team at the Games since 1968. Drawing on the success of Romania successfully hosting the European Gymnastics Championships April 18–23, 2017, Romania was expected to contend for the all-around and individual titles at the 2017 World Gymnastics Championships in Montreal, Canada. Unfortunately, their arguably best all-around gymnast Larisa Iordache suffered a torn Achilles tendon during warm-up for qualifying. Romania's other hope for a medal, Cătălina Ponor, multiple medal winner in her gymnastics career, failed to qualify in either of the events she competed – beam or floor. She stepped down from her position upon the failure of either the women's or men's teams qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Competitive skills Vault: Round-off 1/2 twist on, front layout off. Balance beam: full twisting back salto, double pike back dismount, tucked Korbut Floor exercise: Double laid-out salto, Whip salto (immediate connection) Back-double pike salto, 2.5 twisting back layout (immediate connection) punch-layout-front, Triple-twisting back layout. Floor music 1998–2000: "Las Carretas del Rocio" by the Orquestra Española de Juan Alfonso 2000: "Reel Around The Sun" from the album Riverdance by Bill Whelan 2001: "Éclipse" from the album Nouvelle Expérience by René Dupere 2002: "Meet Her At The Love Parade" by Da Hool and "Right in the Night" by Jam & Spoon featuring Plavka Competitive history See also Doping at the Olympic Games List of doping cases in sport List of Olympic female artistic gymnasts for Romania List of top female medalists at major artistic gymnastics events References Further reading External links 1983 births Living people Romanian female artistic gymnasts Doping cases in gymnastics Gymnasts at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gymnasts of Romania Olympic gold medalists for Romania Olympic silver medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals Romanian sportspeople in doping cases World champion gymnasts Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Romanian television personalities Sportspeople from Bârlad