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Maricica Puică

1950 - Today

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Maricica Puică (née Luca on 29 July 1950) is a retired Romanian middle-distance runner. She is the 1984 Olympic champion in the 3,000 metres. One of the greatest female middle-distance runners of the 1980s, she also twice won the World Cross Country Championship (1982, 1984) and broke the world record for the mile in 1982. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maricica Puică is the 642nd most popular athlete (up from 651st in 2019), the 324th most popular biography from Romania (up from 366th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Romanian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Maricica Puică ranks 642 out of 6,025. Before her are Lidiya Alfeyeva, Milkha Singh, Jean Cau, Maurice Hemelsoet, Sueo Ōe, and Glenn Hardin. After her are Mykola Avilov, William Jordan, Richard Thompson, Jean Bouin, Carl Goßler, and André Gaudin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Maricica Puică ranks 346. Before her are Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Tatjana Ždanoka, Kristina Wayborn, Michael Tomasello, Susana Higuchi, and Karim Khalili. After her are Thom Barry, Debbie Allen, Christian Zacharias, Ulf Ekman, Liz Chase, and Shabana Azmi.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Maricica Puică ranks 324 out of 844. Before her are Ioan Slavici (1848), Corneliu Baba (1906), Gheorghe Albu (1909), Béla Károlyi (1942), Margit Kaffka (1880), and Silviu Bindea (1912). After her are Dimitrie Brătianu (1818), Cristian Mungiu (1968), Rodion Cămătaru (1958), Virginia Ruzici (1955), Gabriel Popescu (1973), and Mircea Geoană (1958).

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Among ATHLETES In Romania

Among athletes born in Romania, Maricica Puică ranks 7. Before her are Iolanda Balaș (1936), Mihaela Peneș (1947), Ecaterina Oancia (1954), Ivan Patzaichin (1949), István Somodi (1885), and Gheorghe Berceanu (1949). After her are Dumitru Pârvulescu (1933), Argentina Menis (1948), Doina Melinte (1956), Lajos Steiner (1903), Ion Panțuru (1934), and Valeriu Bularca (1931).

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