DRAGULESCU Marian

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 18 Dec 1980

Age: 40

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.61/5'3''

Place of birth: BUCHAREST

Birth Country:

Romania

Place of residence : BUCHAREST

Residence Country:

Romania

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Gymnastics	Men's Vault

Schedule

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Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	FX	VT	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	67	4	70	-	-	-	-	-
2008	Beijing, CHN	7	4	29	-	-	-	71	7
2004	Athens, GRE	2	3	35	33	43	49	8	3
2000	Sydney, NSW, AUS	6	18	56	13	42	20	13	6

World Championships

Year	Location	FX	VT	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	33	4	-	-	-	-	-	24
2018	Doha, QAT	34	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	21
2017	Montreal, QC, CAN	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-
2015	Glasgow, GBR	116	2	135	92	117	105	52	14
2011	Tokyo, JPN	9	9	28	56	145	96	28	8
2010	Rotterdam, NED	45	17	203	-	-	-	259	9
2009	London, GBR	1	1	14	-	-	-	82	-
2006	Arhus, DEN	1	1	8	42	-	-	190	4
2005	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	7	1	32	-	-	-	58	-
2003	Anaheim, CA, USA	4	2	45	42	53	48	6	5
2002	Debrecen, HUN	1	7	-	-	-	-	-	-
2001	Ghent, BEL	1	1	49	43	92	45	9	6
1999	Tianjin, CHN	19	4	8	39	82	58	26	9

European Championships

Year	Location	FX	VT	Team
2021	Basel, SUI	-	24	-
2020	Mersin, TUR	-	4	9
2019	Szczecin, POL	26	21	-
2017	Cluj-Napoca, ROU	1	2	-

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	FX	VT
2019/2020	1 x 9th	1 x 8th
2017/2018	1 x 3rd	1 x 8th

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
3	2017/2018	Floor Exercise	Doha, QAT	14.100
8	2019/2020	Vault	Doha, QAT	13.866
8	2017/2018	Vault	Doha, QAT	13.983
9	2019/2020	Floor Exercise	Doha, QAT	14.066
10	2019/2020	Vault	Baku, AZE	14.249
19	2019/2020	Vault	Baku, AZE	13.633
26	2019/2020	Floor Exercise	Baku, AZE	13.066

Legend
FX - Floor Excercise, VT - Vault, HB - Horizontal Bar, PB - Parallel Bars, PH - Pommel Horse, SR - Rings, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Marochi (Athlete, 12 Oct 2001)

Playing football, skiing, cooking. (gymnastics.sport, 16 Jun 2020; libertatea.ro, 09 Jun 2019)

Occupation:

Physical Education - National Academy of Physical Education and Sport, Bucharest, ROU

Languages spoken:

English, Romanian

CSA Steaua Bucuresti [Romania]

1999 for Romania (sports-reference.com. 2009)

He suffered an Achilles tendon injury in his left leg in the lead-up to the 2019 European Championships in Szczecin, Poland. (libertatea.ro, 18 Apr 2019)

In 2018 a diagnosis of cardiac arrhythmia, which required minor heart surgery, meant he was not selected for the 2018 European Championships in Glasgow, Scotland. He returned to competition at the 2018 World Challenge Cup in Szombathely, Hungary. (fig-gymnastics.com, 24 Sep 2018)

He began gymnastics at age seven. (libertatea.ro, 09 Jun 2019; fig-gymnastics.com, 01 Oct 2011)

He took up gymnastics so that his father would not make him do karate. "My father was a mechanic and was fixing a car belonging to a karate coach, so he suggested I give that I try it as a form of self-defence. I did not like it so I tried swimming too. Then gymnastics coach Petre Sacerdoteanu came to my school to select children for the sport. I was the first to put my hand up as I wanted an excuse to never do karate again." (libertatea.ro, 09 Jun 2019; fig-gymnastics.com, 01 Oct 2011)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (gymnastics.sport, 16 Jun 2020)

He trains for 20 hours a week. (gymnastics.sport, 16 Jun 2020)

In 2005 and 2009 he was named Romanian Athlete of the Year. (sports-reference.com, 2009)

He was named the 2002 Gymnast of the Year by the International Press Association. (Facebook page, 01 Mar 2016)

General Interest

General
RETURN AND RETIREMENT PLANS
Shortly after the 2005 European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, he announced his retirement from gymnastics. After a brief coaching stint, he resumed training in Romania and returned to competition. He announced his retirement again after competing at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, but made his second comeback in 2015 in order to compete at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. He then decided to continue for one more Olympic cycle, and hopes to retire from the sport after winning a medal at the 2020 Games in Tokyo. "My dream is to qualify for the Olympics in Tokyo, and to finish my career beautifully. The target I set is to win an Olympic medal, maybe even a gold." (libertatea.ro, 09 Jun 2019; prosport.ro, 20 Jan 2015; FIG, 15 May 2005)

NAMED ELEMENT
The International Gymnastics Federation [FIG] has included the 'Dragulescu' in their Code of Points scoring system for vault. The element is a handspring double front somersault with a half-turn. "I am honoured and I am happy. My name is in the Code of Points, and my name will go on. It is a very beautiful vault, and it is not easy. Not everyone does it. What gymnast would not be proud if they had invented an element in gymnastics?" (fig-gymnastics.com, 16 Nov 2015, 01 Oct 2011)

Milestones

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro he became the first gymnast of either gender to represent Romania at four Olympic Games. His three medals at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens made him the second male gymnast representing Romania to win more than one Olympic medal. (SportsDeskOnline, 01 Jan 2021)

He is the most decorated male Romanian gymnast at the world championships, having claimed a total of 10 medals [eight gold and two silver] at 13 appearances at the tournament between 1999 and 2019. (SportsDeskOnline, 12 Mar 2020; libertatea.ro, 09 Jun 2019)

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Legend

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

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