Mirela Barbălată (b. October 23, 1967) is a retired Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

n artistic gymnast. In 1983 she won the silver medal with the team at the 1983 World Championships

1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 22nd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Budapest, the capital of Hungary, in 1983.-Medals:-All-around:- Floor exercise :-Pommel horse:-Rings:-Vault:-Parallel bars:-Horizontal bar:-Team final:-All-around:...

. At the same competition she scored a perfect ten on vault and she had the highest qualifying score for the vault final. However, she did not compete in the vault finals. The Romanian

Sport in Romania

The most popular sport in Romania is football. Other popular sports include team handball, basketball, rugby union, tennis and gymnastics.-Football:...

 vault finalists were Lavinia Agache

Lavinia Agache

Lavinia Agache is a retired Romanian gymnast. She had a successful senior career winning a number of ten medals at major international events. She medaled team gold at the 1984 Olympics and team silver at the 1983 Worlds...

 and Ecaterina Szabo

Ecaterina Szabo

Ecaterina Szabo is an ethnic Hungarian former artistic gymnast from Romania who won 20 Olympic, world and continental medals...

 who won the silver and the bronze medal, respectively. After retirement from artistic gymnastics Mirela emigrated in Germany where she married the German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

marathoner Christian Hübner. Together with her husband she is competing in marathon competitions.

External links

• Bio and List of competitive results