Aurelia Dobre

Aurelia Dobre
Aurelia Dobre
Full name	Aurelia Dobre
Country represented	Romania
Born	November 16, 1972 (age 39); Bucharest, Romania
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior International
Gym	Deva National Training Center
Head coach(es)	Adrian Goreac
Retired	1989
Olympic Games
World Championships

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Aurelia Dobre (born November 16, 1972 in Bucharest) is a former artistic gymnast from Romania, who was the 1987 World Champion. She is still held in high esteem by many gymnastics fans today for her clean technique as well as balletic and artistic flair. She was also 1st on balance beam, 3rd on vault and floor exercise in event finals and scored a total of 5 "perfect 10's" at these championships.

For years, she was thought to be the youngest artistic gymnastics World Champion ever, winning her title at the age of 14 years and 352 days, until it was found that 1981 World Champion Olga Bicherova's age had been falsified^{[citation needed]} – Bicherova was only thirteen when she won her World title.

Unfortunately, Aurelia's career was quite short because of two major injuries. However she was a member of the silver medal winning team in the Seoul Olympic Games and the 1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

Aurelia moved to America in 1991 and in 1992 she married Boz Mofid; they have 4 sons, Cyrus, Darius and twins Lucas and Marcus. Aurelia Dobre is a choreographer and dance coach at her husbands gym in Maryland.

Most recently Aurelia was honored with an award at the Romanian Gymnastics Federations 100 year anniversary celebrations ^[1] and also recognised as one of the Romanian gymnasts to have scored a "perfect 10" ^[2]