Mălina Călugăreanu (born 15 September 1996,ălinaCălugă Bucharest) is a Romanian foil fencer.

Career

Călugăreanu took up fencing at the age of twelve under the guiding of Petre Ducu and Florin Gheorghe, who remain her coaches as of 2016. She won her first junior World Cup tournament in 2014 in Timișoara, ending the 2014–15 season with a No. 1 position in World junior rankings.

Mălina Călugăreanu

She took part in her first senior competitions during the 2011–12 season and she joined the senior Romanian national team for the 2013 European Championships in Zagreb. In 2014, she won the silver medal at the Romanian championships, after losing in the final to Steaua teammate Maria Boldor. They went on to win the team gold medal together. The same happened in 2015.

Mălina Călugăreanu

In the 2015–16 season she earned a silver medal at the World Cup satellite tournament in Ankara. In April she qualified to the Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics through a top-four finish at the Prague pre-olympic tournament.

Mălina Călugăreanu

She competed at the 2022 World Fencing Championships held in Cairo, Egypt.

References

External links

Profile at the European Fencing Confederation

1996 births

Fencers from Bucharest

Living people

Romanian female fencers

Romanian foil fencers

Fencers at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Olympic fencers for Romania

21st-century Romanian women

Fencers at the 2023 European Games

European Games bronze medalists for Romania

European Games medalists in fencing