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Nadia Comaneci

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Sport and Games Atlas. "Nadia Comaneci." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-sport.interactiveatlas.org/athletes/nadia-comaneci.

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Sport and Games Atlas. (n.d.). Nadia Comaneci. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-sport.interactiveatlas.org/athletes/nadia-comaneci

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@misc{sportandgamesatlas-nadia-comaneci,
  author = {Sport and Games Atlas},
  title = {Nadia Comaneci},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-sport.interactiveatlas.org/athletes/nadia-comaneci},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Romanian gymnast, the first in Olympic history to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0, at the 1976 Montreal Olympics at age 14; won nine Olympic medals, five of them gold, across the 1976 and 1980 Games.

Facts

Birth Year

1961 1

Nationality

Romania 1

Career Highlight

First perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics history, at the 1976 Montreal Olympics; five Olympic gold medals across the 1976 and 1980 Games. 1

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Olympic Games

Source Encyclopaedia Britannica

Plays

Gymnastics

Source Encyclopaedia Britannica

Sources

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica

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