Ana Maria Brânză

Ana Maria Florentina branża (* November 26, 1984 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian fencer sword, Olympic silver medalist and two-time world champion.

Ana Maria was branża. During the 2002 World Championships in Lisbon third in the individual competition, thus reaching for a long time its best results in international competitions At the 2004 Olympics in Athens, she came into the second round and finished at the end of 16th place at the World Cup in Leipzig in 2005 came branża to the quarter finals and finished sixth. A year later, she was fifth at the World Championships in Turin and also finished fourth with the team with which they then in Izmir European Team Championship title. 2007 was the World Cup is not good for the Romanian. In St. Petersburg, it reached only number 21 in the individual, with the season, she was ten.

In the road to success was branża 2008. In Kiev, she won the silver medal at the European Championships and became European Champion with the team. The success continued into at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. After wins over Megumi Harada, Lyubov Schutowa and later bronze medalist Ildiko Mincza - Nebald they only lost in the final of the German Britta Heidemann with 11-15. At the end of the season it was World Cup winner.

In 2009 she was in Plovdiv team European Champion, 2010 in Paris team world champion. In 2011, she won the European Championships in Sheffield and also at the World Championships in Catania each bronze in epee individual and gold with the team. In 2012 she won silver at the European Championships in Legnano with the epee team. At the Olympic Games in London, she retired with the Degen - team against the later silver medalists from South Korea and reached the sixth place in the epee individual they lost against the later winner Jana Schemjakina and came eleventh. 2013, it was single European Champion in Zagreb and won silver in the epee team at the World Championships in Budapest she won the epee team bronze.