Teodora Ungureanu - 1976 Olympics EF - Balance Beam

[tracylyon73]

Personally I liked her beam and bars routines better than Nadia's. She was better than Nelli Kim I thought and should have had the all around silver and the gold on the beam. IMHO.

[DanoisBleu]

It is a perfect 10!

[keli59]

I think this routine deserved the perfect 10 too! lovely

[desglacons]

I saw her in competition successfully do a RO-ff-back tuck. Does anyone have the vid?

[faeryquene]

I think the 1979 World University Games (which Teodora won over the Soviets) was her last competition going by old IG1 back issues.

[ralucagymnast]

Beautiful routine, it flows wonderfully. The straddle level walkover out mount is still being used today. And I love Teo's double rotation in splitshandstand; very nice.

[lostlyrarose]

her form was as good as nadia's on bars and beam. Her beam just wasn't quite as difficult as nadia's, but I think she deserved the silver on beam over korbut.

[bbhouk1]

@lostlyrarose i think it was probably about the same difficulty because nadia had the aerial walkover but teo had the split handstand with 1 1/2 rotation which would make them about equal

nadia's dismount was harder though but teo had the half turn to back walk-over from sitting position while nadia's had no turn

i'd say they were pretty equal

[ArcasAngel]

Over thirty years ago!

[gymnasticsloverxoxo]

Should have been a 10

[sinjinthule]

There's a name people don't hear much. Kudos here, too. A very fluid, graceful routine. I like how each movement flows so smoothly into the next.

[fliptopla]

She coaching Sabrina Vega, who was on the US WAG Team in 2011. I saw Teodora on TV congratulating Sabrina after a good routine.

[isa1285]

Thank you so much for uploading this