Kira Irina Apostol ( rum. Chira Irina Apostol ; born , ), married Stoyan ( rum. Stoean ) - a Romanian rower , who played for the Romanian rowing team in the 1980s. Champion of the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles , world champion, winner and medalist of many regattas of national importance.
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| Club | Dynamo ( Bucharest ) |
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| Height | 180 cm |
| The weight | 78 kg |
Biography
Kira Apostol was born on June 1, 1960 in the commune of Alekseni, a priest of Yalomitsa , Romania . She was engaged in rowing in Bucharest at the Dynamo metropolitan rowing club.
The first serious success at the adult international level was achieved in the 1983 season, when she joined the main team of the Romanian national team and attended the World Championships in Duisburg , from where she brought the silver dignity won in the oar steering fours - only the crew from East Germany missed ahead in the final .
Thanks to a series of successful performances, she was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles (as a country of the socialist camp, formally, Romania boycotted these competitions for political reasons, but Romanian athletes were still allowed to compete privately). Here, the Apostle started as a part of a four-seater crew, which also included the rowers Florika Lavrik , Olga Khomegi , Maria Fritschoy and the helmsman Vyorika Jozha - in the final round, she beat all her rivals, including by more than two seconds ahead of her closest pursuers from Canada, and thereby won the gold olympic medal.
After the Los Angeles Olympics, Kira, the Apostle for some time remained in the Romanian national team and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 1985, she went to represent the country at the world championship in Hasevinkel , where she won a silver medal in the steering fours - she came to the finish line behind the team from the GDR.
In 1986, speaking under the name of her husband Stoyan, she won the world championship in Nottingham . Soon after the end of these competitions, she decided to end her sports career [1] [2] .
Notes
- ↑ Juttas Streich (German) , Neue Zeit (25 August 1986), S. 6. Date of access September 23, 2018.
- ↑ Chira Apostol . Romanian Olympic Committee
Links
- Kira Apostol - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Kira Apostol - profile on the FISA website
- Kira Apostol (English) - page on the website of the International Olympic Committee