Cătălina Ponor

Cătălina Ponor
Ponor in 2016
Personal information
Full nameCătălina Ponor
Nickname(s)Cătă, Black Tulip
Born (1987-08-20) 20 August 1987
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Gymnastics career
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Country
represented
Romania
(2002–2007, 2011–2012, 2015–2017)
ClubCS Dinamo București
Head coach(es)Octavian Bellu
Assistant coach(es)Sandu Lucian
Former coach(es)Matei Stanei, Gabriela Dosoftei
ChoreographerAdriana Pop
Retired30 April 2006
12 December 2007
8 August 2012
25 November 2017
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 1 1
World Championships 0 3 2
European Championships 8 2 3
World Cup Final 1 1 0
FIG World Cup 7 2 0
Total 19 9 6
Representing  Romania
Olympic Games
2004 Athens Team
2004 Athens Balance Beam
2004 Athens Floor Exercise
2012 London Floor Exercise
2012 London Team
World Championships
2003 Anaheim Team
2003 Anaheim Balance Beam
2003 Anaheim Floor Exercise
2005 Melbourne Balance Beam
2007 Stuttgart Team
World Cup Final
2004 Birmingham Balance Beam
2004 Birmingham Floor Exercise
European Championships
2004 Amsterdam Team
2004 Amsterdam Balance Beam
2004 Amsterdam Floor Exercise
2005 Debrecen Balance Beam
2006 Volos Balance Beam
2012 Brussels Team
2012 Brussels Balance Beam
2017 Cluj-Napoca Balance Beam
2006 Volos Team
2012 Brussels Floor Exercise
2006 Volos Floor Exercise
2016 Bern Balance Beam
2016 Bern Floor Exercise

Cătălina Ponor (Romanian pronunciation: [kətəˈlina poˈnor]; born 20 August 1987) is a Romanian former artistic gymnast who competed at three Summer Olympic Games: 2004, 2012, and 2016. She won three gold medals at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens on balance beam, floor and as part of the Romanian team. She also earned a silver medal on floor and bronze medal as part of the Romanian team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, as well as multiple World Championship and European Championship medals. She announced her plans to retire from gymnastics after the 2017 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, in Montreal. During her career, she won 23 Olympic, World and European medals. More than half of them (12) were gold medals. She was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 2022 but attended the ceremony in 2025 due to travel complications.