Nadia Comăneci was a highly successful Romanian gymnast, winning three gold medals at the 1976 Olympics and becoming the first female gymnast to score a perfect 10. Ilie Năstase was a top Romanian tennis player, ranked world no. 1 in 1973-1974 and winning two Grand Slam singles titles and three doubles titles. Lia Manoliu was a Romanian discus thrower who won one gold and two bronze medals over six Olympic appearances from 1952-1964.

1. By Bîzoi Alexandru-Ștefan
& Florescu Mihai Marius

2. Nadia
Comăneci
• Nadia Elena Comăneci : ( born
November 12, 1961) is a Romanian
former gymnast, winner of three
Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer
Olympics in Montreal and the first female
gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of
10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She also
won two gold medals at the 1980 Summer
Olympics in Moscow. She is one of the
best-known gymnasts in the world. In
2000 Comăneci was named as one of the
Athletes of the Century by the Laureus
World Sports Academy.

3. Ilie Năstase
• Ilie Năstase :( born 19 July 1946) is a
Romanian former world No.
1 professional tennis player, one of the world's
top players of the 1970s. Năstase was ranked
world No. 1 between 1973 (23 August) and 1974
(2 June). He is one of the five players in history
to win more than 100 ATP professional titles
(58 singles and 45 in doubles). He was inducted
into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in
1991. Năstase won seven Grand Slam titles: two
in singles, three in men's doubles, and two in
mixed doubles. He also won four Masters
Grand Prix yea-end championship titles and
seven Championship Series titles (1970–73),
the precursors to the current Masters 1000. In
2005, Tennis magazine ranked him as the 28th-
best player of the preceding 40 years. He is the
second male player to win a Grand Slam event
without dropping a set and the first one to
achieve this feat at the French Open (1973).

4. Lia Manoliu
• Lia Manoliu (April 25, 1932 in Chişinău, now Republic of Moldova – January 9,
1998 in Bucharest) was a Romanian discus thrower who won three Olympic medals,
including one gold. She was the first Track & Field athlete to compete at six
Olympics.
Lia started her Olympic career at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where she
finished 6th with a throw of 42.64m.
• She bettered this distance at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia,
throwing 43.90m for a ninth place finish. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome,
she held the lead after the first round with a throw of 52.36m, and although she was
unable to improve upon this in subsequent rounds, the throw was sufficient to earn
her the bronze medal. At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Manoliu was lying in
fourth place after round four, but she produced a throw of 56.96m on her fifth
attempt to gain her second Olympic bronze medal.

5. Gheorghe Hagi
• Gheorghe Hagi is a Romanian former footballer,
considered the best attacking midfielder in Europe during
the 1980s and 1990s and the greatest Romanian footballer
of all time. Galatasaray fans called him 'Comandante' (The
Commander) and Romanians called him 'Regele' (The
King).
• Nicknamed "The Maradona of the Carpathians", Hagi is
considered a hero in his homeland. He was named
Romanian Footballer of the Year seven times, and is
regarded as one of the best football players of his
generation. He was renowned for his technique, vision,
passing and finishing.
• Hagi played for the Romanian national team in
three World Cups in1990, 1994 (where he was named in
the World Cup All-Star Team) and 1998, as well as in
three European Football
Championships in1984, 1996 and 2000. He won a total of
137 caps for Romania, ranked second after Dorinel
Munteanu, and is the joint leading goal scorer
(alongside Adrian Mutu) with 35 goals.

6. MIRCEA LUCESCU
Is a Romanian former footballer and
manager of Ukrainean Premier League
side Shakhtar Donetsk with whom he
won the UEFA Cup 2008 – 2009. He was
named Romanian Coach of the Year in
2004, 2010, 2012 and 2014. In 2013
Lucescu was awarded the manager of the
decade award in Romania.
 He is one of the most appreciated
Romanian football coaches of all times.
He still holds the record for leading the
most numerous games, namely 59, in his
quality of coach of the Romanian
National Football Team.

7. Lucian Bute
•He is a Romanian boxer who presently
holds the NABF belt at the semi-heavy
category. He was also the IBF world
champion at the super-medium category
for almost 5 years, a period in which he
defended his title for 9 times. As an
amateur, Lucian Bute won the bronze
medal at the 1999 World Amateur Boxing
Championships in Houston, Texas and the
gold medal at the 2001 Francophone
Games. Bute also represented Romania at
the 2003 World Amateur Boxing
Championships in Bangkok, Thailand as a
middleweight.