Nadia Comăneci

Nadia Comăneci owns one of sport's truly mythic moments: Montreal 1976, age fourteen, the first perfect 10.0 in Olympic gymnastics history, on a scoreboard that literally could not display the number and showed 1.00 instead. And it was not a fluke; she racked up multiple tens en route to three golds. I find it astonishing that such precision emerged from a small town like Onești in Romania. What stays with me is how completely she redefined what was possible, then earned lasting respect long after, from the Gymnastics Hall of Fame to BBC 100 Women. If anyone embodies the word perfect, it is her.

Name (English)

Nadia Comăneci

Name (Japanese)

ナディア・コマネチ

Reading

なでぃあ・こまねち

Born

November 12, 1961 (age 64)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Ox

Origin

Onești, Bacău County, Romania

Height

167 cm

Occupation

artistic gymnast / athlete

Awards & achievements

• 1976 BBC World Sport Star of the Year
• 1976 Hero of Socialist Labour of Romania
• 1976 Associated Press Athlete of the Year
• 1984 Silver Olympic Order
• 1993 International Gymnastics Hall of Fame
• 2004 Silver Olympic Order
• 2013 Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame
• 2017 BBC 100 Women

• Official sitehttps://www.bartandnadia.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/comaneci10/
• Xhttps://x.com/nadiacomaneci10
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadia%20Com%C4%83neci
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8D%E3%83%81
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q33228

Tags

• Bacău County
• artistic gymnast
• athlete

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.