Nicoleta Grasu
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Birth name | Lenuța Nicoleta Grădinaru | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Lenuța Nicoleta Grasu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Romanian | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1971-09-11) 11 September 1971 (age 52) Secuieni, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 100 kg (220 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Costel Grasu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Discus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal best | 68.80 m (1999) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 14 August 2012. |
Lenuţa Nicoleta Grasu is a retired Romanian discus thrower. She was born on 11 September 1971 in Secuieni as Nicoleta Grădinaru, but took a new surname when she married fellow discus thrower Costel Grasu.
Grasu is best known for winning medals at the 1999 and 2001 World Championships. A few years followed without any international medals, but she did finish sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics and fifth at the 2005 World Championships. In 2006, she returned to the medal podium with a bronze at the European Championships.
Her personal best throw is 68.80 metres, achieved in August 1999 in Poiana Braşov.
International competitions
Personal
Nicoleta and Costel's child Ștefan Grasu is a professional basketball player.
External links
- Nicoleta Grasu at World Athletics
- Nicoleta Grădinaru-Grasu at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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Preceded by | Women's Discus Best Year Performance 2000 | Succeeded by |
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- 1959: Györgyi Hegedus (HUN)
- 1961–1963: Tamara Press (URS)
- 1965: Jolán Kleiber-Kontsek (HUN)
- 1967: Liesel Westermann (FRG)
- 1970: Karin Illgen (GDR)
- 1973: Faina Melnik (URS)
- 1975–1977: Mariya Vergova (BUL)
- 1979: Svetlana Melnikova (URS)
- 1981–1983: Florența Crăciunescu (ROM)
- 1985: Maritza Martén (CUB)
- 1987: Tsvetanka Khristova (BUL)
- 1989: Hou Xuemei (CHN)
- 1991: Xiao Yanling (CHN)
- 1993: Renata Katewicz (POL)
- 1995–1997: Natalya Sadova (RUS)
- 1999: Nicoleta Grasu (ROM)
- 2001: Li Qiumei (CHN)
- 2003: Natalya Fokina-Semenova (UKR)
- 2005: Wioletta Potępa (POL)
- 2007: Yarelys Barrios (CUB)
- 2009: Dani Samuels (AUS)
- 2011: Żaneta Glanc (POL)
- 2013: Vera Ganeeva (RUS)
- 2015: Yuliya Maltseva (RUS)
- 2017: Kristin Pudenz (GER)
- 2019: Daisy Osakue (ITA)
- 2021: Antonia Kinzel (GER)
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