Sport Rowing Name Elisabeta Lipa Height 1.83 m | Club Dinamo Bucuresti Role Olympic athlete Weight 80 kg | |
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Olympic medals Rowing at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women\'s eight Similar People Georgeta Damian, Doina Ignat, Viorica Susanu, Ivan Patzaichin, Silken Laumann | ||
Sport elisabeta lipa presedinte frc
Elisabeta Lipă ([elisaˈbeta ˈlipə]; born Elisabeta Oleniuc on 26 October 1964) is a retired rower and government official from Romania. She is the most decorated rower in the history of the Olympics, winning five gold, two silver and one bronze medals. She holds the record amongst rowers for the most years between gold medals, at 20 years.
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- Sport elisabeta lipa presedinte frc
- Sport elisabeta lipa la suceava
- Career
- Later life
- Elisabeta lip wins her final olympic gold women s eight athens 2004
- References
Since 2004, Lipă has served in various government positions including Minister of Youth and Sport in the current cabinet under Prime Minister Dacian Cioloș. Since 2009, she has also served as the President of the Romanian Rowing Federation and the Dinamo București Sports Club.
Sport elisabeta lipa la suceava
Career
Lipă debuted at the age of 19 at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California, where she won her first gold medal in the double sculls event. She won her most recent gold medal in the eight-oared boat at the Athens Summer Olympics in 2004. She is the only person to win a gold medal in the two premiere rowing events: the single scull and the eight oared boat. She is also one of very few women to win a gold medal in both a sculling (two oars per person) and a sweep (one oar per person) event. (Canada's Kathleen Heddle and Marnie McBean accomplished the same, sculling and sweep gold medals, in 1992 and 1996.)
In 2004, she became the first female rower to compete at six Olympics. This was first done by Czech rower Jiří Pták (cox) in 1992 and equalled in 2008 by Canadian Lesley Thompson (cox), Estonian Jüri Jaanson, and Australian James Tomkins.
Later life
She was awarded the 2008 Thomas Keller Medal at the Rowing World Cup in Lucerne. As of November 2015, she is the Romanian Minister of Youth and Sport in Cioloș Cabinet.