Cristina Nicolau (9 August 1977, in Bucharest – 5 December 2017[1]) was a Romanian triple jumper.
Her personal best jump was 14.70 metres, achieved in August 1999 in Gothenburg. This mark places her jump third in the all-time Romanian woman triple jumper record list, only behind Rodica Mateescu and Adelina Gavrilă.[2] Cristina Nicolau died on 5 December 2017, aged 40.
| Representing | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | Seoul, South Korea | 10th | Long jump | 5.98 m (wind: -0.9 m/s) | ||
| 1994 | World Junior Championships | Lisbon, Portugal | 9th | Long jump | 6.27 m (wind: +1.9 m/s) | |
| 1996 | World Junior Championships | Sydney, Australia | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Long jump | 6.47 m (wind: +0.2 m/s) |
| bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Triple jump | 13.64 m (wind: +0.4 m/s) | |||
| 1997 | Catania, Italy | 3rd | Long jump | 6.40 m | ||
| European U23 Championships | Turku, Finland | 2nd | Long jump | 6.43 m (wind: 0.6 m/s) | ||
| 1st | Triple jump | 14.22 m (wind: 1.1 m/s) | ||||
| 1999 | European U23 Championships | Gothenburg, Sweden | 4th | Long jump | 6.50 m (wind: 0.8 m/s) | |
| bgcolor=gold | 1st | Triple jump | 14.70 m (wind: 1.3 m/s) | |||
| Seville, Spain | 8th | Triple jump | 14.38 m | |||
| 2000 | Ghent, Belgium | 2nd | Triple jump | 14.63 m | ||
| Sydney, Australia | 6th | Triple jump | 14.17 m | |||
| 2001 | Lisbon, Portugal | 6th | Triple jump | 14.05 m | ||
| Edmonton, Canada | 6th | Triple jump | 14.17 m | |||
| 2002 | Vienna, Austria | 5th | Triple jump | 14.11 m | ||
| Munich, Germany | 5th | Triple jump | 14.39 m | |||
| 2003 | Catania, Italy | 3rd | Long jump | 5.93 m | ||
| 1st | Triple jump | 13.45 m | ||||