Ioana Crișan

Ioana Crișan
Crișan at the 2016 Romanian Championships
Personal information
Full nameIoana Teodora Crișan
Born (2001-10-15) 15 October 2001
Cluj-Napoca, Romania[1]
Gymnastics career
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented		 Romania
ClubCNS Cetate Deva

Ioana Teodora Crișan (born (2001-10-15)15 October 2001) is a Romanian retired artistic gymnast. She competed at the 2017, 2018, and 2019 World Championships. Earlier in her career, she won a team bronze medal at the 2016 Junior European Championships.

Gymnastics career

Junior

Crișan won the all-around bronze medal at the 2014 Top Gym Tournament.[2] She competed with the Romanian team that finished fourth at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival,[3] and she placed sixth in the all-around.[4]

Crișan helped the Romanian team win the bronze medal at the 2016 Junior European Championships.[5] Individually, she finished ninth in the all-around. She also qualified for the balance beam final, but she injured her shoulder and was unable to finish her routine, finishing last.[6] She won the all-around silver medal at the 2016 Romanian Championships and also won silver on the vault and bronze on the floor exercise.[7] She then won a silver medal with the Romanian team at the 2016 Gymnasiade, and she also won the all-around bronze medal.[8]

Senior

Crișan made her senior international debut at the 2017 Sainté Gym Cup, competing only on the uneven bars and balance beam. She fell off the balance beam on her acrobatic series but hit a clean uneven bars routine.[9] She then competed at the 2017 European Championships and advanced to the all-around final, finishing 18th.[10][11] She won the all-around bronze medal at the 2017 Romanian Championships, behind Larisa Iordache and Denisa Golgotă.[12] At the 2017 World Championships, she was initially the second reserve for the all-around final. However, when Ragan Smith was injured during the warm-up, Crișan was called up to compete. She ultimately finished 23rd in the final.[13]

Crișan missed the 2018 European Championships due to an injury.[1] At the 2018 Romanian Championships, she finished fifth in the all-around and won a silver medal on the vault.[14] She was then selected to compete at the 2018 World Championships along with Maria Holbură, Denisa Golgotă, Carmen Ghiciuc, and Nica Ivanus where they finished 13th and qualified as a team to the 2019 World Championships.[15]

At the 2019 Romanian Championships, Crișan placed seventh in the all-around and won a bronze medal on the vault.[16] She competed at the World Championships with Holbură, Ghiciuc, and Golgotă where they finished 22nd in the qualification round.[17] This is the lowest the Romanian women have ever placed as a team at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and they did not qualify as a team for the 2020 Summer Olympics.[18]

Competitive history

Competitive history of Ioana Crișan at the junior level[19]
Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2014 Nadia Comaneci Invitational
Elite Gym Massilia 9 26
Top Gym Tournament 4 7 5
2015 European Youth Olympic Festival 4 6 6
2016 International Gymnix 5 21
BEL-ROU Friendly
FRA-ROU Friendly
Junior European Championships 9 8
Romanian Championships 4 7
Gymnasiade 4
Junior Romanian Championships 4
Top Gym Tournament
Competitive history of Ioana Crișan at the senior level[19]
Year Event Team AA VT UB BB FX
2017
European Championships 18
Osijek World Challenge Cup 6 4 7
Romanian Championships 6 8
Paris World Challenge Cup 8
World Championships 23
2018 Romanian Championships 5 6 4
World Championships 13
2019 Romanian Championships 7
World Championships 22

References

  1. ^ a b "Crisan Ioana - FIG Athlete Profile". World Gymnastics. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  2. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (30 November 2014). "Melnikova is the 2014 Top Gym Champion". The Gymternet. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  3. ^ "Girls Teams Results" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. Tbilisi 2015. 29 July 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Girls' All-Around Final Results" (PDF). Gymnastics Results. Tbilisi 2015. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 5 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Bronz european pentru Olivia Cîmpian" [European bronze for Olivia Cîmpian]. Aradon.ro (in Romanian). 2 June 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
  6. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (16 June 2016). "Surprises on Every Podium at Junior Euros". The Gymternet. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  7. ^ "Federația de gimnastică: naționalele de la Cluj, nivel „acceptabil". Cine s-a clasat pe podium". Actual de Cluj (in Romanian). 3 July 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  8. ^ "Gimnaziada de la Trabzon. Argint cu teama în suflet. Echipa feminină de gimnastică a României, pe podium în Turcia. "Ne-au spus că dacă nu vrem, nu trebuie să concurăm"". ProSport. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  9. ^ Turner, Amanda. "France Wins Sainté Gym Cup in Saint Étienne". International Gymnast Magazine Online. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  10. ^ Lazar, Valeriu (23 April 2017). "Gymnastics, European Championships: Marian Dragulescu wins gold medal in floor event". Romania Journal. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  11. ^ Voicu, Cristian (21 April 2017). "Europeanul de la Cluj. Ioana Crișan ține România în top 20. Moment istoric pentru britanici: primul aur la individual compus" [European Championships in Cluj. Ioana Crișan keeps Romania in the top 20. Historic moment for the British: the first gold in the all-around]. ProSport (in Romanian). Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  12. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (2 September 2017). "2017 Romanian Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  13. ^ Osan, Adina (7 October 2017). "Gymnast Ioana Crişan, 23rd place in the individual-compound final as second reserve at the Montreal World Championships". News.ro. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  14. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (13 October 2018). "2018 Romanian Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  15. ^ "48th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Doha (QAT), 25 October - 3 November 2018 Women's Team Qualification" (PDF). USA Gymnastics. FIG. 27 October 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  16. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (9 September 2019). "2019 Romanian Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  17. ^ Hopkins, Lauren (17 October 2019). "2019 World Championships Results". The Gymternet. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  18. ^ "Maria Holbură goes to JO Tokyo!". Vaaju. 6 October 2019. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
  19. ^ a b "Ioana Crisan". The Gymternet. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
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