FILIP Ana Maria

Date of Birth: 20 Jun 1989

Age: 32

Gender: Female

Height (m/ft): 1.95/6'4''

Place of birth: BUCHAREST

Birth Country:

Romania

Place of residence : PARIS

Residence Country:

France

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
3x3 Basketball	Women FRA France	4

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Women's Pool Round #10 USA United States 17 FRA France 10	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Women's Pool Round #14 FRA France 19 ITA Italy 16	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Women's Pool Round #26 JPN Japan 19 FRA France 15	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Women's Pool Round #29 CHN China 20 FRA France 13	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Women's Pool Round #41 FRA France 22 MGL Mongolia 18	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Women's Pool Round #46 FRA France 17 ROC ROC 14	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Women's Pool Round #53 FRA France 22 ROU Romania 12	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Women's Quarterfinal #57 JPN Japan 14 FRA France 16	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Women's Semifinal #61 USA United States 18 FRA France 16	Finished
	Aomi Urban Sports Park	Women's Bronze Medal Game #65 FRA France 14 CHN China 16	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

3x3 World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2019	Netherlands

3x3 Europe Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women	2019	Hungary
1	Women	2018	Romania
4	Women	2017	Netherlands

Previous names:

Ana Maria Cata-Chitiga

Occupation:

Marketing - ENACO Online Business School, France

Languages spoken:

English, French, Italian, Romanian, Spanish

Poitiers Medley [France]

Richard Billant [national], FRA

Sporting relatives:

Her mother Camelia Elena Filip played basketball for Romania. Her father Marius Cata-Chitiga represented Romania in volleyball and won bronze at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow. (libertatea.ro, 12 Jun 2015; SportsDeskOnline, 01 Sep 2020)

Other sports:

She has played 5-on-5 basketball internationally for France, and won silver at the 2015 European Championship in Romania and Hungary. She has also played at club level in France and Poland. (basketlfb.com, 01 Mar 2020; SportsDeskOnline, 01 Sep 2020)

She sustained an ankle injury in September 2015. (insidebasketeurope.com, 30 Sep 2015)

She began playing basketball at age nine in France. (La Voix du Nord, 09 Dec 2009)

She initially practised gymnastics but became too tall for the sport, so she followed her mother into basketball. "My mother measured 185 centimetres, and my father two metres. When I was very young I knew I would become tall. Because of my size, I gave up gymnastics, my first sport. Everyone knew I could not be the new Nadia Comaneci." She took up 3x3 basketball to try something new. "I wanted to try another sort of the game to get out of the routine that I had with 5-on-5 basketball. It has enriched me as a person and as an athlete. 3x3 basketball is like a big family." (parlonssports.fr, 09 Jul 2019; La Voix du Nord, 09 Dec 2009)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. She hopes to become a fitness coach once she retires from competitive action. (sport.fr, 01 Nov 2019)

Winning gold at the 2018 Europe Cup in Bucharest, Romania. (sport.fr, 01 Nov 2019)

She was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] of the 2019 Europe Cup in Debrecen, Hungary. (actu.fr, 19 Apr 2020)

General Interest

General
5-ON-5 CAREER
Besides playing 5-on-5 basketball internationally, she has played in the French Ligue Feminine de Basketball for clubs including Bourges Basket, ESB Villeneuve d'Ascq, Tarbes Gespe Bigorre and Flammes Carolo. In 2019 she spent time playing with Polish Basket Liga Kobiet side CCC Polkowice before returning to France. In April 2020 she signed with Basket Lattes Montpellier. (basketlfb.com, 01 Mar 2020; actu.fr, 19 Apr 2020)

FROM ROMANIA TO FRANCE
Born in Bucharest, Romania, at age five she relocated to France alongside her mother, who had just signed a professional basketball contract with the Lyon club. In 2003 she received French citizenship. "I was born in Bucharest, I still have family there and I go down there on a regular basis. But I feel 100 per cent French. France is where I learned to play basketball, and that's why I chose to play for France." (basketeurope.com, 14 Aug 2019; sport.fr, 01 Nov 2019; ladepeche.fr, 25 May 2015; libertatea.ro, 12 Jun 2015)

Social Media

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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