| Celebrated Name: | Nadia Comaneci |
| Real Name/Full Name: | Nadia Elena Comaneci |
| Gender: | Female |
| Age: | 60 years old |
| Birth Date: | 12 November 1961 |
| Birth Place: | Onesti, Romania, |
| Nationality: | Romanian |
| Height: | 1.63m |
| Weight: | 57kg |
| Sexual Orientation: | Straight |
| Marital Status: | Married |
| Husband/Spouse (Name): | Bart Conner (m.1996 – present) |
| Children/Kids (Son and Daughter): | Yes 1 (Dylan Paul) |
| Dating/Boyfriend (Name): | N/A |
| Is Nadia Comaneci Lesbian? | No |
| Profession: | Professional gymnast |
| Salary: | N/A |
| Net Worth in 2024: | $12 million |
| Last Updated: | January 2024 |
Nadia is a retired gymnast who is also known as five-times Olympic gold medallist in all individual events. She was the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of the 10.0 at the Olympic Games at the age of 14 years, where she also received six more perfect to winning three gold medals in the same game. She won two more gold’s at the Summer Olympics in Moscow, managing to attain two more perfect 10s. In total, she won nine Olympic medals and four World Artistic Gymnastics Championship medals.
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Early Life & Biography
Nadia was born in Onesti, in Bacau County, Romania. She is the daughter of George and Stephanie Comaneci. Together with her younger brother Adriana, they were raised in the Romanian Orthodox Church after their parents separated, and her father moved to Bucharest. Her mother enrolled her in gym class since Nadia was full of energy and activity that she couldn’t manage her. She graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest after a couple of top athletic competition which gave her an opportunity and qualify to coach gymnastics.
Personal Life
She married American gymnast Bart Conner in 1996, owner of the Conner Academy of Gymnastics, a company that produced the perfect ten and some sports equipment stores and moved to Norman, Oklahoma. And they have a child together called Dylan Paul. They both published the International Gymnastics Magazines called International Gymnast Magazine. Currently, they reside in the USA living a happy life
Age, Height, and Weight
Being born on 12 November 1961, Nadia Comaneci is 60 years old as of today’s date 10th January 2024. Her height is 1.63 m tall, and her weight is 57 kg.
Career
Comaneci was debuted at the age of 6 when Coach Bela Karolyi discovered her. She won the Romanian National Junior Championship and the European Championship and American cup as a senior. At the age of 14, she amazed the world after becoming the first woman to score perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics event and won three gold medals and seven perfect medals for the uneven bars, balance beam and individual all-round and bronze medal for her floor exercises.
She won silver during the Romanian national team for her second place in the game. During the Olympic Games in Moscow, Russia, Nadia won two gold for the floor exercise and balance beam and two silver medals for the team competition and individual all-around.
She retired in 1984 and worked as a coach for the Romanian team and later defected to the U.S via Hungary in 1989. She received a world sports Award of the century after being elected “Athlete of the century” during a gala in Vienna, Austria. Nadia became a national icon whose face ended even on postage stamps.
Nadia is identified to be the first gymnast to successfully perform an aerial walkover and an aerial cartwheel back handspring flight series. She is credited to be the first gymnast to perform a double twist dismount, and her floor exercise skills including a tucked double back salto and a double twist.
Apart from her career, in 2004, a memoir was released as part of the Art of Mentoring series by Basic Books tilted Letters to a Young Gymnast Comaneci, entitled Eternal Princess that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival a documentary for ESPN that was directed by Katie Holmes. Another pola Rappaport documentary about Comaneci that was titled Nadia Comaneci, la gymnast et le Dictareur, which meant Nadia Comaneci: The Gymnast and the Dictator and also she was subjected in an unauthorized biopic television film, Nadia where it was aired without her knowledge.
Awards & Achievements
Over the years, she has managed to be recognized in several categories including The United Press International Athlete of the Year Award, Hero of social labor, Associated Press Athlete of the year, BBC Overseas Sports Personality of The Year, The Olympic Order, International Women’s Sports Hall of Fame, International Gymnastics Hall of Fame, Marca Leyenda, Flo Hyman Award, The Olympic Order and Great Immigrant Honoree: Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Net Worth & Salary of Nadia Comaneci in 2024
As of January 2024, Nadia has an estimated net worth of $12 million. Most of her money comes from her sports engagement, as well as her private gymnastic school. She has appeared in a series of provocative underwear advertisements which contribute to her wealth. She currently does television commentary writes for gymnastic publications and travels the world promoting the spots. She has been featured in several documentaries that have majored in her successful career life than has no bounds.
Nadia is known to be active in helping young people to make their dreams come true with her example of how she managed to. She is considered as an icon, and at one time, her face was on postage stamps, and that meant that she had made a place for herself as a true icon.