Marian Oprea
File:Marian Oprea 2015.jpg
Marian Oprea in 2015
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Born | Pitești, Romania |
6 June 1982
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) |
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Sport | Triple jump |
Club | Rapid Bucureşti CSM Arad |
Medal record
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Marian Oprea (born 6 June 1982) is a Romanian athlete, competing in triple jump, who won the silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Games. His personal best is 17.81 meters.[1]
Oprea was born in Piteşti. He took his first major medal at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics, winning the gold with a jump of 16.41 m. Oprea won the bronze medal in the triple jump at the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki and also at the 2006 European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg.
He suffered a serious knee injury (tendonitis) and missed the 2009 World Championships in Athletics as a result.[2] He opted to undergo major surgery and brought an end to a two-year-long injury hiatus with a jump of 16.88 m in May 2010.[3] He proved himself to return to peak fitness with a silver medal performance at the 2010 European Athletics Championships (jumping 17.51 m) and then taking the gold medal at the 2010 IAAF Continental Cup later that season.
Achievements
References
- ↑ Marian Oprea. sports-reference.com
- ↑ Gatlin Gets a Hearing, EME News, by Alfons Juck, Notes by Larry Eder. Run Blog Run. Retrieved on 15 February 2010.
- ↑ Romania's Oprea jumps back into medal contention . European Athletics (21 May 2010). Retrieved on 2011-01-27.
External links
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- Marian Oprea profile at IAAF
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- Living people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Romania
- Olympic silver medalists for Romania
- People from Pitești
- Romanian triple jumpers
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- World Championships in Athletics medalists
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- World Championships in Athletics athletes for Romania
- Romanian Olympic medalist stubs
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- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics