| Rank | Event | Year | Location | Result |
| Olympic Games | ||||
| 1 | Beam | 2004 | Athens, GRE | 9.787 |
| 1 | Floor Exercise | 2004 | Athens, GRE | 9.750 |
| 1 | Team | 2004 | Athens, GRE | 114.283 |
| Qualification | Individual All-Around | 2004 | Athens, GRE | 28.962 |
| World Championships | ||||
| 2 | Beam | 2003 | Anaheim, CA, USA | 9.587 |
| 2 | Floor Exercise | 2003 | Anaheim, CA, USA | 9.700 |
| 2 | Team | 2003 | Anaheim, CA, USA | 110.833 |
| 3 | Team | 2007 | Stuttgart, GER | 178.100 |
| 3 | Beam | 2005 | Melbourne, VIC, AUS | 9.500 |
| 4 | Team | 2011 | Tokyo, JPN | 172.412 |
| 7 | Beam | 2011 | Tokyo, JPN | 14.241 |
| Qualification | Floor Exercise | 2011 | Tokyo, JPN | 14.200 |
| Qualification | Individual All-Around | 2011 | Tokyo, JPN | 43.966 |
| World Cup | ||||
| 1 | Beam | 2012 | Ghent, BEL | 15.025 |
| 1 | Beam | 2012 | Doha, QAT | 15.300 |
| 1 | Floor Exercise | 2012 | Doha, QAT | 15.275 |
Nickname
Black Tulip. (libertatea.ro, 13 May 2012)
Occupation
Student
Language(s) spoken
English
Club name
CS Dinamo Bucuresti, Bucharest, ROU
Coach
Octavian Belu [head coach], Maria Bitang [choreographer] (ROU) (libertatea.ro, 13 May 2012)
Debut
2002 for Romania (fig-gymnastics.com, 03 Nov 2011)
Injuries
Injury kept her from participating in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, eliminating any possibility of her defending her three gold medals from the 2004 Games. (bangkokpost.com, 14 May 2012)
Her training was interrupted for two weeks in March 2007 when she was diagnosed with scarlet fever. (Backflip Gymnastics Magazine, 10 Apr 2007)
Additional information
Start of sporting career
She took up gymnastics at age four in her grandmother's storehouse. (adevarul.ro, 22 Nov 2011)
Hero
Former world and Olympic gymnast Simona Amanar from Romania. (FIG, 26 Oct 2005)
General
BIRTHDAY PRESENT
She won her first ever World Championship medal on the day of her 16th birthday in Anaheim, USA. (International Gymnast, 30 Dec 2003)
RETIREMENTS AND COMEBACKS
After winning the beam at the 2006 European Championships she retired due to knee problems, but in 2007 she returned to competition and helped Romania to a bronze medal at the 2007 World Championships in Stuttgart. In December of that year she retired again because of medical issues. After a four year break she returned to training in 2011 and made her comeback to competition at the national championship, where she finished with two gold and one silver medal. (universalsports.com, 06 Apr 2011)
Previous Olympics
Athens 2004
