Marian Drăgulescu

Milestones
At the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo he became the first artistic gymnast to represent Romania at five editions of the Olympic Games. His three medals at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens made him the second male gymnast representing Romania to win more than one Olympic medal. (SportsDeskOnline, 29 Sep 2021)

He is the most decorated male Romanian gymnast at the world championships, having claimed a total of 10 medals [eight gold, two silver] at 13 appearances at the tournament between 1999 and 2019. (SportsDeskOnline, 12 Mar 2020; libertatea.ro, 09 Jun 2019)

Awards
He has received the title of Merited Master of Sport in Romania.
In 2005 and 2009 he was named Romanian Athlete of the Year.

Additional information
The International Gymnastics Federation [FIG] has included the ‘Dragulescu’ in their Code of Points scoring system for vault. The element is a handspring double front somersault with a half-turn. „I am honoured and I am happy. My name is in the Code of Points, and my name will go on. It is a very beautiful vault, and it is not easy. Not everyone does it. What gymnast would not be proud if they had invented an element in gymnastics?”