Dan Potra
Name: Dan Nicolae Potra
Date of birth: Jul 28, 1978
Nick name:
Gender: Male
Height: 172.0 cm / 5.6 ft Weight
Marital status
Children
Place of birth: Timisoara
Hometown: Timisoara
Profession: sport teacher
Languages
Start discipline: 1985
First int. event: 1995
Nat. team since
Club: CS Dinamo Bucharest
Head coach: Ioan Boici
Assistant coach: Adrian Sandu
Choreographer
Best apparatus/cat. : Rings
Favourite tricks: beam Personal tricks
highest score
Music #1 Author #1
2004 Olympic Team bronze medallist !
Hobbies : Soccer, tennis and relaxing.
Why this sport? He was selected for gymnastics in kindergarten.
Most influential person in career : Horvath Poll, "he makes me trust myself." Hero / Idol : Alexei Nemov, "for his technicality and his expressiveness." Ambitions : To be a great gymnast and after that a good coach.
Cat. |
Rank-F |
Score-F |
Rank-Q |
Score-Q |
Year |
Place |
Description |
All Around
|
|
|
25
|
55.749
|
2004
|
ATHENS
|
Olympic
Games
|
Team
|
3
|
172.384
|
3
|
230.019
|
2004
|
ATHENS
|
Olympic
Games
|
Team
|
|
|
1
|
171.084
|
2004
|
LJUBLJANA
|
Continental
Chships/
Games
|
Team
|
5
|
167.909
|
4
|
224.770
|
2003
|
ANAHEIM
|
World
Chships
|
All Around
|
1
|
55.710
|
1
|
56.261
|
2002
|
PATRAS
|
Continental
Chships/
Games
|
Floor Exercise
|
8
|
8.637
|
|
|
2002
|
PATRAS
|
Continental
Chships/
Games
|
Rings
|
8
|
9.275
|
|
|
2002
|
PATRAS
|
Continental
Chships/
Games
|
Team
|
1
|
168.170
|
|
|
2002
|
PATRAS
|
Continental
Chships/
Games
|
All Around
|
4
|
55.899
|
14
|
53.998
|
2001
|
GHENT
|
World
Chships
|
Team
|
6
|
162.920
|
4
|
219.768
|
2001
|
GHENT
|
World
Chships
|
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