Gabriela Vănoagă | ||||||||||||
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Full name | Alexia Gabriela Vănoagă | |||||||||||
Country represented | Romania | |||||||||||
Born | Constanța, Romania | 21 October 2008|||||||||||
Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||
Level | Junior International Elite | |||||||||||
Years on national team | 2021 - present ( ROU) | |||||||||||
Club | Farul Constanta | |||||||||||
Head coach(es) | Ciprian Cretu | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Alexia Gabriela Vănoagă (born 21 October 2008) [1] is a Romanian artistic gymnast. She is the 2023 Junior World and 2023 European Youth Olympic Festival balance beam silver medalist.
Vănoagă won the all-around silver medal in the level 5 division at the 2021 Romanian Junior Championships. [2] She then made her international debut at the FIT Challenge and won the bronze medal with the Romanian junior team. Individually, she finished 19th in the all-around, eighth in the uneven bars final, and seventh in the floor exercise final. [3] Then at the senior-level Romanian Championships, she finished ninth all-around. [4]
Vănoagă began the 2022 season at a friendly meet against Hungary in Tata. The Romanian team won, and Vănoagă won the all-around gold medal. [5] She then finished seventh all-around at the Romanian Junior Championships due to mistakes on the uneven bars. [6] She once again finished seventh in the all-around at the Petrom Cup. [7] At the senior-level Romanian Championships, she finished eighth in the all-around and in the vault final and sixth in the balance beam final. In the floor exercise final, she won the silver medal behind Amalia Ghigoarta. [8] She then competed at the Tournoi International in Combs-la-Ville, France. After only scoring 8.366 on the uneven bars, she finished 20th in the all-around and sixth with her team. [9] She won the all-around title at the Romanian Junior Individual Championships. [10]
Vănoagă began the 2023 season at the DTB Pokal Team Challenge and helped the Romanian junior team place sixth. Individually, she finished sixth in the all-around and fourth in the balance beam final. [11] She was selected to compete at the 2023 Junior World Championships alongside Crina Tudor and Anamaria Mihăescu, and the team finished in eighth place. [12] Individually, she qualified for the balance beam final in fourth place. [13] In the event final, she won the silver medal behind Yu Hanyue with a score of 12.833. [14] She also qualified for the all-around final where she finished 17th. [15] She won Romania's only medal at the Junior World Championships. [16]
Vănoagă won the all-around silver medal at the Rising Stars Trophy in Bucharest behind Croatian Mila Prpic. [17] She was then selected to compete at the European Youth Olympic Festival, and she was selected as one of Romania's flag bearers for the opening ceremony. [18] She qualified for the all-around final where she finished seventh. [19] She then won the silver medal in the balance beam final behind Germany's Helen Kevric with a score of 12.866. [20] She finished sixth in the floor exercise final with a score of 12.366. [21]
Year | Event | Team | AA | VT | UB | BB | FX |
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Junior | |||||||
2021 | Romanian Junior Championships | ||||||
FIT Challenge | 19 | 8 | 7 | ||||
Romanian Championships | 9 | ||||||
2022 | Tata Junior Friendly | ||||||
Romanian Junior Championships | 7 | ||||||
Petrom Cup | 7 | ||||||
Romanian Championships | 8 | 8 | 6 | ||||
Tournoi International | 6 | 20 | |||||
Romanian Junior Individual Championships | |||||||
2023 | DTB Pokal Stuttgart | 6 | 6 | 4 | |||
Junior World Championships | 8 | 17 | |||||
Rising Stars Trophy | |||||||
European Youth Olympic Festival | 6 | 7 | 6 | ||||
Senior | |||||||
2024 | DTB Pokal Team Challenge | 9 | |||||
RomGym Trophy | 12 |