Corina Ungureanu

Corina Georgiana Ungureanu ( born August 29, 1980 in Ploieşti, Prahova County ) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast and current coach.

Corina Ungureanu began her career at the club Petrolul Ploiesti, but switched early to the central gymnastics center to Bucharest, where she was coached by Leana Sima. At times, she also coached under Octavian Belu in the national training center in Deva. Between 1993 and 1999 she went to Romania in international competitions. Your first more significant international achievements came in 1996 when he won the EcoAir cups. For the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta is Ungureanu could not prevail against strong national competition. However, a year later it belonged to the Romanian relay that won the gold medal in Lausanne. In 1998 she won in St. Petersburg and the European title in the relay and the title at gymnastics. In 1999, at the World Championships in Tianjin again a gold medal in the relay added. Because of a long-term injury she stepped back from the 1999 competitive sports.

International attention Corina Ungureanu outside the sport for the first time in 2000, when she was photographed nude for Romanian Playboy. These pictures were also published in the Japanese edition of Playboy, which led to requests for more shots from Japan. In 2002, she then posed nude for a Japanese magazine with her ​​former teammates Lavinia Milosovici and Claudia Presăcan. 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. Due to the lock Ungureanu spent some time in Italy as a trainer. Published in 2004 an authorized biography. She was spokesperson for the Romanian mineral water group Bucovina SA and operates with her boyfriend a coffee house in Ploieşti. In 2007, she took over with Claudia Presăcan a coach position at the British Association. In 2008, she posed again for the Romanian Playboy.