AURELIA DOBRE

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Date of birth 16-Nov-1972
Gender Female
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Place of birth
Hometown (USA)
Profession Coach
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First int. event
Nat. team since
Club: Dinamo
Head coach: Emilia Lita and Florea Stefanescu.
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Choreographer
Best apparatus/cat.
Favourite tricks             Personal tricks TRA
highest score
Music #1                                Author #1
Aurelia moved to America in 1991and in 1992 she married Boz Mofid; they have 4 sons, Cyrus, Darius and twins Lucas and Marcus.
Aurelia Dobre is a choreographer and dance coach at her husbands gym in Maryland.

General Interest

Aurelia was the greatest talent of the Dinamo Club Bucuresti and at the 1987 Rotterdam World Championships, many specialists considered that she was the second Nadia Comaneci!

Aurelia Dobre is the Youngest Female World Gymnastics Champion, (October 23, 1987 Rotterdam, Netherlands - 14 years 352 days) -according to the Guiness Book of Records.
To win the women's all-round title, Dobre competed in four separate gymnastics disciplines - beam, vault, floor, and uneven bars - with each being marked individually. To win the title, Dobre had the highest combined score at the end of each event.

Her coaches were Emilia Lita and Florea Stefanescu. She had an exquisite technique and easiness in doing everything she tried. She really enjoyed doing gymnastics and unfortunately, her career was quite short because of two major injuries. Aurelia was the star of the Rotterdam World Championships and helped the team in the Seoul Olympic Games.

In 1990, Dobre became a controversial figure when she spoke out against the Romanian gymnastics system. Then, in 1991, she shocked many when she posed nude in an eight-page spread for the September issue of Dutch Playboy. She was reportedly paid $50,000.

In 1991, Dobre and teammate Silivas competed in the World Professional Championships held in the USA. Yes, there HAS been a World Professional Championships without any members of the MAG 7.

Soon after the 1991 World Professional Championships, Dobre met Fit 'n Fun gym owner Boz Mofid. On November 7th, 1992 Dobre and Mofid were married. Attending the wedding were former Romanian gymnasts Lavinia Agache and Daniela Silivas. Dobre now helps out at the gym, choreographing and teaching dance. She and Mofid have four sons, the first two are named Cyrus and Darius and the last two - twins - are named Marcus and Lucas. This twins were born in late February.

1983 Jr. ROM vs GDR: 1st All-Around, 1st Team
1984 Moscow News, Moscow, Russia: 4th All-Around
1984 Jr. Europeans,Rimini, Italy: 15th All-Around
1984 Riga International, Riga, Russia: 4th All-Around
1984 Druzhba Meet, Trnava, Czechoslovakia: 2nd Team, 17th AA
1985 International of Avignon, Avignon, France: 2nd AA
1985 International Jr. Meet, Yokohama, Japan: 1st BB, 2nd UB, 3rd AA, 3rd VT
1985 Jr. Balkan Championships, Athens, Greece: 1st AA, 1st Team
1985 Jr. Friendship Tournament: 10th AA
1986 Avignon International: 1st AA
1986 ROM vs CZE: 1st Team, 2nd All-Around
1986 FRA vs ROM: 1st Team, 1st All-Around
1986 European Junior Championships, Karlsruhe, Germany: 1st Vault, 1st Uneven Bars, 3rd All-Around
1987 ROM vs SUI: 1st Team, 1st All-Around
1987 Grand Prix of Rome, Rome, Italy: 1st All-Around
1987 World Championships, Rotterdam, Netherlands: 1st Team, 1st All-Around,1st Beam, 3rd Vault, 3rd Floor
1987 Chunichi Cup, Nagoya, Japan: 4th All-Around
1988 Olympic Games, Seoul, Korea: 2nd Team, 6th All-Around, 7th Uneven Bars
1988 DTB Cup: 6th AA
1988 Chunichi Cup, Nagoya, Japan: 4th Vt, 4th UB, 6th AA, 8th FX
1988 Tokyo Cup: 2nd VT, 2nd BB
1989 Rome Grand Prix, Rome, Italy: 3rd AA
1989 World Championships: 2nd Team
1991 World Professional Championships, Fairfax, VA, USA: 7th FX

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