Name: Catalina Ponor          

Nickname:Cata

Date of Birth:20-Aug-1987    
Place of Birth:Constanta     
Hometown:Constanta (ROM)

Gender:Female   
Height:155.ocm/ 5.1ft    
Weight:46.0kg/ 101.4lb.

Marital Status:single   Children:none    Profession:student

Start discipline:1991   
First Int.Event:2002  Nat.team since:       Club:Farul Constanta

Head coach: Octavian Belu  
Assistant coach:Sandu Lucian   
Choreographer:Maria Bitang

Best apparatus/cat. Beam   
Music #1 : Bronx Machine

2007:
 [Feb 5] Catalina Ponor and Loredana Boboc visited World Class Gymnastics
  We had Catalina Ponor and Loredana Boboc come at Cristina Bontas's World Class Gymnastics (Hamilton, Canada) for a show, pictures and sign autographs.
  CH news from Hamilton came, the romanian press and also the Hamilton Spectator newspaper. The girls also had a visit from the Canadian Federation people.
  We took tons of pictures and videotapped the whole show. It seemed like the girls enjoyed themselves. After the show, Cristina Bontas, her husband Gabi, and I (Andreea Luca) took them to see Niagara Falls and we also went for dinner.We had sooo much fun, and the girls are so funny and open minded about everything


[Dec 25] Gymnastics Stars will now have "their own" Stars

Catalina Ponor Star:
Registration Certificate and Star Map





From the official FIG profile:
Catalina Ponor was THE star of the Olympic Games in Athens. She was the only gymnast there to win three Olympic titles - on Floor, Beam and Team.
Hardly known until the end of 2003, she stormed onto the international stage to win the 2004 European titles on Floor and Beam in Amsterdam and then repeated her success in Athens.

She is planning to improve her A. Bars routine, so that she can challenge for the world title. Steady, stylish and a very feminine gymnast - Catalina has all that the audience could wish for in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics.
2004 Glasgow Grand Prix & World Cup - Gold on Floor and Beam. Ghent World Cup- Gold on Floor and Beam.

Romania's Catalina Ponor cries with her team after Romania won the gold during the women's gymnastics team final at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)-left.


Romania's Catalina Ponor cries after Romania won the gold during the women's gymnastics team final at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2004. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)-right

Skills: VT: Yurchenko 1 1/2 = 9.7 SV [2004 Romanian Nationals]

UB: jump to handstand, toe shoot (D + C = .2); kip, cast to handstand, giant 1/2 to L, Jaeger (D = .1); kip, cast to handstand, giant 1/2 to L, Ling, Bi, straddle back to handstand (D + E + C = .6), stoop on to high bar; kip, cast to handstand, giant, double pike = 9.7 SV [2004 Romanian International]

BB: Onodi, flip flop stepout, 1-arm flip flop, layout stepout (D + B + C + C = .4); switch leap, Kochetkova (C + D = .2); front aerial, flip flop stepout, back pike (D + B + C = .3); full turn; tuck jump 1/1 (D = .1); Omelianchik (D = .1); roundoff, double pike (D = .1) = 10.0 SV [2004 Romanian Nationals]

FX: triple turn, Popa (D + C = .2); roundoff, flip flop, piked full-in (E = .2); roundoff, flip flop, 2 1/2 twist, front layout (D + B = .2); cat leap 2/1, cat leap 3/2 (D + C = .2); roundoff, flip flop, triple twist (E = .2); tuck jump 2/1 (D = .1); roundoff, flip flop, double pike (D = .1) = 10.0 SV [2004 Romanian Nationals]
 

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