Ana Bărbosu
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| Full name | Ana Maria Bărbosu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 July 2006 Focșani, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Focșani, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 2019 – present (ROU) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | CSS Focșani | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Lucian Sandu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assistant coach(es) | Gina Gogean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ana Maria Bărbosu (born 26 July 2006) is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She is the 2020 European junior team and all-around champion and the 2020 Romanian national all-around silver medalist
Junior gymnastics career[edit]
2017[edit]
Bărbosu competed in the Junior II Level 3 division at the 2017 Romanian Junior Championships, finishing fourth in the all-around. In event finals, she was fifth on vault and fourth on uneven bars, before she earned a silver medal on balance beam and a bronze medal on floor.[1]
2019[edit]
Bărbosu opened her season at the domestic Petrom Cup in June, winning gold in the all-around ahead of Sabrina Voinea and Maria Ceplinschi. She then won gold in the Espoir division at the 2019 Romanian Junior Championships the following week, again ahead of Voinea and Amalia Petre in third. At the senior Championships in September, Bărbosu won bronze in the all-around and on floor, while also placing sixth on vault and balance beam and seventh on uneven bars. The following month, at the Romanian Individual Championships, she nearly swept the Espoir division, winning titles in the all-around and on every event but vault, where she won silver behind Voinea.[2]
Bărbosu made her junior international debut in November at the Swiss Cup in Wallisellen, where she won gold with the Romanian team and individually in the all-around. She finished in the top two on every event.[3] Bărbosu competed at the Horizon Cup in Thessaloniki, Greece the following week, where she won the Espoir 2006 all-around title after posting the top score on every event but uneven bars.[3] She finished her international season at Top Gym in Charleroi, Belgium at the end of the month, where the combined Romanian/Singaporean team finished fourth. Individually, Bărbosu won the silver medal in the all-around between Russians Vladislava Urazova and Elena Gerasimova. In event finals, she won silver on floor, bronze on beam, and tied for bronze on bars with Lilou Besson of France.[4]
2020[edit]
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, gymnasts had limited international competitive opportunities. At the 2020 Romanian Championships, Bărbosu won the silver medal behind Silviana Sfiringu and ahead of Ioana Stănciulescu to finish as the highest-placing junior in the combined all-around final. In the junior division, she again won all-around gold and also swept the event titles. As a result, Bărbosu was named to the nominative team for the 2020 European Junior Championships alongside Iulia Trestianu, Maria Ceplinschi, Andreea Preda, and Luiza Popa.[5]
At Junior Euros, Bărbosu led the Romanian team to a gold medal finish of more than 10 points ahead of Ukraine and Hungary.[6] Individually, she won the all-around title by over 4 points ahead of teammate Ceplinschi and Daniela Batrona of Ukraine and qualified first into all four of the event finals.[7] She then won gold in all four event finals.[8]
2021[edit]
At the Romanian Championships in September, Bărbosu won the gold medal on the uneven bars, and took the silver on floor as well as in the all-around.[9] In November, she competed at the Top Gym Tournament in Belgium, where she won the all-around, and also picked up the gold medals in the uneven bars and balance beam finals.[10]
Senior gymnastics career[edit]
2022[edit]
Bărbosu became age-eligible for senior competition in 2022, and made her senior debut at the City of Jesolo Trophy, where she finished fourteenth in the all-around and eighth on the uneven bars.[11] She then competed at the Osijek World Challenge Cup, where she won the gold medal on floor exercise, and took the bronze on balance beam behind Pauline Schäfer and Ana Đerek.[12] At the European Championships in Munich, Bărbosu finished seventh in the all-around, fourth on floor, and eighth on the balance beam.[13] Ana qualified to the beam final in first place. In the floor final she scored a 13.633. Additionally, she helped Romania qualify a full team for the 2022 World Championships in Liverpool.[14] In October Bărbosu competed at the Mersin Challenge Cup where she won gold on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise. At the 2022 World Championships in Liverpool Bărbosu finished 20th in the all around final.
2023[edit]
Bărbosu competed at the 2023 European Championships where she helped Romania finish fifth as a team. Individually she finished ninth in the all-around and seventh on floor exercise. Later in the year she competed at the 2023 World Championships alongside Lilia Cosman, Amalia Ghigoarta, Sabrina Voinea, and Andreea Preda. During qualifications they finished tenth. Although they did not qualify for the team final, they qualified a team to the 2024 Olympic Games, a feat last achieved in 2012.[15] Individually Bărbosu qualified to the all-around final where she finished twenty-third.
Competitive history[edit]
| Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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| 2019 | Petrom Cup |  |
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| Top Gym | 4 | |
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| 2020 | Junior Romanian Championships | |
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| 2021 | Romanian Championships | |
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| 2022 | City of Jesolo Trophy | 4 | 14 | 8 | |||
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| European Championships | 7 | R3 | 8 | 4 | |||
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| World Championships | 20 | ||||||
| 2023 | ESP-ROU-SWE Friendly | |
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| European Championships | 5 | 9 | R3 | R1 | 7 | ||
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| Heidelberg Friendly | |
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| World Championships | 10 | 23 | |||||
Source: [2]
References[edit]
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (13 November 2017). "2017 Romanian Junior Championships Results". The Gymternet.
- ^ a b Hopkins, Lauren. "Ana Maria Barbosu". The Gymternet.
- ^ a b Hopkins, Lauren (20 December 2019). "What Have the Juniors Been Up To?". The Gymternet.
- ^ Lawrence, Blythe (1 December 2019). "Urazova oozes confidence in Top Gym win". Rocker Gymnastics.
- ^ Hopkins, Lauren (7 December 2020). "Iordache Added to Euros Team After Triumphant Comeback". The Gymternet.
- ^ "Ana Barbosu (ROU) dominates on her way to all-around and team gold". European Gymnastics. 18 December 2020.
- ^ Houston, Michael (18 December 2020). "Barbosu strikes double junior European Women's Artistic Gymnastics gold". Inside the Games.
- ^ Andronie, Alexandra (20 December 2020). "Românca Ana Bărbosu a câștigat patru medalii de aur la Europenele de gimastică pentru junioare" [Romanian Ana Bărbosu won four gold medals at the European Gymnastics Championships for juniors]. Digi24 (in Romanian).
- ^ "2021 Romanian Championships results". 19 September 2021.
- ^ "2021 Top Gym results". The Gymternet. 28 November 2021.
- ^ "2022 City of Jesolo Trophy results". The Gymternet. 11 April 2022.
- ^ "2022 Osijek Challenge Cup results". The Gymternet. 13 June 2022.
- ^ "2022 European Championships results". European Gymnastics. Retrieved 21 August 2022.
- ^ "Asia D'Amato claims women's all-around title as world qualifiers decided at 2022 European Gymnastics Championships". International Olympic Committee. 11 August 2022.
- ^ "A New Beginning – Romania clinches Olympic team berth for first time since 2012". Inside Gymnastics Magazine. October 2, 2023.