Dominique Moceanu
Dominique Helena Moceanu (/moʊˈtʃiːɑːnuː/, moh-CHEE-anoo; Romanian: [moˈtʃe̯anu]; born September 30, 1981) is a retired American gymnast. She was a member of the gold-medal-winning United States women's gymnastics team (the "Magnificent Seven") at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
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| Full name | Dominique Helena Moceanu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | September 30, 1981 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hometown | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Level | Senior international elite | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years on national team | 1992–2000, 2004–2006 (USA) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | LaFleur's; Károlyi's; Moceanu Gymnastics; Cincinnati Gymnastics Academy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coach(es) | Béla and Márta Károlyi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Former coach(es) | Jeff LaFleur; Béla and Márta Károlyi; Luminița Miscenco; Mary Lee Tracy; Alexander Alexandrov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Choreographer | Geza Pozar, Dominic Zito | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Music | "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Retired | 2000; 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Moceanu trained under Marta and Béla Károlyi, and later Luminița Miscenco and Mary Lee Tracy. She earned her first national team berth at age 10 and represented the United States in various international competitions at the junior level. She was the all-around silver medalist at the 1992 Junior Pan American Games and the 1994 junior national champion. In 1995, at the age of 13, she became the youngest gymnast to win the senior all-around title at the U.S. National Championships. She was the youngest member of both the 1995 World Championships team and the gold-medal-winning 1996 Olympics team, and was the last gymnast to compete legally in the Olympics at the age of 14.
Moceanu's last major success in gymnastics was at the 1998 Goodwill Games, where she became the first American to win the all-around gold medal. Family problems, coaching changes, and injuries derailed her efforts to make the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and she retired from the sport in 2000. Since then, she has worked as a coach, studied business management, and written a memoir, Off Balance.