Maricica Puică
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Maricica Puică |
|||
| Women's Athletics | |||
Competitor for  Romania |
|||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1984 Los Angeles | 3000 m | |
| Bronze | 1984 Los Angeles | 1500 m | |
| World Championships | |||
| Silver | 1987 Rome | 3000 m | |
Maricica Puică (born July 29, 1950 in Iaşi) is a former Romanian former middle distance athlete, who won the 3000 meters gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, in a race remembered primarily for the collision of Mary Decker and Zola Budd.
In 1989 she spoke on Romanian television in support of the revolutionaries fighting against the regime of Nicolae Ceauşescu.
[edit] Reference
- IAAF profile for Maricica Puică
| Sporting positions | ||
|---|---|---|
Preceded by Yelena Sipatova |
Women's 3.000m Best Year Performance 1981 |
Succeeded by Svetlana Ulmasova |
Preceded by Grete Waitz |
IAAF Women's World Cross Country Champion 1982 |
Succeeded by Grete Waitz |
| Preceded by Grete Waitz |
IAAF Women's World Cross Country Champion 1984 |
Succeeded by Zola Budd |
|
|||||||||||
  This article about a Romanian Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
This biographical article relating to Romanian athletics (track and field) is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.Categories: 1950 births | Living people | Middle distance runners | People from Iaşi | Romanian athletes | Olympic athletes of Romania | Athletes at the 1980 Summer Olympics | Athletes at the 1984 Summer Olympics | Athletes at the 1988 Summer Olympics | Olympic gold medalists for Romania | Olympic bronze medalists for Romania | Romanian Olympic medalist stubs | Romanian athletics biography stubs
