Nicoleta Grasu
Appearance
![]() Nicoleta Grasu at 2012 Bislett Games | |
Personal information | |
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Birth name | Lenuța Nicoleta Grǎdinaru |
Full name | Lenuța Nicoleta Grasu |
Nationality | Romanian |
Born | Secuieni, Romania | 11 September 1971
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 100 kg (220 lb) |
Spouse | Costel Grasu |
Sport | |
Country | ![]() |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Discus |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best | 68.80 m (1999) |
Medal record | |
Updated on 14 August 2012 |
Lenuţa Nicoleta Grasu is a retired Romanian discus thrower. She was born on 11 September 1971 in Secuieni as Nicoleta Grădinaru, but took a new surname when she married fellow discus thrower Costel Grasu.
Grasu is best known for winning medals at the 1999 and 2001 World Championships. A few years followed without any international medals, but she did finish sixth at the 2004 Summer Olympics and fifth at the 2005 World Championships. In 2006, she returned to the medal podium with a bronze at the European Championships.
Her personal best throw is 68.80 metres, achieved in August 1999 in Poiana Braşov.
International competitions
Personal
Nicoleta and Costel's child Ștefan Grasu is a professional basketball player.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nicoleta Grasu.
- Nicoleta Grasu at World Athletics
- Nicoleta Grădinaru-Grasu at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
Categories:
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Romanian female discus throwers
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes for Romania
- World Athletics Championships medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Universiade medalists in athletics (track and field)
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for Romania
- Universiade bronze medalists for Romania
- Medalists at the 1997 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 1999 Summer Universiade
- Sportspeople from Neamț County
- Romanian athletics biography stubs