Career
She is an Olympic silver medalist and a world bronze medalist with the team She was also an uneven bars finalist at the 1992 Olympic Games. Mirela started to train for gymnastics at the age of 5 at the Baia-Mare Sport Club, under the direction of Adriana and Nelu People’s (who also coached Ludivine Furnon).
In 1990 she joined the national Romanian team
In the same year she tied for gold on the uneven bars with Svetlana Boginskaya and Natalia Kalinina at the European Championships in Athens, Greece. Mirela also tied for the fourth place on the uneven bars with Henrietta Ónodi in a final in which the bronze medal was not rewarded.
Mirela’s last competition was the 1992 DTB cup. After the retirement she graduated in Physical Education and Sports at the Bucharest Ecological University.
In 1997 she left for Spain to become the new gymnastics coach of the Real Grupo de Cultura Covadonga club, based in Gijon.
Mirela returned to Romania to open in 2006 her own fitness and aerobic club