Sonia Iovan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Sonia Iovan-Inovan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | 29 September 1935|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 6 September 2024 La Chapelle-de-Brain, France | (aged 88)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.50 m (4 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 48 kg (106 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sonia Iovan-Inovan (29 September 1935 – 6 September 2024) was a Romanian artistic gymnast who competed at the 1956, 1960, and 1964 Olympic Games.[1] She was a double Olympic bronze medalist, a bronze world medalist and a multiple European medalist.[2][3][4][5] Iovan died in France on 6 September 2024, at the age of 88.[6]
References
[edit]Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sonia Iovan.
- ^ Sonia Iovan-Inovan. Sports Reference
- ^ Gymn Forum Results 1957 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Women’s All Around
- ^ Gymn Forum Results 1957 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Women’s Events Finals
- ^ Gymn Forum Results 1959 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Women’s All Around
- ^ Gymn Forum Results 1959 European Artistic Gymnastics Championships Women’s Events Finals
- ^ "A murit Sonia Iovan, prima medaliată olimpică la gimnastică a României". Mediafax. 6 September 2024. Retrieved 6 September 2024.
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- 1935 births
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- Sportspeople from Cluj-Napoca
- Romanian female artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts for Romania
- Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
- Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Romanian sportswomen
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- Romanian Olympic medalist stubs