Lavinia Miloșovici
[4][5][6] Miloșovici's gymnastics career was nearly derailed when she contracted scarlet fever at the age of 10, and again when the Romanian Revolution in 1989 temporarily closed Deva.In the event finals, she tied with Hungarian Henrietta Ónodi for the vault gold medal and won floor exercise with a perfect score of 10.0.Shortly before the 1994 World Championships, she and her teammates staged a strike at Deva to protest non-payment of prize money owed from the Romanian Gymnastics Federation.A step on dismount of her uneven bars routine and a minor wobble in the side somersault on beam cost her the win.At the European Championships, a fall off the uneven bars on the dismount kept her off the all-around podium, but she rebounded to win a gold on vault, silver on floor, and bronze on beam in the individual event finals.Miloșovici led the Romanian team to a bronze at the 1996 Olympics, in spite of a spate of injuries that left the squad depleted of several key gymnasts and forced them to compete with only six athletes instead of seven.[11] Milosovici had the rare opportunity to improve upon her third place all around finish in Barcelona; with her consistency and competitors' mistakes, she was tied for the bronze with Amanar, and became the first gymnast since Nadia Comăneci to medal in the all around at consecutive Olympics.This also marked her fourth all-around medal in World and Olympic competition, a feat since equalled only by Svetlana Khorkina, Aliya Mustafina and Simone Biles.Interestingly, whilst Milosovici won the all around bronze medal at the 1995 Worlds, 1996 European and 1996 Olympics, Lilia Pokdopayeva was the gold medalist in all three finals.She is currently ranked fifth in terms of the total number of medals won at the World Championships, behind Simone Biles, Svetlana Khorkina, Gina Gogean and Larisa Latynina.
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