Viorica Viscopoleanu
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Born | August 8, 1939 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Viorica Viscopoleanu (née Belmega, born August 8, 1939) is a Romanian athlete who competed mainly in the long jump.
She was born in Budinet, then in Romania, now in Ukraine.
Viscopoleanu competed for Romania at the 1968 Summer Olympics held in Mexico City, Mexico in the women's long jump event. She won the gold medal with a jump of 6.82 which bettered the world record set by Mary Rand at the previous Olympics.
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- 1939 births
- Living people
- Romanian long jumpers
- Olympic athletes of Romania
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Romania
- Former world record holders in athletics (track and field)
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- People from Storozhynets Raion
- Romanian Olympic medalist stubs
- Romanian athletics biography stubs