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Nadia Comăneci

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Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner (née Comăneci; born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian retired gymnast. She is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events. In 1976, at the age of 14, Comăneci was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the Olympic Games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nadia Comăneci has received more than 8,294,712 page views. Her biography is available in 77 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Nadia Comăneci is the most popular gymnast, the 29th most popular biography from Romania (down from 27th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Gymnast.

Nadia Comăneci is most famous for being the youngest person to ever win an Olympic gold medal in gymnastics, at age 14.

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  • 3.99

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Nadia Comăneci ranks 1 out of 370. After her are Larisa Latynina, Olga Korbut, Věra Čáslavská, Carl Schuhmann, Ágnes Keleti, Margit Korondi, Hermann Weingärtner, Alfred Flatow, Sawao Kato, Boris Shakhlin, and Nikolai Andrianov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1961, Nadia Comăneci ranks 8. Before her are Barack Obama, Yevgeny Prigozhin, Ilham Aliyev, Lothar Matthäus, George Clooney, and Stephen Hillenburg. After her are Eddie Murphy, Joko Widodo, Michael J. Fox, Enya, Carl Lewis, and Julia Gillard.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Nadia Comăneci ranks 29 out of 844. Before her are Herta Müller (1953), Ion Iliescu (1930), Vlad II Dracul (1395), György Ligeti (1923), Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), and Klaus Iohannis (1959). After her are Gheorghe Hagi (1965), Elie Wiesel (1928), Michael the Brave (1558), Jacob L. Moreno (1889), Álmos (820), and George Enescu (1881).

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Among GYMNASTS In Romania

Among gymnasts born in Romania, Nadia Comăneci ranks 1. After her are Ecaterina Szabo (1967), Daniela Silivaș (1972), Cătălina Ponor (1987), Simona Amânar (1979), Mariana Constantin (1960), Andreea Răducan (1983), Lavinia Miloșovici (1976), Simona Păucă (1969), Lavinia Agache (1968), Gabriela Potorac (1973), and Marius Urzică (1975).

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