1. Melita Ruhn is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1980 Summer Olympics.
10 Facts About Melita Ruhn
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Melita Ruhn won three Olympic medals for Romania and scored a perfect ten for the vault optionals in the team competition of the 1980 Olympic Games.
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Melita Ruhn is an all around and floor world bronze medalist.
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Together with Nadia Comaneci, Rodica Dunca, Emilia Eberle, Dumitrita Turner and Marilena Vladarau, Melita Ruhn was a member of the gold-winning team at the 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.
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Melita Ruhn did all the four events and contributed with a difficult and risky routine on the uneven bars.
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Melita Ruhn revealed for a newspaper that just before the Moscow Olympics she fractured her ankle.
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Melita Ruhn scored a 10 and the cast was placed back on her ankle.
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Melita Ruhn retired from competitive gymnastics in 1982, when she was 17.
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Melita Ruhn finished high school in her native Sibiu and left for Bucharest in 1984.
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Melita Ruhn went to the sports university there, while competing for her home club of CSS Sibiu for a short period.