Suzana Ardeleanu

Suzana Ardeleanu
Full name Suzana Clara Tași-Ardeleanu
Born (1946-03-08) 8 March 1946
Satu Mare, Romania
Weapon(s) foil
Hand right-handed
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Club CSA Steaua București
Retired 1980

Suzana Ardeleanu (née Suzana Tași; born 8 March 1946) is a Romanian fencer. She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1980 Summer Olympics.[1]

Career

Ardeleanu learnt fencing at a local club under coach Alexandru Csipler.[2] She transferred in 1964 along with Ecaterina Iencic and Ileana Gyulai to CSA Steaua București, where she was trained by Andrei Vâlcea. Along with Olga Szabo, Maria Vicol, Ana Ene-Derșidan and Ileana Gyulai, she became team world champion at the 1969 World Fencing Championships in Havana.

She retired as an athlete after the 1980 Summer Olympics and became a fencing coach in Satu Mare along with her husband, foil fencer Ștefan Ardeleanu.[2]

References

  1. "Suzana Ardeleanu". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2011-04-25.
  2. 1 2 Nicu, Alexe, ed. (2002), "Federația Română de Scrimă", Educației Fizice și Sportului din România (pdf) (in Romanian), 1, Bucharest: Aramis, pp. 1036–37
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