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Former runner Gabriela Szabo is not just an Olympic gold medalist but also a 3-time World Champion. The Romanian-Hungarian sportsperson also has 4 World Indoor Championship gold medals in her kitty. She made headlines after she collided with Ghanaian long-jumper Kofi Amoah Prah in Stuttgart, while she was leaving the track.
Iolanda Balas was a Romanian athlete who specialized in high jump. She is best known for winning a gold medal at the 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games; she was the first woman from Romania to win an Olympic gold. A two-time European champion and former world record holder, Balas is counted among the greatest high jumpers of the 20th century.
Daniela Costian made headlines when she became the first discus thrower from Australia to earn an Olympic medal, with her bronze in Barcelona in 1992. She has a World Championship silver and a Commonwealth Games gold in her kitty, too. A Romanian by birth, she took up an Australian citizenship later.
Fița Lovin is a Romanian former athlete who specialized in middle-distance running. She is best known for winning the bronze medal in the women's 800 metres event at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Fița Lovin also won medals at the World Cross Country Championships, World Indoor Games, and European Athletics Indoor Championships.
Romanian high jumper Ştefan Vasilache has not just been a World Indoor Championship bronze medalist but has also secured the national championship title in 1996 and every year from 2000 to 2006. He also made it to the qualification round of the Olympics in 2004 but could not go past it.
