Anamaria Tămârjan
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Born | Constanţa, Romania | 8 May 1991|||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Level | Senior International | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Gym | Deva National Training Center/CS Petrolul Ploieşti | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Nicolae Forminte | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Former coach(es) | Camelia Rădulescu, Gabriela Tavaru, Doina Olaru[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Anamaria "Ana" Tămârjan (also spelled Tămîrjan, born 8 May 1991) is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She is a bronze Olympic medalist and a gold European medalist with the team. Individually, she is a European silver medalist on balance beam and a bronze medalist on floor. Her favorite events are the floor and the balance beam.[2]
Early life and career
[edit]She is an identical twin; her sister Adriana was also a world-class gymnast and a member of the Romanian national team, but she is now retired.[2] Tămârjan began training in gymnastics at the age of 4 in Ploieşti with coach Camelia Rădulescu.[1] She moved to the junior national training center in Oneşti at the age of 12 and was invited to the Deva National Training Center a few years later. During her junior career she competed at Siska Gym International (2006) where she tied for silver on floor with Ekaterina Kramarenko and placed seventh all around.[3] She ranked sixth all around at the 2006 Romanian nationals.[4] Although a member of the junior national team, she missed the 2006 European Championships with an elbow injury.[2]
Senior career
[edit]Tămârjan was a member of the Romanian team at the 2007 World Championships, but was replaced by alternate Andreea Grigore. She was training on the uneven bars before the competition and she slipped from the bar and broke her leg.[5] She also missed the 2008 Romanian national championships with an injury.[6] However, she had a good meet at the 2008 European Championships in Clermont-Ferrand, France, winning the gold medal with the team and the bronze medal on floor.
She was selected alongside Sandra Izbaşa, Steliana Nistor, Andreea Grigore, Andreea Acatrinei and Gabriela Drăgoi to be a member of the Romanian team at the 2008 Olympic Games. Here she helped her team to qualify in the fourth position in the team finals by competing on all four events vault (15.025) uneven bars (14.275), beam (15.200), and on floor (14.500).[7] In the team final event she supported the team to win the bronze medal by improving all the scores obtained in the preliminaries: vault (15.125) uneven bars (14.425), beam (15.425), and floor (14.950).[8] She also placed 16th in the qualification for the all around but she did not compete in the finals due to the two per country rule.[9]
Struggling with health problems she was not at her full physical potential at the 2009 European Championships.[10] However, she managed to qualify second all around, second on beam and fifth on floor.[11] She failed to medal in the all around event due to a fall during the floor exercise.[12] She placed fifth all around, won silver on balance beam and placed fourth on floor.[13] Later that year she competed at the 2009 World Championships where she qualified only in the all around final. She ended her second world championships experience by placing ninth all around.[14] After her return to Romania she underwent surgery to both knees with little chances of making a comeback at the 2010 European Championships.[15] Due to health problems she retired in June 2010. She enrolled the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports in Bucharest.[16]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Adrian Rădulescu (27 August 2009). "Camelia Rădulescu trains young gymnast for Olympic Games (Romanian)". The Truth (Adevărul). Archived from the original on 30 July 2012.
- ^ a b c Ayako Murao (31 July 2008). "Interview: Anamaria Tamarjan (Romania)". International Gymnast Magazine. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012.
- ^ "10th Siska Gym International Women". Gymnastics Results. Archived from the original on 9 March 2009.
Ana Marija Tamarjan
- ^ "2006 Romanian Championships: Women's AA". Gymn Forum. Archived from the original on 16 October 2018.
Ana Tamarjan
- ^ Amanda Turner (30 August 2007). "Tamârjan Out of Worlds with Leg Fracture". International Gymnast Magazine. Archived from the original on 31 March 2009.
Ana Maria Tamârjan
- ^ Ayako Murao (27 June 2008). "Romanian Nationals Begin". International Gymnast Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 July 2008.
Ana Maria Tamarjan
- ^ "Gymnastics Artistic > Women's Qualification". Official website of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 13 August 2008.
TAMIRJAN Anamaria
- ^ Wikipedia Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics; Women’s team final
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ana Tămârjan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
Full name: Anamaria "Ana" Tămârjan
- ^ Amanda Turner (26 March 2009). "Romanians Confident of Medals in Milan". International Gymnast Magazine. Archived from the original on 29 March 2009.
Anamaria Tamarjan
- ^ Amanda Turner (2 April 2009). "Semyonova Leads European Qualification". International Gymnast Magazine. Archived from the original on 5 April 2009.
Anamaria Tamarjan
- ^ Amanda Turner (4 April 2009). "Semyonova Captures European Crown". International Gymnast Magazine. Archived from the original on 9 April 2009.
Anamaria Tamarjan
- ^ Amanda Turner (5 April 2009). "France, Britain Double Winners in Milan". International Gymnast Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 April 2009.
Anamaria Tamarjan
- ^ "41st Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2009 - Artistic Gymnastics Women". Gymnastics Results. Archived from the original on 10 December 2009.
TAMIRJAN Anamaria
- ^ "Compilation of English translation of Romanian articles". Steliana Nistor Unofficial Site News. Archived from the original on 16 February 2012.
Anamaria Tamarjan
- ^ Beatrice Gheorghişor. "The Joys and Sorrows of Anamaria Tamarjan: An Interview with the Romanian Swan". The Couch Gymnast Magazine. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011.
External links
[edit]- Anamaria Tămîrjan - fan site
- Anamaria Tamirjan at the Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (in Romanian) (English translation)
- Anamaria Tamirjan at the International Gymnastics Federation
- Anamaria Tamirjan at Olympics.com
- Anamaria Tamirjan at Olympic.org (archived)
- Anamaria Tamirjan at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 13 August 2008)
- Anamaria Tamarjan photo page at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 February 2009)
- Ana Tămârjan at Olympedia
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Constanța
- Romanian female artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts for Romania
- Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
- European champions in gymnastics
- Identical twins
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Romanian twins
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Romanian women