Ecaterina Szabo

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Olympic medal record
Women's Artistic Gymnastics
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Team competition
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Vault
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Balance beam
Gold	1984 Los Angeles	Floor exercise
Silver	1984 Los Angeles	All-around

Ecaterina Szabo (Hungarian: Szabó Katalin) (born January 22, 1966 in Zagon, Covasna County, Romania) is a Romanian gymnast of Hungarian origin, who won multiple world and Olympic medals. Although perhaps most notable for winning the all-around silver in the 1984 Olympics after an epic clash with Mary Lou Retton of the US (in which she slipped from the balance beam because of her sweaty bare feet), Szabo won gold medals in all three of the individual events (vault, balance beam (tie), and floor exercise) for which she qualified during those games. Also led her team to the world title at the 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, defeating the USSR in the team competition for only the second time in the history of the competition. In 2000 Szabo was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. ^[1]

[edit] Reference

1. ^  ECATERINA SZABO. International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. Retrieved on April 1, 2006.

[edit] External links

• Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique profile for Ecaterina Szabo
• Bio at romanian-gymnastics.com
• Whatever Happened to Ekaterina Szabo?
• List of competitive results

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