Claudia Presăcan
Claudia Maria Presăcan ( born December 28, 1979 in Sibiu, Sibiu County ) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast.
Claudia Presăcan began at the age of 4 1/2 years with the gymnastics. In 1993 she moved to the central training center in Bucharest, began in the same year with the participation in international competitions and launched between 1994 and 2000 at senior level. In the European Junior Championships in 1994 she won her first gold medal in the floor exercise. Her international breakthrough came from Romania had at the World Cup 1994 in Dortmund, where she won the gold medal in the relay. The same result is reached Presăcan a year later in Sabae and 1997 in Lausanne. The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta she missed due to a broken hand. In 1998 she won the European Championship in St. Petersburg again the gold medal in the relay and its single individual medals, bronze in the all around and on bars. In 1999, she fell for the World Cup again because of an injury. The last major event, attended the Presăcan, were the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Here she won the gold medal with the Romanian season. After the competitions was announced that the Romanian team doctor Presăcan let start despite a very low hemoglobin level of 6.3. After the games, she resigned as artistic gymnast and was briefly active as a coxswain in rowing. in this sport was their biggest success to participate in the Universiade 2001.
International attention Claudia Presăcan 2002 when she posed nude for a Japanese magazine with her former teammates Corina Ungureanu and Lavinia Milosovici. Shortly after, DVDs were produced, where the three athletes were shown how they performed gymnastics bare-chested, and other image series for the Japanese magazine " Shukan Gendai ". As the three case occurred several times in the official National jerseys Romania, were blocked as trainers and jury members every three to 2007 by the Romanian Association. The Japanese junior gymnastics federation refused thereafter to allow Romanian gymnasts for an international competition in Japan. Today Presăcan lives as a trainer on the Isle of Man.