Mălina Călugăreanu Explained

Mălina Călugăreanu
Birth Date:15 September 1996
Birth Place:Bucharest, Romania
Natlcoach:Petre Ducu
Weapon:sabre
Hand:left-handed
Club:CSA Steaua
Headcoach:Petre Ducu
Florin Gheorghe
Fieranking:current ranking

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.[1] She won her first junior World Cup tournament in 2014 in Timișoara,[2] 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.[3] 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.[4] The same happened in 2015.

In the 2015–16 season she earned a silver medal at the World Cup satellite tournament in Ankara.[5] In April she qualified to the Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics through a top-four finish at the Prague pre-olympic tournament.[6]

She competed at the 2022 World Fencing Championships held in Cairo, Egypt.

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Notes and References

  1. News: Scrimă: Mălina Călugăreanu, cea mai bună floretistă junioară din lume în sezonul 2014-2015. Mihai Dragomir. Agerpres. 20 November 2015. ro.
  2. News: Medalie de aur cucerită de Mălina Călugăreanu în etapa de Cupa Mondială la floreta feminin juniori. Mihai Constantin. Sport Total FM. 27 September 2014.
  3. News: Scrimă: Mihai Covaliu vrea cel puțin o medalie la Europenele de la Zagreb. Agerpres. 14 June 2013.
  4. News: La 18 ani, Maria Boldor a obținut primul titlu de campioană națională la floretă, proba individuală a senioarelor. ProSport. Cezara Paraschiv. 19 May 2014.
  5. Web site: Mălina Călugăreanu (CSA Steaua) a ocupat locul doi la etapa satelit de Cupă Mondială la floretă seniori feminin de la Ankara. Daniel Remeș. Romanian Fencing Federation. 16 November 2015.
  6. News: Scrimă: Floretista Mălina Călugăreanu s-a calificat la Jocurile Olimpice de la Rio. Agerpres. 17 April 2016.