1. Larisa Iordache represented Romania at the 2012 Olympic Games, winning a bronze medal with the team, and at the 2020 Olympic Games.
84 Facts About Larisa Iordache
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Larisa Iordache then won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the team competition.
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Larisa Iordache is the 2013 World bronze medalist on floor exercise, the 2014 World silver medalist in the all-around and on floor exercise, and the 2015 World bronze medalist in the all-around.
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Larisa Iordache was the 2013 European champion on beam, and the most successful gymnast at the 2014 European Championships, winning gold with her team and as an individual on floor exercise, silver on balance beam, and bronze on vault.
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Larisa Iordache won bronze on beam at the 2017 European Championships, held in her home country in Cluj-Napoca.
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Larisa Iordache is a twelve-time gold medalist in the World Cups and the 2017 Universiade champion in the all-around and on floor exercise.
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Larisa Iordache was born in Bucharest, Romania, where she still lives today.
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Larisa Iordache's mother, Adriana Iordache, was a handball player, and her father played football.
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Larisa Iordache has an older brother named Razvan who plays football.
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Larisa Iordache was introduced to gymnastics after being spotted rollerblading by her first coach, Mariana Campeanu-Silisteanu.
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Larisa Iordache began her gymnastics training at CSS Dinamo Club in Bucharest.
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Larisa Iordache became a member of the junior national team in 2008, and she was coached by Ramona Micu, Adela Popa, Lacramioara Moldovan, and Claudiu Moldovan.
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Larisa Iordache made her junior international debut at the 2009 Top Gym Trophy in Charleroi, Belgium.
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Larisa Iordache contributed an all-around score of 55.550 toward the Romanian team's second-place finish behind Russia.
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Larisa Iordache won the bronze medal in the all-around final behind Russians Viktoria Komova and Anastasia Grishina, with a score of 55.675.
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Larisa Iordache won the all around competition with a score of 58.400, nearly four points ahead of second-place teammate Diana Bulimar.
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Larisa Iordache won the all-around final with a score of 58.000.
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Larisa Iordache placed second on vault behind France's Elodie Perez scoring 14.350, first on uneven bars, scoring 14.250, first on balance beam scoring 14.900, and first on floor scoring 14.500.
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Larisa Iordache contributed an all-around score of 58.800 towards Alliance Dijon's first-place finish.
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Larisa Iordache won the all-around final with a score of 59.500, and she finished nearly two points ahead of two-time Olympian Anna Pavlova.
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Larisa Iordache won the all-around title with a score of 58.300, nearly five points ahead of British silver medalist Gabby Jupp.
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In July, Larisa Iordache competed at the 2011 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival in Trabzon, Turkey.
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Larisa Iordache contributed an all around score of 57.800 towards the Romanian team's second-place finish behind Italy.
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Larisa Iordache won the all-around final with a score of 57.550, over two points ahead of the second-place finisher Erika Fasana.
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Larisa Iordache became age eligible for senior international competition in 2012.
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Larisa Iordache placed third in the all-around behind Americans Jordyn Wieber and Aly Raisman with a score of 59.332.
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Larisa Iordache placed fourth in the uneven bars final with a score of 14.525.
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Larisa Iordache helped Romania win the team competition, and individually, she won the all-around with a score of 60.150.
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Larisa Iordache helped Romania win the team competition, and individually, she won the all-around with a score of 59.750.
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In May, Larisa Iordache competed at the 2012 European Championships in Brussels, Belgium.
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Larisa Iordache contributed an all-around score of 58.757 toward the Romanian team's first-place finish.
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Larisa Iordache did compete in all four events in the qualification round, and she helped Romania finish fourth.
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At the 2013 Doha World Cup, Larisa Iordache placed second in the vault final behind Phan Thi Ha Thanh with a score of 14.675, and seventh in the uneven bars final with a score of 13.325.
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Larisa Iordache won the silver medal behind Aliya Mustafina of Russia.
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In October, Larisa Iordache competed at the 2013 World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Larisa Iordache fell on the same skill in the balance beam final and scored 13.933 for seventh place.
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Larisa Iordache then competed at the Swiss Cup, which is a team competition where each country is represented by one female and one male gymnast.
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Larisa Iordache competed at the Elite Gym Massilia in Marseille, France where she won the gold medal in the all-around, the silver medal on vault behind Russia's Alla Sosnitskaya, and the gold medal on both balance beam and floor exercise.
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Larisa Iordache had the highest scores of the competition on every apparatus, and she won the all-around title by three points over teammate Diana Bulimar.
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At the 2014 European Championships, Larisa Iordache was the most decorated gymnast with four medals.
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Larisa Iordache was the only gymnast to qualify for all four apparatus finals.
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Larisa Iordache won the all-around competition with 59.650, beating second-place finisher Stefania Stanila by nearly four points.
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Larisa Iordache won the all-around competition, finishing nearly two points ahead of silver medalist Giulia Steingruber.
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In October, Larisa Iordache was named to the Romanian team for the 2014 World Championships in Nanning, China.
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Larisa Iordache then competed at the Swiss Cup with Marius Berbecar, and they placed seventh.
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Larisa Iordache then competed in the Stuttgart and Glasgow World Cups.
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Larisa Iordache received the highest score on every event except the uneven bars.
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In Glasgow, Larisa Iordache posted the highest score on every event to take home the all-around gold with 59.232.
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Larisa Iordache finished nearly three points ahead of silver medalist Ellie Black.
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Larisa Iordache was scheduled to compete at the World Cups in Doha and Cottbus, but she withdrew due to an ankle injury.
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Larisa Iordache later withdrew from the 2015 European Championships due to the same injury.
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Larisa Iordache had to skip the 2015 European Games due to school exams.
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At the Romanian National Championships, Larisa Iordache won gold with her club team and in the all-around with a score of 60.900.
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Larisa Iordache won gold on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.
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Larisa Iordache was selected to compete at the 2015 World Championships along with Diana Bulimar, Ana Maria Ocolisan, Laura Jurca, Silvia Zarzu, and Catalina Ponor.
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Larisa Iordache finished sixteenth all-around in the qualification round, but in the all-around final, she won the bronze medal, with a score of 59.107 behind Gabby Douglas and Simone Biles.
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Larisa Iordache won the gold medal in the all-around on the uneven bars, and the silver medal on the balance beam behind Ponor.
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Larisa Iordache hurt her knee on the dismount of her uneven bars routine, and after competing in the balance beam final, she withdrew from the floor exercise final.
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Larisa Iordache then competed at a friendly meet against France, and the Romanian team finished second.
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Larisa Iordache tied for the silver medal in the all-around with Louise Vanhille.
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Larisa Iordache then competed at a friendly meet in Chemnitz, Germany where she finished ninth in the all-around.
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Larisa Iordache was officially named the alternate for the Olympic Games.
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Larisa Iordache opened her season by competing at the Sainte Gym Cup in Saint-Etienne, France.
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Larisa Iordache only competed on the uneven bars, where she won the gold medal, and the balance beam, where she won the silver medal.
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Larisa Iordache was selected for the European Championships in Cluj-Napoca along with first-year seniors Olivia Cimpian and Ioana Crisan, and London Olympic teammate Catalina Ponor.
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Larisa Iordache was not yet ready to compete in the all-around, competing only on uneven bars and balance beam, and she qualified first into balance beam finals.
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Larisa Iordache decided to perform only on the balance beam and uneven bars.
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Larisa Iordache won gold in both finals, with a score of 13.800 on the uneven bars and a 14.150 on the balance beam.
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Larisa Iordache was then selected to represent Romania at the 2017 Summer Universiade.
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Larisa Iordache competed in the all-around for the first time of the year, and she qualified for the all-around final in second place behind Ellie Black.
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Larisa Iordache won the gold medal on uneven bars, balance beam, and floor exercise.
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Larisa Iordache then competed at the Paris World Cup where she placed fourth on the uneven bars, won the gold on the balance beam, and won the silver on the floor exercise behind Claudia Fragapane.
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In October, Larisa Iordache traveled to Montreal for the 2017 World Championships but suffered an Achilles tendon tear during the warm-ups for the qualification round.
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Larisa Iordache then flew back to Romania and had surgery.
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Larisa Iordache had a second surgery on her Achilles tendon a month and a half later.
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In September 2018, Larisa Iordache went to Dr Weinstable in Vienna, Austria, with the help of former Romanian head coaches, Mariana Bitang and Octavian Bellu, to have her third surgery on her Achilles tendon.
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Larisa Iordache was told that she was able to begin training at full capacity, and Iordache officially announced her comeback to elite gymnastics.
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In late October 2020, Larisa Iordache reported on Twitter that she had tested positive for COVID-19, forcing her to forego a verification meet that would have been her first competition in three years.
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Larisa Iordache had the fourth-highest all-around score with a 52.234, just over half a point behind all-around bronze medalist Ioana Stanciulescu.
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Larisa Iordache still competed in the uneven bars and balance beam finals, and had she been eligible, she would have won gold on uneven bars and silver on balance beam.
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Larisa Iordache won the silver medal on vault behind Hungary's Zsofia Kovacs, and she placed fourth on uneven bars.
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Larisa Iordache later withdrew from the all-around and event finals due to a kidney infection that required hospitalization.
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Larisa Iordache had to take two weeks off of training once she was released from the hospital.
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Larisa Iordache was originally going to compete at the FIT Challenge in Ghent; however, she withdrew from the competition after her mother died from a long-term illness.