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| Born | 11 January 1946 (1946-01-11) Bucharest, Romania | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | September 2013 (2013-10) (aged 67) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 151 cm (4 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 41 kg (90 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Elena Giurcă (11 January 1946 – September 2013) was a Romanian rowing coxswain. She took up rowing in 1966 and debuted internationally at the 1969 European Championships, winning a bronze medal in the eights. Later, she mostly competed in the quadruple sculls, finishing third and fourth at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics, respectively. She also won silver medals in this event at the 1974 and 1977 world championships.
In 1969, Giurcă graduated in English from the University of Bucharest, and later taught English at a military academy. She died aged 67 after surgery for a brain aneurysm.
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Elena Giurcă". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
- ^ "Elena Giurcă, cârmaci de legendă al canotajului românesc" [Elena Giurcă, legendary helmsman of Romanian rowing]. zch.ro (in Romanian). 6 October 2013.
- "Elena Giruca". Romanian Olympic Committee.
- "Rudern – Weltmeisterschaften – Doppelvierer – Damen" [Rowing - World Championships - quadruples - women]. "Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Achter)" [Rowing - European Championships (Women - Eight)]. sport-komplett.de (in German).
- "Elena GIURCA". World Rowing. Archived from the original on 27 March 2019.
External links
- Elena Giurca at World Rowing
- Elena Giurca at Olympics.com
- Elena Giurca at the Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (in Romanian) (archived)
- Elena Giurcă at Olympedia (archive)
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- 1946 births
- 2013 deaths
- Romanian female rowers
- Coxswains (rowing)
- Olympic rowers for Romania
- Rowers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Romania
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- World Rowing Championships medalists for Romania
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- Rowers from Bucharest
- 20th-century Romanian sportswomen
- Romanian Olympic medalist stubs
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