Results:
1992 Europeans, Nantes, France: 18th AA
1992 Hungarian Int'l , Budapest, Hungary: 4th AA
1992 Balkan Championships, Athens, Greece: 1st Team, 7th AA
Following her success, Camelia wanted to stay at Ploiesti
and train with her mother, a decision which wasn't exactly
popular with the National team coaches. They decided to take
both Gabriela Agachi and Camelia Mandricel to the European
Championships and decide who will compete when they get to
Lausanne (they had already decided the other two team members
would be Gina Gogean and Vanda Hadarean) .
Once they got there, the coaches waited until the deadline
-the day before the competition- to name Camelia as the third
member of the team. By that point, both Camelia and Gabriela
had been under so much pressure, it was pointless to let any
of them compete. Camelia finished a disappointing 18th in
the AA.
Camelia was very vocal in her criticism of the selection procedure
used by the coaches, and in an interview on Romanian television,
she said she repeatedly pleaded with the coaches to let Gabriela
compete, instead of playing a waiting game, but they refused.
Camelia never went back to Deva, partly because she didn't
think she would be allowed to keep her spot on the National
team. She went back to Ploiesti, where she kept busy between
ballet performances, school, and coaching at her home club.
Corina Ungureanu and Nicoleta Onel are just two of the gymnasts
she coached during her stay at Ploiesti, and both of them
have the beautiful form and body line that became/was Camelia's
trademark.
Camelia pursued her studies at the University in Ploiesti,
eventually accepting a coaching position in the kingdom of
Jordan in the middle east. There, she coaches the junior National
team. Her gymnasts have had very good results, e.g., winning
gold, silver, and bronzes at the 1999 International meet in
Tunisia.
Camelia recently traveled to Montreal to coach her gymnast
Yasmin Kheir (JOR) to a 6th place all around standing at the
2002 Gymnix International.
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