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30 July 2007 Source: Monitorul de Sibiu
Steliana is the Queen
Steliana has competed almost flawlessly at the National Championships in Ploiesti, the last big competition before Worlds in September. The girl from Sibiu won gold in the individual competition with more than 3 points difference.
Steliana: 'I am very happy with this title. I really wanted a good competition and mainly I succeeded in that. I am happy with this medal. I hope it will be a good omen for the future competitions. The biggest stakes are to follow and I hope that I will do a good job there too.'
Steliana, who was watched by her mother, also won gold on bars and won a medal in all other apparatus finals.
Individual Competition
1. Steliana Nistor 14.800 15.800 16.550 15.400 62.550
2. Sandra Izbasa 14.200 14.100 15.800 14.800 58.900
3. Daniela Druncea 14.900 14.500 14.050 14.500 57.950
4. Madalina Gutu 13.200 14.300 15.500 14.850 57.850
5. Floarea Leonida 14.050 14.050 15.000 14.450 57.550
6. Alexandra Ghita 13.600 13.800 15.600 14.250 57.250
7. Elena Chiric 14.050 12.650 15.200 14.500 56.400
8. Anamaria Tamarjan 13.950 12.600 14.600 15.050 56.200
9. Alina Stanculescu 13.600 11.150 14.650 13.300 52.700
Event Finals
Vault
1. Catalina Ponor 15.062
2. Daniela Druncea 14.687
3. Steliana Nistor 14.537
4. Elena Chiric 14.175
5. Sandra Izbasa 14.162
6. Floarea Leonida 13.987
7. Anamaria Tamarjan 13.887
8. Alina Stanculescu 13.137
Uneven Bars
1. Steliana Nistor 15.700
2. Sandra Izbasa 14.850
3. Madalina Gutu 14.550
4. Floarea Leonida 14.175
5. Anamaria Tamarjan 14.000
6. Alexandra Ghita 13.750
7. Daniela Druncea 13.650
8. Elena Chiric 12.200
Beam
1. Catalina Ponor 16.500
2. Steliana Nistor 15.675
3. Sandra Izbasa 15.450
4. Elena Chiric 14.800
4. Alina Stanculescu 14.800
6. Alexandra Ghita 14.675
7. Floarea Leonida 14.475
8. Madalina Gutu 14.450
Floor
1. Sandra Izbasa 15.350
2. Anamaria Tamarjan 15.300
3. Steliana Nistor 15.025
4. Daniela Druncea 14.700
5. Madalina Gutu 14.500
6. Floarea Leonida 14.450
7. Alexandra Ghita 14.225
8. Elena Chiric 14.100
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28 July 2007
E.Y.O.F and Romanian Nationals preview
In a very busy July schedule, the Romanian National Championships in Ploiesti start this weekend
Missing from the line up will be Patrascu, Acatrinei and Dragoi all at EYOF and also Andreea Grigore who has a slight injury.
Returning to competition after a long time injury is former Junior European Champion on beam
Alina Stanculescu, it also marks the return to high level competition of Sandra Izbasa following her serious foot injury during Europeans in Amsterdam.
Catalina Ponor will also be taking part and will be favourite to win a title after her impressive comeback and form in competitions recently.
The EYOF event finals took place yesterday and it was an up and down day for the Romanian girls. Cerasela Patrascu won gold on vault and a bronze on beam, but disappointing results in the floor final for Gabriela Dragoi (6th) with 13.575 and Andreea Acatrinei (7th) with 13.300.
The event was dominated by Valentina Holenkova of Ukraine with 4 golds and a silver in total.
Event results:
Vault
1. Cerasela Patrascu ROM 14.037
2. Ekaterina Kurbatova RUS 13.912
3. Youna Defournet FRA 13.737
Bars
1. Valentina Holenkova UKR 15.125
2. Youna Defournet FRA 14.025
3. Joeline Mobius GER 13.650
Beam
1. Valentina Holenkova UKR 15.175
2. Elisabetta Preziosa ITA 14.825
3. Cerasela Patrascu ROM 14.700
Floor
1. Joeline Mobius GER 14.000
2. Valentina Holenkova UKR 13.875
3. Ana Maria Izurieta ITA 13.750
27 July 2007
Yesterday the Individual All Around competition at the EYOF (European Youth Olympic Festival) took place. The scores were as follows:
1. Valentina Holenkova UKR 13.550 14.800 15.000 13.700 57.050
2. Cerasela Patrascu ROM 13.800 14.200 14.600 13.900 56.500
3. Andreea Acatrinei ROM 14.200 11.950 14.700 14.200 55.050
Gabriela Dragoi who qualified for the Individual competition was replaced by Cerasela.
It is not known whether this was a tactical decision or due to an injury.
After a below par performance in the team competition Cerasela Patrascu was back on form in the All-around, helped by a much improved performance on bars, she finished a close second to Ukrainian star Holenkova.
Andreea Acatrinei hit 3 routines very well becoming the only gymnast to score 14 plus on 3 events, achieving the top score in both vault and floor.
25 July 2007
Stoica satisfied and Team Finals EYOF
Prosport reports Adrian Stoica explaining that after the two recent competitions (in Spain and Italy), things are moving in the right direction and progress is being made from competition to competition. He thinks that if the team stays the way it is, they could be battling for a podium place at Worlds.
Stoica adds that Catalina Ponor helps the team enormously on vault and beam and maybe even on floor in September.
He's satisfied about the progress the juniors have made but he's not too pleased that Sandra hasn't totally recovered but is happy that after such a long break, on bars she has come back with a more improved routine.
In the meantime the EYOF is taking place is Belgrade, Serbia. Cerasela Patrascu, Gabriela Dragoi and Andreea Acatrinei are representing Romania.
The girls struggled on bars, especially Patrascu was disappointing on this apparatus as she scored above 15 in Italy but now didn't get further than a 12.200!
Individual scores on all four apparatus:
Dragoi: 13.950/ 12.600/ 14.350/ 13.800
Patrascu: 14.600/ 12.200/ 14.800/ 12.950
Acatrinei: 14.450/ 12.400/ 14.550/ 14.150
Acatrinei qualified 5th AA with 55.550, Dragoi 10th with 54.700 and Patrascu 13th with 54.550.
Patrascu and Acatrinei qualified for beam and Acatrinei for floor.
Team results:
1. Ukraine 114.700
2. Netherlands 111.500
3. Romania 111.250
23 July 2007
6 nation meet in Italy
Results of the competition held in Italy during the weekend of the 21st of July:
1. Romania 238.150
2. Italy 234.200
3. France 231.450
4. Czech Republic 221.150
5. Switzerland 220.700
6. Egypt 136.050
Individual Competition:
1. Vanessa Ferrari 14.550/15.850/15.800/15.900 total: 62.100
2. Steliana Nistor 14.500/15.900/15.800/13.600 total: 59.800
3. Marine Petit 14.450/14.350/15.200/14.650 total: 58.650
4. Anamaria Tamarjan 13.850/14.450/14.750/14.900 total: 57.950
5. Andreea Grigore 13.650/14.500/15.050/14.700 total: 57.900
6. Cerasela Patrascu 14.200/15.350/14.850/13.300 total: 57.700
Steliana continued her brilliant form on bars, getting the highest score of the UB competition.
Sandra trained all 4 events but competed outside of the competition. During competition she had a couple of falls (beam and floor) and watered down her acrobatics but that is normal after being injured.
Catalina Ponor competed on three apparatus except for bars. Her scores were quite high, vault 14.750, beam 16.300 and floor 14.600. Her scores on vault and beam were the highest of the competition.
For Prosport Nicolae Forminte said that Anamaria Tamarjan could be a solution for the team. He wasn't satisfied with the scores on floor and vault but he hopes that when Sandra comes back to full form, the scores on these two apparatus will increase.
Catalina Ponor: 'For me it was important to taste the competition atmosphere again. I hope that everything will keep on going well.'
Mariana Bitang added that it was a difficult competition. It lasted very long and it was cold in the hall. She thinks it's important that Catalina maintains a high standard on beam.
20 July 2007
Sandra Izbasa will compete her first competition again since injuring herself during the European Championships in April, where she broke her metatarsal. The Romanian team including Nistor, Ponor, Patrascu, Grigore, Tamarjan, Druncea, Dragoi and Izbasa will be competing against Italy, France, Switzerland, Egypt and the Czech Republic over the weekend.
For Prosport Sandra declared that her foot doesn't hurt anymore and it is up to her how she catches up with the time that she has lost. She feels that she has recovered the best on beam and slowly but surely on the other apparatus.
She sees this competition as a very important test as it will show how she has come back and on what she still needs to work.
Sandra knows that the time before Worlds is short and she hopes to be able to achieve the best possible form as she also has to add some new elements into her routines and she has lost training time due to her injury.
She is happy to have Ponor on the team as she brings stability to the team and her experience is important.
13 July 2007
Lugano Trophy
Some older news from the end of May.
Gymnasts from some 9 nations took part in Switzerland in the Lugano Trophy on the 26th May.
Cerasela Patrascu won the Individual competition with a score of 57.050 top scoring on beam with 14.300 and floor with a 15.050. Gabriela Dragoi finished a creditable 4th with 55.600, being consistent on 3 apparatus and starring on floor by scoring a 14.600.
9 July 2007
Aphrodite Cup
Andreea Acatrinei and Alexandra Ghita competed at the Aphrodite Cup in Nicosia, Cyprus. Andreea won the individual competition with 56.350 and Alexandra came second with 53.700.
Acatrinei then won bars (14.075), beam (15.175) and floor (14.350) and Ghita came second on bars (13.225), beam (14.125) and floor (14.175)
1 July 2007
Results of the Tri-meet Spain-Romania-Italy
1. Romania 235.650
2. Italy 229.200
3. Spain 225.550
Individual competition:
1. Vanessa Ferrari 61.350
2. Steliana Nistor 59.000
3. Andreea Grigore 58.150
Steliana had a good competition, even adding a new element to her bars routine, a toe-on Shaposhnikova. Her individual scores were:
vault 14.500
bars 14.600
beam 15.600
floor 14.900
Catalina Ponor competed on vault and beam and scored the highest mark on beam with a 16.250