Weapon(s) sabre National coach(es) Petre Ducu Height 1.76 m Martial art Fencing Country represented Romania | Hand left-handed FIE Ranking current ranking Weight 66 kg Club CSA Steaua București | |
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Born 15 September 1996 (age 20)
Bucharest, Romania ( 1996-09-15 ) Head coach(es) Petre Ducu
Florin Gheorghe | ||
Mălina Călugăreanu (born 15 September 1996, Bucharest) is a Romanian foil fencer.
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. She won her first junior World Cup tournament in 2014 in Timișoara, ending the 2014–15 season with a No. 1 position in World junior rankings.
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. 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. The same happened in 2015.
In the 2015–16 season she earned a silver medal at the World Cup satellite tournament in Ankara. In April she qualified to the Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics through a top-four finish at the Prague pre-olympic tournament.