Aurelia Dobre

Aurelia Dobre
— Gymnast —
Dobre at the 1987 World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Aurelia Dobre
Country represented	Romania
Born	(1972-11-16) 16 November 1972 Bucharest, Romania
Height	1.46 m (4 ft 9 in)
Weight	42 kg (93 lb)
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Level	Senior International
Gym	Deva National Training Center
Head coach(es)	Adrian Goreac
Retired	1989
Medal record Olympic Games 1988 Seoul Team World Championships 1987 Rotterdam Team 1987 Rotterdam All-around 1987 Rotterdam Balance beam 1989 Stuttgart Team 1987 Rotterdam Vault 1987 Rotterdam Floor exercise

Aurelia Dobre (born 16 November 1972) is a former artistic gymnast from Romania and the 1987 world all-around champion. She is the 1987 world champion on the balance beam and the bronze medalist on the vault and floor exercise, as well, and scored five perfect 10s at these championships.

Dobre was also a member of the silver-medal-winning Romanian teams at the 1988 Summer Olympics^[1] and the 1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. However, her career was cut short because of two major injuries and a growth spurt.

For years, Dobre was thought to be the youngest world all-around champion ever, having won her title at the age of 14 years and 352 days, until it was found that Olga Bicherova's age had been falsified at the 1981 World Championships,^[2] and that Bicherova had been 13 when she won her title.

Post-retirement

After retiring from gymnastics, Dobre caused controversy by posing nude for the September 1991 issue of Playboy Netherlands and giving an interview to the magazine that was highly critical of the Romanian gymnastics program during the communist era.^[3]

She received an award at the Romanian Gymnastics Federation's 100-year anniversary celebration^[4] and was formally recognised as one of the Romanian gymnasts to have scored a perfect 10.^[5] In May 2016, she was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.^[6]

In 1991 Dobre moved to the United States and in 1992 married Boz Mofid. They have four sons: Cyrus, Darius, and twins Lucas and Marcus. Dobre is a choreographer and dance coach at her husband's gym in Maryland.^[6][7]

References

External links

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• Aurelia Dobre at the International Federation of Gymnastics
• List of competitive results at Gymn Forum

World Champions in Artistic Gymnastics – Women's Team Competition
1934:  Czechoslovakia 1938:  Czechoslovakia 1950:  Sweden 1954:  Soviet Union 1958:  Soviet Union 1962:  Soviet Union 1966:  Czechoslovakia 1970:  Soviet Union 1974:  Soviet Union 1978:  Soviet Union 1979:  Romania 1981:  Soviet Union 1983:  Soviet Union 1985:  Soviet Union 1987:  Romania 1989:  Soviet Union 1991:  Soviet Union 1994:  Romania 1995:  Romania 1997:  Romania 1999:  Romania 2001:  Romania 2003:  United States 2006:  China 2007:  United States 2010:  Russia 2011:  United States 2014:  United States 2015:  United States
1987:  Romania (ROM), Aurelia Dobre, Eugenia Golea, Celestina Popa, Daniela Silivaș, Ecaterina Szabo, Camelia Voinea