Suzana Ardeleanu

Suzana Ardeleanu
Full name	Suzana Clara Tași-Ardeleanu
Born	(1946-03-08) 8 March 1946 (age 78) Satu Mare, Romania
Height	1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Sport
Weapon	foil
Hand	right-handed
Club	CSA Steaua București
Retired	1980
Medal record Women's foil Representing  Romania World Championships 1969 Havana Team foil 1973 Gothenburg Team foil 1974 Grenoble Team foil 1975 Budapest Team foil 1977 Buenos Aires Team foil 1978 Hamburg Team foil

Suzana Ardeleanu (née Suzana Tași; born 8 March 1946) is a Romanian fencer. She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Career

Ardeleanu learnt fencing at a local club under coach Alexandru Csipler.^[2] She transferred in 1964 along with Ecaterina Iencic and Ileana Gyulai to CSA Steaua București, which are related to the football team Steaua Bucharest, where she was trained by Andrei Vâlcea. Along with Olga Szabo, Maria Vicol, Ana Ene-Derșidan and Ileana Gyulai, she became team world champion at the 1969 World Fencing Championships in Havana.

She retired as an athlete after the 1980 Summer Olympics and became a fencing coach in Satu Mare along with her husband, foil fencer Ștefan Ardeleanu.^[2]

References

1. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Suzana Ardeleanu". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 April 2011.
2. Nicu, Alexe, ed. (2002), "Federația Română de Scrimă", Educației Fizice și Sportului din România (pdf) (in Romanian), vol. 1, Bucharest: Aramis, pp. 1036–37

External links

• Suzana Ardeleanu at Olympedia