Camelia Potec

Camelia Potec (2011)

Camelia Alina Potec ( born February 19, 1982 in Brăila ) is a Romanian swimmer and Olympic champion.

Career

Potec began at the age of eight years with the swimming. The passion for the water, she inherited his own words from her father, Ion Ionescu, a former sailor, who also trained. My home club is the Club Sportiv Municipal Braila.

At the Olympic Summer Games 2000 in Sydney Potec penetrated into the final of the 200m freestyle before and came there at the end of 7th place with the Romanian 4x200 m freestyle relay, she won the fourth place behind the U.S., Australia and Germany. This year she was also second overall in the star-studded Mare Nostrum meeting series.

Your athletic performance, they confirmed at the World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka in 2001. There she won the 200m freestyle bronze medal and finished the 400m freestyle Rank 6

The greatest success of her career was celebrating Potec at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. About 200 m freestyle on 17 August 2004, she won a surprise gold medal. Potec had only gone with the seventh- best qualifying time in the final, but sat down at the end with 19 hundredths ahead of Italy's Federica Pellegrini by. That same year she also won the Mare Nostrum meeting series before her compatriot Razvan Florea.

In the swimming world championships in Rome in 2009, she launched over the longer freestyle distances and won the bronze medal over 1500 m. Also about 400 m ( 6th place) and 800 m ( 5th place) she reached the finals each.