on beam and uneven bars finals, respectively and placed ten on floor and vault.[15] She won gold with the team, silver on the uneven bars and after a fall she placed 6th on beam finals.[16] Had there been a senior all around competition, Steliana would have won the title with her 60.700, highlighted by a 15.400 on bars (toe-on-1 and 1/2 to Jaeger; toe-on-Tkatchev-Pak) and 15.800 on beam (flip-flop full).[17] A picture of her performing on the floor exercise at these European Championships appeared on the cover of May 2008 International Gymnastics Magazine.[18]
The 2008 Romanian Nationals coincided with Nistor's exams, so she juggled a full competition with her studies. Nistor won the all-around and two events and scored 10s on Romanian language and literature, English and Sports. Her final average was 8.95, placing her among the top ten students in Deva. The process, Nistor told Prosport, was "draining," and she only competed bars at a dual meet with Italy the following week to give her mind and body a rest.[19]
Together with
Retirement
After retirement from gymnastics she studied physical education, sports, and coaching in her hometown of Sibiu and was a representative of sportswear products. After graduation she went to Norway to work as a gymnastics coach, first at Drammen Turn club and then at Hammer Turn club in Fjellhamar.[22]
Skills
Nistor skills included a handspring to back full on balance beam, as well as a front flip to Arabesque. On bars, she performed a toe-on reverse hecht (called a Ray) to a Pak salto.[2]
Floor Music
2006 Ritual fire dance from "El amor brujo" by Manuel de Falla
References
- ^ Woga Gymnastics Women's Gymnastics Team Coaches: Livia Ponoran
- ^ a b c “Bio of gymnast Steliana Nistor by Amy Van Deusen”
- ^ “Steliana Nistor: unofficial website”
- ^ “Gymnastics Results: 25th European Championships Women’s Junior Artistics Gymnastics”
- ^ "Gymnastic results: 2006 European Artistic Gymnastics Women Senior"
- ^ Gymn Forum Results 2006 Romanian Nationals
- ^ International Gymnast Magazine Forminte has faith in world team, September 24, 2006
- WikipediaWorld Artistic Gymnastics Championships Women's Team All Around
- ^ "Gymnastics results: 39th Women's Artistic Gymnastics World Championships"
- ^ a b Steliana Nistor Unofficial Website Results
- ^ Gymn Forum Results European Championships
- ^ "Gymnastics Results: 2nd European Individual Ghampionships Artistic Gymnastics Women"
- ^ "Gymnastics Results: 40th Women's Artistic Gymnastics World Championships"
- ^ Gymn Forum Rusults 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Women's Team Finals
- ^ Gymnastics Results 2008 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- ^ "International GYMNAST Magazine", Four nations golden as Europeans conclude, Amanda Turner
- ^ International Gymnast Magazine Clermont-Ferrand erupts, IG staff, page 22 May 2008 ISSN 0891-6616
- ^ International Gymnast Magazine (Cover) May 2008 ISSN 0891-6616
- ^ "NBC Olympics:Athletes "
- ^ International Gymnast Magazine Golden girls. China handily topped the U.S. to win its first Olympic team title, Amanda Turner, October 2008
- ^ "Gymnastics Results: Olympic Games"
- ^ International Gymnastics Magazine, "Nistor in Norway", by John Crumlish, January 2012, page 10