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DANIELA
SILIVAS
Nick name: Guvidu'
Date of birth: 09-May-1970
Gender Female
Height Weight
Marital status:Married
Children
Place of birth:
Hometown:Atlanta, USA
Profession: Coach
Languages
Start discipline:
First int. event
Nat. team since
Club:
Head coach:
Assistant coach
Choreographer
Best apparatus/cat.
Favourite tricks: beam
Personal tricks
highest score
Music #1 Author
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General Interest
Dana started gymnastics at he Gymnastics School in Deva, being
coached by Ioan Carpinisan. She was an amazing talent, learning
with much ease original difficults elements at a very small
age.
She was a complete gymnast, who won many medals at all events,
beginning with a bronze medal on beam at 1985 World Championships
in Montreal.
She had a brillant career, sharing success and work with Aurelia
Dobre, her teammate.
Daniela Silivas scored 5 perfect 10's in the '87 World
Championships.
Daniela won the bars, beam and floor in the '88 Olympics with
a silver in the All-Around and a bronze on the vault
Daniela Silivas has a skill on the floor and a skill
on the beam named after her She retired in 1990 because of an
injured knee and the brief closing of Deva due to the Romanian
Revolution. Daniela now resides in Atlanta Georgia
Although the 1990 World Cup in Brussels, Belgium was on her
mind, training time lost due to the Revolution and knee surgery
forced Silivas into retirement. She spent a year at the University
of Bucharest before accepting an invitation from family friends
to move to the United States. She arrived in NYC on August 26,
1991.
These friends, Justin and Zenovaia Ivanchiu, former Romanian
sports acro gymnasts, owned a club in Atlanta, Georgia. Silivas
helped the Ivanchius with their coaching.
Soon after, to the delight of long time fans, she also competed
in the 1991 World Professional Championships. At the time, Silivas
actually hoped to compete for the Georgia Gym Dawgs. The University
of Georgia offered her a scholarship, but it was contingency
on English proficiency, a skill that she had not yet mastered.
In 1992 the Ivanchius opened a gym (the Universal Gymnastics
Training Center) in a suburb of Atlanta and Silivas began coaching
at this gym. She also began working with the Olympic committee
on preparations for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games.
Silivas now works as the chief manager at Hammond Park Gymnastics
in Atlanta, GA, and as team coach at Modern Gymnastics in Marietta,
GA. In 2002, she was inducted into the International Gymnastics
Hall of Fame.
Silivas and her husband Scott Harper, a graduate in sports management
(2001), married May 24, 2003. "It wasn't love at first sight,
we were friends first," Silivas told Romanian newspaper Monitorul
de Sibiu. "After a couple of months we realized that we were
meant for each other." Daniela and Scott have two childdren,
first one is their son Jaden Scott, born April 8th 2004.
[Feb 2] Coach's
golden touch: Young gymnasts learn from Olympic champ
Standing alongside young gymnasts half her size is Daniela
Silivas, the sprite from Romania who battled the Russian
gymnastics machine in the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and came
away with six medals, three of them gold. In doing so, she tied
Nadia Comaneci
for the most perfect scores (seven). Silivas,
now 33, could be earning more money at a big-name gym teaching
elite gymnasts, but she prefers to coach regular little girls
and spend time with her family.
"To coach at a high level, to be competitive, the girls have
to be in gym 35 hours a week," she said. "I've done that. It's
over. I have a life outside gymnastics. And sometimes you have
to be tough with the girls. I'm more like, 'Coach, my leg hurts.'
'OK, sit down and rest.' You can't do that at a high-level gym."
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Rank-F |
Score-F |
Rank-Q |
Score-Q |
Year |
Place |
Description |
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Balance Beam
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1
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9.950
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1989
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STUTTGART
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World Chships
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Floor Exercise
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1
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10.000
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1989
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STUTTGART
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World Chships
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Uneven Bar
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1
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10.000
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1989
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STUTTGART
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World Chships
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All Around
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2
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79.637
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1988
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SEOUL
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Olympic Games
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Balance Beam
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1
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19.924
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1988
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SEOUL
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Olympic Games
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Floor Exercise
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1
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19.937
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1988
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SEOUL
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Olympic Games
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Uneven Bar
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1
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20.000
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1988
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SEOUL
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Olympic Games
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Vault
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3
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19.818
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1988
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SEOUL
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Olympic Games
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All Around
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3
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79.200
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1987
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ROTTERDAM
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World Chships
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Floor Exercise
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1
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20.000
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1987
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ROTTERDAM
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World Chships
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Uneven Bar
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1
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19.925
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1987
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ROTTERDAM
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World Chships
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All Around
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2
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39.700
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1986
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BEIJING
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World Cup/
Series Final
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Balance Beam
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2
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19.825
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1986
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BEIJING
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World Cup/
Series Final
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Uneven Bar
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3
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19.850
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1986
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BEIJING
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World Cup/
Series Final
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Balance Beam
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1
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19.813
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1985
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MONTREAL
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World Chships
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