Lavinia Miloșovici
Lavinia Corina Milosovici (Serbian: Lavinija Milošević / Лавинија Милошевић; born October 21, 1976 in Lugoj, Timiş county ) is a former Romanian gymnast Serbian origin.
Lavinia Milosovici comes from an athletic family. The mother Ildiko Milosovici was successful as a volleyball player, the father Tănase Milosovici as a wrestler. She started at the age of six years with the gymnastics and moved to the national training center for the gymnast to Deva quickly. A scarlet fever at the age of ten years almost ended her career early. During the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the training base was temporarily closed. Since 1990 Milosovici came to Romania in international competitions. At the Junior European Championships 1991, she won two gold medals.
Since 1991 Milosovici also launched at senior level. Already in her first season, she won the all-around title at the Romanian championships. At the 1991 World Championships in Indianapolis from Romania won their first gold medal in jump and bronze in the relay. In 1992 gold on the parallel bars in Paris. Very successfully ran the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Milosovici won the gold medals in the jump and on the ground, with the team silver and bronze in the all around. At the bottom she could erturnen a smooth touch all ten judges. The gold medal in jump she shared with the Hungarian Henrietta Ónodi. Also, the 1993 World Championships in Birmingham was successful. On balance beam gold, the athlete, won bronze at the jump. In 1994, in Dortmund a gold medal with the team to do so and in Brisbane silver in the all around and on the ground as well as bronze in the jump. At the European Championships of the year in Stockholm, she won gold in the relay and jump silver at the bottom as well as bronze on beam. The last gold medal at a World Cup won Milosovici 1995 with the squadron in Sabae. In the all-around bronze was added. The highlight of 1996 was the Olympic Games in Atlanta, where Milosovici was not on the level of their performance due to injuries. She won bronze in the relay and in the all around. At the World Cup of the year in San Juan Bronze came on the ground, added at the European Championships in Birmingham gold in the relay and on the ground as well as bronze in the all around. In the summer of 1997 Milosovici stepped back from competitive sports and returned to Lugoj, where she was a trainer and studied at the Sport University of Timişoara.
International attention Lavinia Milosovici 2002 when she posed nude for a Japanese magazine with her former teammates Corina Ungureanu 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.
Since 1999 Milosovici is married to a police officer. The couple's daughter came in 2004 with a low Apgar score to the world and died on 12 October 2008.
Milosovici was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2011.