Career
At age nineteen, Ciobanu made her official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed for the women"s platform event. She placed twenty-fourth out of thirty-four divers in the preliminary round, with a total score of 268.23. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ciobanu competed for the second time in the women"s platform, where she scored 279.10 points in the preliminary competition, finishing again in twenty-fourth place.