Károlyi was looking for gymnasts he could train from a young age. At age 6, she was chosen to attend Béla Károlyi's experimental gymnastics school after Károlyi spotted her and a friend turning cartwheels in a schoolyard. Nadia Comăneci during the European Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia in May 1977Ĭomăneci began gymnastics in kindergarten with a local team called Flacăra ("The Flame"), with coaches Duncan and Munteanu. She later worked with and married American Olympic gold-medal gymnast Bart Conner, who set up his own school. She has lived in the United States since 1989, when she defected from then-Communist Romania before its revolution in December that year. In 2000, Comăneci was named one of the Athletes of the 20th Century by the Laureus World Sports Academy. One of the world's best-known gymnasts, Comăneci, along with Olga Korbut of the Soviet Union, displayed artistry and grace, which brought unprecedented global popularity to the sport in the mid-1970s. During her career Comăneci won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals. At the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Comăneci won two more gold medals and achieved two more perfect 10s.
At the same Games ( 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal) she received six more perfect 10s for events en route to winning three gold medals. 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. Nadia Elena Comăneci Conner (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian retired gymnast and a five-time Olympic gold medalist, all in individual events.
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