Mălina Călugăreanu
Mălina Călugăreanu (born 15 September 1996, Bucharest) is a Romanian foil fencer.
Mălina Călugăreanu | |
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Personal information | |
Born | Bucharest, Romania | 15 September 1996
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Country | |
Sport | Fencing |
Weapon | sabre |
Hand | left-handed |
National coach | Petre Ducu |
Club | CSA Steaua |
Head coach | Petre Ducu Florin Gheorghe |
FIE ranking | current ranking |
Career
Călugăreanu took up fencing at the age of twelve under the guiding of Petre Ducu and Florin Gheorghe, who remain her coaches as of 2016.[1] She won her first junior World Cup tournament in 2014 in Timișoara,[2] ending the 2014–15 season with a No. 1 position in World junior rankings.[1]
She took part in her first senior competitions during the 2011–12 season and she joined the senior Romanian national team for the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb.[3] In 2014, she won the silver medal at the Romanian championships, after losing in the final to Steaua teammate Maria Boldor. They went on to win the team gold medal together.[4] The same happened in 2015.
In the 2015–16 season she earned a silver medal at the World Cup satellite tournament in Ankara.[5] In April she qualified to the Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics through a top-four finish at the Prague pre-olympic tournament.[6]
References
- Mihai Dragomir (20 November 2015). "Scrimă: Mălina Călugăreanu, cea mai bună floretistă junioară din lume în sezonul 2014-2015" (in Romanian). Agerpres.
- Mihai Constantin (27 September 2014). "Medalie de aur cucerită de Mălina Călugăreanu în etapa de Cupa Mondială la floreta feminin juniori". Sport Total FM.
- "Scrimă: Mihai Covaliu vrea cel puțin o medalie la Europenele de la Zagreb". Agerpres. 14 June 2013.
- Cezara Paraschiv (19 May 2014). "La 18 ani, Maria Boldor a obținut primul titlu de campioană națională la floretă, proba individuală a senioarelor". ProSport.
- Daniel Remeș (16 November 2015). "Mălina Călugăreanu (CSA Steaua) a ocupat locul doi la etapa satelit de Cupă Mondială la floretă seniori feminin de la Ankara". Romanian Fencing Federation.
- "Scrimă: Floretista Mălina Călugăreanu s-a calificat la Jocurile Olimpice de la Rio". Agerpres. 17 April 2016.
External links
- Profile at the European Fencing Confederation