Cristina Casandra

Cristina Casandra, née lloc ( born 1 February 1977 in Zalau, Salaj county ), is a Romanian track and field athlete who specializes in the steeplechase.

Career

The thirteen- year-old Cristina lloc began with the Athletics in their home town Zalău. From 1990 to 1995 she trained with C.S.Ş. Zalău and then until the fall of 1998 under Teodor Bidean CSM ARMATURA Zalău. Since the autumn of 1998, she starts for the CSM Suceava 2004 and 2005 and was briefly in addition to CSA Steaua Bucharest active.

Her first international success was winning the bronze medal in the 5,000 - meter race at the IAAF World Junior Championships in 1996 in Beijing. Also the third place over this distance she won in 1999 at the Universiade in Palma de Mallorca. In the Universiade 2000 in Vilamoura, she was third in the cross country.

Then she focused on the obstacle course. The breakthrough in time for women young discipline she succeeded on 7 August 2000, when she with a time of 9:43,64 minutes set a world record in the steeplechase aufstellte in Bucharest, undercutting the old brand of Russian Jelena Motalowa by more than five seconds. Only about three weeks later Casandra improved in Reims her own world record to 9:40,20 min. Nearly a year later, she lost her record to the Pole Justyna Bąk.

In the 2003 Universiade in Daegu Casandra won a bronze medal in the 5000 -meter run. In the obstacle course she won at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 2005 and the seventh at the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg in 2006 to tenth place. At the World Athletics Championships 2007 in Osaka she finished sixth and in the same year at the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart third parties. Casandra 2008 Beijing first participated in the Olympic Games. There she could put up with 9:16,85 min her personal best that finished fifth in the steeplechase. At the World Athletics Championships in Berlin in 2009 she divorced the other hand, already out in the flow.

Casandra is threefold Romanian champion in steeplechase ( 2003, 2007 and 2009). In 2008 she was runner-up behind ancuta Bobocel.

Cristina Casandra is 1,70 m tall and has a competition weight of 54 kg. It is with the walker Silviu Casandra ( born October 20, 1975 in Iaşi ) married, she also coached since 1999.