Christiana was raised in Bucharest, Romania, born from a professional bowling player (mother) and a jujitsu martial artist (father). She had an early start in both martial arts and painting, her second profession, when her parents observed her talents since she was only three years old. She began her career in combat sports at age 9 while painting in the same complex in the capital, the father of one of her colleagues painting being a martial arts coach. She retired from her Kyokushin karate career after 9 glamorous years, to begin developing in the art of Kempo, and then start her Kickboxing and MMA career, being the first woman in Romania to ever enter a cage and win and international World Title under Igor Vovchanchyn. Later, Christiana would also pursue her boxing career.[2]
Fighting career
Kyokushin & Sei Budokai career
2004 Kyokushin National Championship in Bucharest, Romania -45 kg Silver Medalist
2005 Sei Budokai National Championship in Bucharest, Romania -45 kg Gold Medalist
2006 Sei Budokai International Cup in Constanta, Romania -55 kg Gold Medalist
2006, 2007, 2008 Sei Budokai National Championship in Bucharest Romania -55 kg Gold Medalist
2007 Kyokushin National Championship Kumite & Kata in Bucharest, Romania -55 kg Gold Medalist
2007 Kyokushin World Women's Championships in Chiba, Japan -55 kg 8th place
2008 Kyokushin National Championship Kumite in Bucharest, Romania -60 kg Gold Medalist
2008 Kyokushin National Championship Kata in Constanta, Romania Silver Medalist
2008 European Kyokushin Championships in Varna, Bulgaria Bronze Medalist
2009 Kyokushin National Championship Kumite in Bucharest Romania -65 kg Gold Medalist
2009 World Women's Championships Kyokushin Karate in Chiba, Japan
Kickboxing career
SUPERKOMBAT Fighting Championship career
On February 26, 2015 it was announced that will compete in the first ever women's fight in SUPERKOMBAT history, bout scheduled March 7 against Annalisa Bucci at SUPERKOMBAT World Grand Prix I 2015 in Ploiești, Romania.[3]
Along with her spouse, Christiana has created the Societies Magazine, a cultural magazine in Romania, with a general view over the Romanian society and the foreign societies Romania is interacting.
Also, she is the general editor for Sport Revolution Magazine, the best sports magazine in Romania.
Asian Games, Turkmenistan 2017.
Christiana was a special reporter for the Indoor and Martial Arts Games, held in Ashgabad, Turkmenistan.
Motivational Speeches
She has been invited to speak in different events about her success story both life and sport. Because of her great speaking talent she influences in a positive way many people. Since 2015, she has been invited to the TEDxTalks stage and becomes a professional speaker, inspiring people from everywhere through this unique combination of professions and intellectual concerns alike.
Painting
She became a graduate in theology, Sacred Art, Iconographic Painting, with the work "The three ways of worship of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist Luke", for which she obtained the grade A. She supports her sports activity by painting, her works being sold in her native country and abroad.
In 2022 she opened her first personal painting exhibition called "One way" having an amazing critics review and selling all her paintings
-2021 Best Pro Fighter Thaiboxing Fight4KO WMC Thailand
Filmography
TERCHONO
She is noticed by the world of cinema, and in 2015 she films her first action role, the first music video in which she is the protagonist and obtains a contract as a stunt double for the main actress in an international film. In 2021, together with her husband, the historian and sports journalist, Octavian Budică, she is filming an independent project, Ter Chono - a Mongolian story, a short historical film that managed to collect international awards all over the world, in which Christiana plays the main role, that of the Mongolian warrior princess, Ter Chono. The film is based on an idea by Octavian Budică, who also produced the movie.
