(1965-04-19) 19 April 1965 (age 59) Sibiu, Romania
Height
156 cm (5 ft 1 in)
Discipline
Women's artistic gymnastics
Years on national team
1979–82 (ROM)
Head coach(es)
Béla Károlyi
Assistant coach(es)
Marta Károlyi
Former coach(es)
Ana Crihan, Adrian Goreac[1]
Choreographer
Geza Poszar
Retired
1982
Medal record
Olympic Games
1980 Moscow
Team competition
1980 Moscow
Vault
1980 Moscow
Uneven bars
World Championships
1979 Fort Worth
Team competition
1979 Fort Worth
All around
1979 Fort Worth
Floor
Melita Ruhn (later Fleischer, born 19 April 1965) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1980 Summer Olympics.[2] She belongs to the German minority in Romania.
She won three Olympic medals (team, vault, uneven bars) for Romania and scored a perfect ten for the vault optionals in the team competition of the 1980 Olympic Games.[3] In 1979 she was a member of the first world gold medal-winning team of Romania. She is also an all around and floor world bronze medalist.
^Melita Ruhn. Romanian Olympic Committee
^Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Melita Ruhn". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 October 2008.
^"1980 Olympics, Women's Team"". "Gymn-Forum. 26 June 1999.
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