Daniela SilivaÈ™

Viorica Daniela Silivaş - Harper ( born May 9, 1972 in Deva, Hunedoara County ) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. She was three time Olympic gold medalist.

Silivaş began at the age of six years with the gymnastics and was extremely successful in the early years. 1985 changed the Romanian Gymnastics Federation, her birth year from 1972 to 1970, so she could be admitted to the World Gymnastics Championships in 1985. The fraud was suspected by some, however, could never be verified until Silivaş himself admitted in 2002. She received a perfect score of 10.0 on the balance beam, beating the reigning World Champion Ecaterina Szabó. They soon became the leader in the Romanian gymnastics womens team.

At the age of 16, she took part in the Summer Olympic Games in Seoul in 1988 to six competitions and won a medal in each. She won the gold medal on the uneven bars, the balance beam and floor exercise. In team and individual all around competition she won two silver medals in the horse and jump she was third.

Silivaş is also seven-time world champion. She won between 1985 and 1989 a total of ten medals at the World Gymnastics Championships.

After the political change in 1989 joined the National Training Center in Deva, which led to the premature end of her career.

In 1991 she announced her departure and now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States, where she is currently pursuing a career as a gymnastics coach. In 2002 she was accepted as a youngest athlete in the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.