Nicoleta Grasu

Nicoleta Grasu Lenuta, born Nicoleta Grădinaru, ( born September 11, 1971 in Secuieni, Circle Neamţ ) is a Romanian discus thrower.

Career

At the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart in 1993 they finished seventh at the European Championships 1994 Fourth, at the 1995 World Championships in Gothenburg she failed in qualifying and at the 1997 World Championships in Athens she was ten. For the first time she came at a major event on the podium when she won bronze at the 1998 European Championships. It was followed by another bronze medal at the 1999 World Championships in Seville. In 2000, she retired at the Olympic Games in Sydney in the qualifier, but came in the following year again at the World Championships in Edmonton on the bronze medal, she moved later from bronze to silver medal after the first place winner Natalia Sadowa was disqualified retroactively.

At the Olympic Games in Athens, she finished sixth at the World Championships in Helsinki in 2005 they finished fifth; a year later there was another bronze for them at the European Championships in Gothenburg. At the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, they finished fourth, but subsequently moved on since the Second, the Russian Darya Pischtschalnikowa, was disqualified for doping. After she had only occupied twelfth place at the Olympic Games in Beijing, Grasu won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships in Berlin. At the European Championships 2010 in Barcelona, she threw the discus in the first attempt to 63,48 m, down to the last attempt in the lead, then surpassed the Croatian Sandra Perković their length by about a meter and won gold before Grasu.

Your personal best of 68.80 m from the year 1999 she won 14 Romanian championship. 1992, 1993, 1995-1997, 1999-2002, 2004-2006, 2008 and 2009.

Nicoleta Grasu has a competition weight of 88 kg at a height of 1.76 m. She is married to the Olympic Fourth 1992, the discus thrower Costel Grasu, who is also her coach.

Awards

In 2009, Nicoleta Grasu received by President Traian Basescu the Order of Merit " Meritul sporty " III. Class with a band.