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Lăcrămioara (Filip) Moldovan
Lăcrămioara (Filip) Moldovan
Nickname(s)	Lulu
Born	4 April 1973 (age 51); Moinești
Hometown	Bucharest
Height	165 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics, Aerobic Gymnastics
Country represented	Romania
Club	Olimpic National Center Deva
Head coach(es)	Adrian Goreac, Maria Fumea
Assistant coach(es)	Maria Cosma, Adrian Stan, Octavian Bellu, Gabriel Popescu
Former coach(es)	Dorina & Mihai Sandulescu
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
European Championships

Lăcrămioara Filip (-Moldovan) (born 4 April 1973 Romania)^[1] is a retired Romanian artistic and aerobic gymnast.^[2] She is a world silver medalist with the team (artistic gymnastics) and a European gold medalist in the group event (aerobic gymnastics). Filip is also known to be the first gymnast to perform a tucked double front dismount from the uneven bars.^[3]

Currently, she is a gymnastics coach at the Romanian National Olympic Center in Deva, where she trains the national juniors team.^[4]

Artistic gymnastics career

She started to train for artistic gymnastics at the National Olympic Center in Oneşti.^[5] Her debut at an international event was at the 1988 "Junior Friendship" meet (Druzhba), where she placed second with the team, fifth all-around and second on vault. In 1989, she was a member of the silver medaled team at the world championships. The other team members were Cristina Bontaș, Aurelia Dobre, Eugenia Popa, Gabriela Potorac, and Daniela Silivaş. Filip placed 5th in the vault and 28th in the 1990 Cottbus Cup and won bronze all around behind Lavinia Miloșovici and Maria Neculiţă at the 1991 Romanian International.^[6] She retired from artistic gymnastics after 1991.

Aerobic gymnastics career

In the years after retirement, Lăcrămioara transferred to aerobic gymnastics. She trained at the C.S Farul Constanta club with coach Maria Fumea. In 1999, she won the gold medal for the group event at the European Championships,^[7] and together with her partner Claudiu Moldovan, she was placed 4th in the mixed pair event at the world championships.^[8] She also performed in the Aeros entertainment show.^[9] Her colleagues at Aeros were Daniela Mărănduca, Izabela Lăcătuș, Cristian Claudiu Moldovan, and Remus Nicolai.^[10]

Post retirement

Lăcrămioara married her aerobic gymnastics and Aeros colleague Cristian Claudiu Moldovan in 2001. Together, they have a daughter, Teodora Paula (born in 2004). In 2000, she became a gymnastics coach at Dinamo Club Bucharest. Currently, she is coaching with her husband at the Olympic Center Deva.^[4] Among many gymnasts, she coached young Diana Chelaru,^[11] Diana Bulimar, and Larisa Iordache.

References

^ Feteration Internationale de Gymnastique Archived 2009-03-10 at the Wayback Machine Lacramioara Filip
^ Gymnastics Greats Archived 2010-11-11 at the Wayback Machine Whatever happened with Lăcrămioara Filip?
^ Gymn Forum Innovators
^ ^a ^b Info Portal Romania Archived 2009-04-12 at the Wayback Machine Champion Family, December 18, 2007 (Romanian)
^ National Olympic Center Deva Archived 2009-03-14 at the Wayback Machine Gymnastics Results (in Romanian)
^ Gymn Forum Results 1991 Romanian Internationals
^ European Union of Gymnastics 1999 European Aerobic Gymnastics Championships
^ European Union of Gymnastics 1999 World Aerobic Gymnastics Championships
^ The University of Iowa news releases Archived 2009-02-03 at the Wayback Machine Aeros combines world-class gymnasts from Romania with playful American choreographers, February 8, 2001
^ Variety Aeros (review) by Julio Martinez, January 17, 2001
^ Oneşti Express Archived 2019-08-24 at the Wayback Machine Diana Chelaru on the footsteps of Nadia Comaneci, by Ion Moraru, October 15, 2009 (Romanian)