Mălina Călugăreanu

Mălina Călugăreanu (born 15 September 1996, Bucharest) is a Romanian foil fencer.

Mălina Călugăreanu
Personal information
Born (1996-09-15) 15 September 1996
Bucharest, Romania
Sport
Country Romania
SportFencing
Weaponsabre
Handleft-handed
National coachPetre Ducu
ClubCSA Steaua
Head coachPetre Ducu
Florin Gheorghe
FIE rankingcurrent ranking

Career

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]

References
  1. Mihai Dragomir (20 November 2015). "Scrimă: Mălina Călugăreanu, cea mai bună floretistă junioară din lume în sezonul 2014-2015" (in Romanian). Agerpres.
  2. Mihai Constantin (27 September 2014). "Medalie de aur cucerită de Mălina Călugăreanu în etapa de Cupa Mondială la floreta feminin juniori". Sport Total FM.
  3. "Scrimă: Mihai Covaliu vrea cel puțin o medalie la Europenele de la Zagreb". Agerpres. 14 June 2013.
  4. Cezara Paraschiv (19 May 2014). "La 18 ani, Maria Boldor a obținut primul titlu de campioană națională la floretă, proba individuală a senioarelor". ProSport.
  5. Daniel Remeș (16 November 2015). "Mălina Călugăreanu (CSA Steaua) a ocupat locul doi la etapa satelit de Cupă Mondială la floretă seniori feminin de la Ankara". Romanian Fencing Federation.
  6. "Scrimă: Floretista Mălina Călugăreanu s-a calificat la Jocurile Olimpice de la Rio". Agerpres. 17 April 2016.
  • Profile at the European Fencing Confederation
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