Ioan Suciu

Career

His best event was the pommel horse. Suciu is an Olympic bronze medalist with the team, a silver world medalist on pommel horse and a six-time European medalist (pommel horse, vault and team). He also placed fourth all around at the 2004 Olympic Games.

Achievements

• One of his closest rivals was his team mate and pommel horse Olympic champion Marius Urzică, who was defeated by Suciu in Ljubljana, 2004, when the latter won the title while Urzică took 8th place.

Membership

Suciu was one of the key team members of the Romanian gymnastics team for several years contributing to the 2004 Olympic team bronze medal and three continental team medals (two gold and one silver).