Nadia Comăneci

Romanian gymnast and five-time Olympic gold medalist (born 1961)

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Born 1961 · age 65
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    Born 1961
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    2017
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Updated 2026-06-21

She landed a perfect 10 when the scoreboards couldn't even display it. At 14, Nadia Comăneci broke the ceiling of what judges thought gymnastics could be — then did it six more times in a single Olympics, turning a niche sport into appointment television.

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Born November 12, 1961, in Romania, Comăneci arrived at the 1976 Montreal Games as a 14-year-old and became the first gymnast ever awarded a 10.0 at the Olympics. She collected seven perfect scores that summer and left with three golds. Four years later in Moscow, she added two more golds and two more 10s. Her artistry didn't just win medals — it pulled global eyes to gymnastics in the mid-1970s, a shift in attention the sport had never seen. In 1989 she defected from Communist Romania, timing her escape months before the regime fell. She settled in the United States, eventually marrying Ameri…

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  • Grand Officer of the Order of the Star of Romania
  • BBC 100 Women
  • Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame
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