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Born | Bucharest, Romania | 15 September 1996||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
Weapon | sabre | ||||||||||||||
Hand | left-handed | ||||||||||||||
National coach | Petre Ducu | ||||||||||||||
Club | CSA Steaua | ||||||||||||||
Head coach | Petre Ducu Florin Gheorghe | ||||||||||||||
FIE ranking | current ranking | ||||||||||||||
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Mălina Călugăreanu (born 15 September 1996, Bucharest) is a Romanian foil fencer.
Călugăreanu took up fencing at the age of twelve under the guiding of Petre Ducu and Florin Gheorghe, who remain her coaches as of 2016. [1] She won her first junior World Cup tournament in 2014 in Timișoara, [2] ending the 2014–15 season with a No. 1 position in World junior rankings. [1]
She took part in her first senior competitions during the 2011–12 season and she joined the senior Romanian national team for the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb. [3] In 2014, she won the silver medal at the Romanian championships, after losing in the final to Steaua teammate Maria Boldor. They went on to win the team gold medal together. [4] The same happened in 2015.
In the 2015–16 season she earned a silver medal at the World Cup satellite tournament in Ankara. [5] In April she qualified to the Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics through a top-four finish at the Prague pre-olympic tournament. [6]
She competed at the 2022 World Fencing Championships held in Cairo, Egypt.