Name: OANA MIHAELA BAN          

Nickname: Banutz

Date of Birth:11-Jan-1986  
Place of Birth:Cluj-Napoca     
Hometown: Cluj-Napoca (ROM)

Gender: Female   
Height: 139.ocm/ 4.6ft    
Weight: 36.0kg/ 79.4lb.

Marital Status: single   

Children: none    

Profession: student

Start discipline:1990   
First Int.Event: 2000  

Nat.team since:       

Club:Cluj

Head coach: Octavian Belu  
Assistant coach: Sandu Lucian   
Choreographer: Maria Bitang

Best apparatus: Beam, Floor   
Music: La Banuba

 

 

 

 

 

Cat. Rank-F Score-F Rank-Q Score-Q Year Place Description
All Around      3   37.975 2004 ATHENS Olympics
Team     1 114.283     1 152.436 2004 ATHENS Olympics
All Around     6  37.262   14 36.199 2003 ANAHEIM World
Champion.
Team     2 110.833     2 148.120 2003 ANAHEIM World
Champion.
Balance
Beam		     2     9.475   2003 STUTTGART World
Cup/Series
Floor
Exercise		     5     8.812   2003 STUTTGART World Cup/Series
Balance
Beam		     5     8.325    5     9.125 2003 Paris World Cup/Series
Floor Exercise     6     8.975    6     9.100 2003 Paris World Cup/Series
Balance
Beam		     2     8.762    8     8.500 2003 Cottbus World Cup/Series
Floor Exercise     6     8.975    8     9.050 2003 Cottbus World Cup/Series
Balance
Beam		     1     9.325    7     9.100 2003 THESSALONIKI World Cup/Series
Floor Exercise     3     9.225    5     9.100 2003 THESSALONIKI World Cup/Series
Balance
Beam		     2     9.350    4     9.287 2002  DEBRECEN World
Champion
Floor Exercise    4     9.275     5     9.337 2002  DEBRECEN World
Champion


Skills

VT: tucked 1/1 Lucconi = 9.8 SV [2004 Romanian Nationals]

UB: jump to handstand, clear hip shoot (D + C = .2); kip, cast to handstand, giant 1 1/2 to mixed L-grip, front giant full to mixed L-grip, Jaeger (D + C + D = .4); kip, cast to handstand, overshoot to handstand, toe-shoot to high bar (D + C = .2); kip, cast to handstand, giant 1/1, Tkatchev (C + D = .2); kip, cast to handstand, giant, giant, tucked full-in (D = .1) = 9.9 SV [2004 Romanian International]

BB: flip flop, flip flop, 2 foot layout (B + B + D = .2); front aerial (D = .1); punch front, back handspring, back pike (D + B + C = .3); full turn; switch leap, 1-armed flip flop, layout stepout (C + C + C = .2); switch side leap (D = .1); flip flop, flip flop, double tuck (B + B + D = .2) = 9.9 SV [2004 Blume Memorial]

FX: double turn, tuck jump 2/1 (C + D = .2); roundoff, flip flop, double arabian (E = .2); Gogean, Popa (D + C = .2); cat leap 2/1 (D = .1); roundoff, flip flop, tucked full-in (E = .2); switch leap, split leap; roundoff, whip, whip, flip flop, double pike (A + A through to D = .2) = 9.9 SV [2004 Romanian Nationals]

Credits: Romanian Gymnastics