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Nadia Elena Comaneci was born in Romania on 12 November 1961
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At the age of 13, Nadia Comaneci had his first major success: he won three gold and one silver medal at the European Gymnastics Championship in Skien, Norway.
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The Olympic Games in Montreal where she revealed herself as a true gymnastics prodigy: she did a perfect ten.
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At the Moscow Olympic Games in 1980, she won individual gold medals in-ground and balance bar exercises.
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She did her last appearance in a major competition was at the World University Championship held in Bucharest in 1981
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Between 1984 and 1989, Nadia Comaneci was a member of the Romanian Gymnastics Federation. She then devoted herself to training the young gymnasts of her country.
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She was named one of the hundred most important women of the 20th century; since 1993 she has been a member of the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
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In 1999, Nadia Comaneci was the second athlete to receive an invitation to speak at the United Nations.
