Nadia Comaneci Inspires Me

Nadia was born November 12, 1961 and  is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She is also the first female gymnast to be awarded with a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

Nadia Becoming A Star!

Nadia Comaneci was only 6 years of age when she was chosen to attend Bela Karolyi’s experimental gymnastic school after Karolyi (gymnast coach) spotted her with her friend playing cartwheels at the school yard
. Karolyi wanted to teach young kids gymnastic and wanted some students to join her club, and when she saw the two little girls playing cartwheels outside, she stopped and went straight to their school to find the two young girls.

Karolyi knew it was going to be hard to find these two girls that were playing outside and then thought to herself ,“How could I find these two girls?” She thought. Then she asked the classroom,“ Who here likes gymnastics?" As soon as she said it, two little girls popped up quickly and said,“ Us, us, us, us, us!” Karolyi knew straight away that they were the girls playing outside. Karolyi then asked them if they would like to join her club and they said YES! they were very excited and couldn’t wait until they had their first practise.

As the girls trained with Karolyi everyday, they became better and better. Karolyi said that one of the girls were very promising and the other was Nadia.  Nadia had been training with Karolyi ever since she was 6 years of age . She was one of the first students at the gymnastics school established in Onești. Nadia placed 13th in her first romanian national championships in 1969 at the age of just 8.

A year later in 1970 she began competing as a member of her hometown team and became the youngest gymnast ever to win the romanian nationals. 1971 was the first time she participated in her international competition and ended up winning her first all-round title contributing to the team gold.

Nadia comaneci is now known all over the world and is an inspiration for many people. Nadia was the winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and is the first female gymnast to be awarded with a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is also the winner of two gold medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. She is one of the best-known gymnasts in the world.


Nadia inspires me because she was the youngest gymnast ever to compete in the romanian nationals and win! She is also inspiring because even though she was the youngest gymnast, she had lots of faith in herself and she was always going for gold .She ended up being the first gymnast to score the perfect 10.0 . Nadia also strived for succeed and Never gave up.


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