Marius_Urzică
Marius Urzică
Romanian gymnast
Marius Daniel Urzică (born 30 September 1975 in Toplița, Romania)[1] is a Romanian gymnast. Urzică is an Olympic champion, a three-time world champion and a three-time European champion on pommel horse. He competed at three Olympic Games, medaling each time on pommel horse (gold Sydney 2000, silver Atlanta 1996 and silver Athens 2004) and contributed to the team bronze in Athens 2004. His unique technique and style of performance have won him the recognition as one of the greatest masters on this piece of apparatus ever, together with Miroslav Cerar and Zoltán Magyar.[2] Known as "The King of the Pommels" in 2001 he achieved the maximum score of 10.00 on this piece of apparatus at the Glasgow Grand Prix.[2][3] Two elements in artistic gymnastics, one on pommel horse[4] and one on parallel bars[5] are named after him.
He was the founder of Romanian Golden Team.