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RODICA DUNCA
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First int. event
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Favourite tricks: beam
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1979 Int'l Jr Meet, Yokohama, Japan:
1st BB, 2nd All-Around, 3rd FX
1979 ROM vs GBR: 1st Team, 5th All-Around
1979 World Championships, Fort Worth, TX, USA: 1st Team, 5th
All-Around 1980 ROM vs GBR: 1st Team, 5th All-Around
1980 Champions All: 1st All-Around
1980 Olympics, Moscow, Russia: 2nd Team, 7th All-Around
1981 Europeans, Madrid, Spain: 3rd BB, 4th All-Around, 7th
VT
1981 World Championships, Moscow, Russia: 4th Team, 5th FX,
6th All-Around, 8th BB
1982 World Cup, Zagreb, Croatia: 14th All-Around
Rodica's last major competition was the 1982 World Cup, after
which she announced her retirement. According to World Gymnastics
magazine, Rodica had her misgivings and resumed training shortly
thereafter.
Instead of training with the rest of the National team though,
she chose to return to CSS Baia Mare and train with her original
coach, Elena Marinescu. Unfortunately, Rodica's comeback proved
short lived and she resumed concentration on her correspondance
studies through the College of Physical Education of Bucharest.
In their July 1987 update about the Romanian women's 1979
World team members, International Gymnast magazine reported
that Rodica had met and married Zoltan Papp, a choreographer
for the Baia Mare Theater. Rodica was working on the technical
team for CSS Baia Mare, the sports club at which she began
her gymnastics career. In this role she was responsible for
scouting new talent.
Rodica is currently coaching at CSS Baia Mare. In response
to the Raducan drug scandle at the 2000 Olympics, Rodica proclaimed
to Andreea Raducan, "You're our champion, regardless of what
happens!"
Romanian Gymnastics News Archive.
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