Marian Rizan | ||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Rizan in 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Craiova, Socialist Republic of Romania | 29 October 1966|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Marian Rizan (born 29 October 1966) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. He competed at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics with the best individual result of 9th place on the pommel horse in 1988. [1] He placed third in this event at the 1987 European and fourth at the 1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. [2]
Rizan retired from competitions around 1991 to become a gymnastics coach and trained the Romanian national team from 1994 to 1996. After that he worked as a national coach in Denmark. [3]