Cristina Balaban
 Balaban (right) at the 1966 European Championships | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||
| Club | CS Dinamo București[1] | ||||||||||
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Balaban (left) and Pătrășcoiu at the 1985 European Championships
Cristina Balaban is a retired Romanian swimmer who won a bronze medal in the 100 m backstroke at the 1966 European Aquatics Championships.[2] This was the first European swimming medal for Romania.[3] During her career she won 28 national titles and set 36 national records.[4]
After retirement she worked as a swimming coach, under the name Balaban-Sopterian, training such competitors as Carmen Bunaciu and Anca Pătrășcoiu.[3]
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- ^ Secţia de Nataţie CS Dinamo Bucureşti. csdinamo.eu
- ^ Cristina BALABAN. les-sports.info
- ^ a b C.Bunaciu: I still like to swim… Archived 2013-02-18 at archive.today. bgswim.info
- ^ ISTORICUL NATATIEI IN ROMANIA. swimming.ro
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