| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 5 October 1955 Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Aurora Dan (born 5 October 1955) is a Romanian fencer. She won a silver medal in the women's team foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. [1] [2]
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 5 October 1955 Bucharest, Romania | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Fencing | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||
Aurora Dan (born 5 October 1955) is a Romanian fencer. She won a silver medal in the women's team foil event at the 1984 Summer Olympics. [1] [2]
An aurora , also commonly known as the northern lights or southern lights, is a natural light display in Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions. Auroras display dynamic patterns of brilliant lights that appear as curtains, rays, spirals, or dynamic flickers covering the entire sky.
Aurora is a home rule municipality located in Arapahoe, Adams, and Douglas counties, Colorado, United States. The city's population was 386,261 at the 2020 United States Census with 336,035 residing in Arapahoe County, 47,720 residing in Adams County, and 2,506 residing in Douglas County. Aurora is the third-most-populous city in the State of Colorado and the 52nd-most-populous city in the United States. Aurora is a principal city of the Denver–Aurora–Lakewood Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) and a major city of the Front Range Urban Corridor.
Aurora is a town in central York Region in the Greater Toronto Area, within the Golden Horseshoe of Southern Ontario, Canada. It is located north of the City of Richmond Hill and is partially situated on the Oak Ridges Moraine. In the Canada 2021 Census, the municipal population of Aurora was the 92nd largest in Canada, compared to 95th for the 2016 Census and 97th for the 2006 Census. Aurora is twinned with Leksand, Sweden.
Lin Dan is a Chinese former professional badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, five-time World champion, two-time World Cup champion, two-time Asian games gold medalist, four-time Asian Champion, as well as a six-time All England champion. Widely regarded as the greatest badminton player of all time, by the age of 28 Lin had completed the "Super Grand Slam", having won the full set of all nine major titles in the badminton world of his time: Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup, Thomas/Uber Cup, Sudirman Cup, Year-end Finals, All England Open, Asian Games, and Asian Championships, becoming the third player to achieve this feat after Ge Fei and Gu Jun.
Datuk Lee Chong Wei is a Malaysian former professional badminton player. As a singles player, Lee was ranked first worldwide for 349 weeks, including a 199-week streak from 21 August 2008 to 14 June 2012. He is the fifth Malaysian player after Foo Kok Keong, Rashid Sidek, Roslin Hashim and Wong Choong Hann to achieve such a ranking, and is the only Malaysian shuttler who has held the number one ranking for more than a year. On 2 May 2023, Lee was inducted to BWF Badminton Hall of Fame. He is considered in sources as one of the greatest badminton players of all time.
Gauge is an American pornographic actor and feature dancer.
Arab diaspora is a term that refers to descendants of the Arab emigrants who, voluntarily or as forcibly, migrated from their native lands to non-Arab countries, primarily in the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, and West Africa.
Jorge Roldán Popol, known popularly as El Grillo ("cricket"), was a Guatemalan football coach and player.
West Aurora High School, or WAHS, is a public four-year high school located in Aurora, Illinois. It is part of West Aurora Public School District 129. The school is also referred to as "West," and "West High,".
Dan O'Halloran is a National Hockey League referee, who wears uniform number 13. He was one of the selected referees who officiated the 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and the 2017 Stanley Cup Finals.
Marin Dan is a retired Romanian handball player. He earned 98 caps for the national team and scored 160 goals, winning the world title in 1974 and an Olympic bronze medal in 1972. After retiring from competitions he worked for the Securitate in a counterintelligence unit. He is married to the Olympic fencer Aurora Dan.
Daniel Beery is an American competition rower, Olympic champion, world champion and world cup gold medalist.
Annina Rajahuhta is a Finnish retired ice hockey forward, currently serving as co-head coach of the Kiekko-Espoo girl's under-16 and under-18 teams. She played ten seasons with the Finnish national team, winning bronze medals at the 2010 and 2018 Winter Olympics prior to retiring from international competition in 2020.
Taylor Ritzel is an American rower who was part of the United States women's eight team at the 2012 Summer Olympics. The team won an Olympic gold medal. She has also been part of the women's eight world championship winning team twice, in 2010 and 2011.
On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting occurred inside a Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, United States, during a midnight screening of the film The Dark Knight Rises. Dressed in tactical clothing, 24-year-old James Eagan Holmes set off tear gas grenades and shot into the audience with multiple firearms. Twelve people were killed, and 70 others were injured, 58 of them from gunfire.
James Eagan Holmes is an American mass murderer responsible for the 2012 Aurora theater shooting in which he killed 12 people and injured 70 others at a Century 16 movie theater on July 20, 2012. He had no known criminal background before the shooting occurred. Before the shooting, Holmes booby-trapped his apartment with explosives, which were defused one day later by a bomb squad.
Aurora Aksnes, known mononymously as Aurora, is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and record producer. Born in Stavanger and raised in the towns of Høle and Os, she began writing her first songs and learning dance at the age of six. After some of her songs were uploaded online and became popular in Norway, she signed a recording contract with Petroleum Records, Decca and Glassnote Records in 2014. Aurora gained recognition with her debut extended play (EP), Running with the Wolves (2015), which contained the sleeper hit "Runaway". Later that year, she provided the backing track for the John Lewis Christmas advert, singing a cover of the Oasis song "Half the World Away".
Samantha Faye Sendel is a Canadian individual and synchronised trampoline gymnast, representing her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including at the 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015 Trampoline World Championships. She was Canada's alternate female trampoline competitor in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Lauren Nicole Carlini is an American volleyball player. She plays for the United States women's volleyball team. She won the 2016 Sullivan Award as America's best amateur athlete.
Events from the year 1947 in Romania. The year saw the abdication of Michael I of Romania and foundation of the Romanian People's Republic.
  | This article about a Romanian Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
  | This biographical article related to fencing in Romania is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |