Florentina Iusco, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Florentina Iusco

Romanian long jumper

Date of Birth: 08-Apr-1996

Place of Birth: Deva, Hunedoara County, Romania

Profession: athletics competitor

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Florentina Iusco

  • Florentina Costina Iusco, born Marincu (born 8 April 1996) is a Romanian track and field athlete who competes in the long jump. Iusco grew up in Deva, Romania, a city famous for gymnastics.
  • She was interested in sports and as her physique was not suited to gymnastics she focused on athletics instead.
  • Her international debut came at the senior level when she was aged sixteen.
  • At the 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships she came 17th, failing to go beyond six metres.
  • She came to prominence internationally with a gold medal double in the long jump and triple jump at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics – becoming only the second athlete to achieve that feat, after her compatriot Cristine Spataru.
  • She ended that year with personal bests of 6.54 m (21 ft 5 1/4 in) for the long jump and 13.81 m (45 ft 3 1/2 in) for the triple jump.In her 2014 season, she set a series of personal bests, including 6.71 m (22 ft 0 in) for the long jump, 11.85 seconds for the 100 metres and 7.40 seconds for the 60 metres.
  • Iusco won her first senior medal at the age of eighteen at the 2015 European Athletics Indoor Championships – after a jump of 6.57 m (21 ft 6 1/2 in) in the qualifying round, she had a personal best and European junior record of 6.79 m (22 ft 3 1/4 in) in the final, which brought her the bronze medal behind Ivana Å panovic and Sosthene Taroum Moguenara.

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