Ana Maria Barbosu, bronze medal at the individual composed in the European Championships »Romania had not climbed the podium in this twelve test

Article by Roxana Fleşeru – published on Thursday, May 29, 2025 17:07 / Updated Thursday, May 29, 2025 19:04
Ana Maria Bărbosu (18 years old) won the bronze in the final of the individual composed at the European Championships in Leipzig! Denisa Golgotă (23 years old) ranked in seventh position.
The final of the complete gymnasts also had two gymnasiums from Romania, Ana Bărbosu, qualified with the second score, and on Denisa Golgotă, who access with the eleven.
It all started from zero in the Thursday's final, which debuted with a difficult time for the German Helen Kevric. She was lying on the jumping mattress holding her knees. The next competitor was Ana Bărbosu himself, and her entrance was delayed because the intervention of the doctors was needed to help the gymnast in Germany leave the competition area.

Ana Maria Barbosu, bronze at the individual composed after 12 years for Romania to European

In a very glitter blue suit, Ana presented a jump with a difficulty of 4.800. He stuck the landing, and the referees evaluated his execution at 8.533, the total being 13.433. A note that placed it in the fourth place after the first rotation.
The parallels were the following device for Ana Bărbosu, and she had a “balanced” exercise, as the commentators of Eurovision Sport characterized. The Romanian score was 13,533, with the difficulty note 5.900 and with the execution 7,633.
The display of the note was accompanied by a wide smile from the “tricolor”. At the end of the second rotation, Ana was in second position In the standings, behind Italian Manila Esposito, having the same total, 26,966.
The hardest moment was in the beam for Ana Bărbosu. The suspense at the end was incredible!
The beam was sighing for the Romanian, descending from the device to one of the acrobatic lines and reaching it to another element, receiving only 11,633 (5,100 and 6.533). The failure removed Ana from gold, slipping into the eighth position after three rotations.
On the ground, the device at which she is bronze medals at the Paris Olympics, Ana has kept her concentration and presented an exercise full of lyricism and without major mistakes.

Ana Bărbosu obtained the highest notes in the Romanian team/photo: Getty Images
So he received 13,700 (5,500 and 8.200). The delegation of Romania was dissatisfied with the score and challenged note D, so the suspense was incredible in the Leipzig arena. The Romanian contest was rejected. After all, with a total of 52,299, she ranked third, after the Italian Manila Esposito (54,965) and Iberica Alba Petisco (53,265).
Denisa Golgotă, double European medalist in 2018 with silver on the ground and bronze, returned to gymnastics after a five -year break and qualified in the Individual final composed with the eleventh score. In the final of Thursday, she ranked seventh.
The 23 -year -old Romanca started the contest at parallels (12,966), continued with the beam (12,700), soil (12,833) and concluded at jumps (13,233), gathering 51,732 points.
The tricolor gymnasts had not climbed on the European podium to the individual composed of the 2013 edition, when Larisa Iordache won the silver medal.
The European medals of Romania at the individual compound
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Gold: Nadia Comăneci (1975, 1977, 1979), Daniela Silivaș (1987), Gina Gogean (1994)
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Silver: Elena Leuștean (1957, 1959), Emilia Eberle (1979), Cristina Grigoraș (1981), Lavinia Agache (1983), Daniela Silivaș (1989), Gina Gogean (1992), Simona Amanar (1998), Daniela Sofronie (2004), Sandra Izbașa (2007), Larisa Iordache (2013)
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Bronze: Sonia Iovan (1957, 1959), Ecaterina Szabo (1983), Vanda Hădărean (1992), Lavinia Miloșovici (1996), Claudia Presecan (1998), Amelia Racea (2011), Ana Maria Barbosu (2025)
In the finals on the devices, Romania will be represented on Saturday by Ana Bărbosu (soil and beam) and Denisa Golgotă (soil).
On Monday, Ana Bărbosu, Denisa Golgotă, Sabrina Voinea, Ella Oprea and Lilia Cosman ranked in the fourth position in the team contest. Due to the failures in the qualification contest, Sabrina Voinea, silver medal on the ground and beam in the previous edition of the European Championships, did not take any final on the devices.
The mixed team of Romania formed by Ana Maria Bărbosu and Nicholas Ţarcă has withdrawn from the mixed final on Wednesday. The men's team of Romania took 22nd place in the German race.




