Lavinia Agache

Lavinia Agache
Agache at the 1984 Olympic Games
Full name	Lavinia Agache-Carney
Country represented	Romania
Born	February 11 1968 (1968-02-11) Caiuţi, Bacău County, Moldovia, Romania
Years on National Team	1980-1985
Club	Gymnastics School in Oneşti
Coach(es)	Octavian Belu, Maria Cosma, Adrian Goreac Béla Károlyi, Marta Károlyi (former)
Current status	Retired

Lavinia Agache (-Carney) (b. 11 February 1968 in Căiuţi, Bacău) is a retired Romanian gymnast. She had a successful senior career winning a number of ten medals at major international events. She medaled team gold at the 1984 Olympics and team silver at the 1983 Worlds. Individually she won an Olympic bronze medal on vault, three medals at the 1983 Worlds (silver on vault and uneven bars, and bronze on beam) and four medals at the 1983 European Championships (gold on beam, silver all around and uneven bars, and bronze on vault).

Early Life and Career

She began gymnastics in 1974 at the age of 6 with Mihai Agoston and Maria Florescu, and was later coached by Bela and Marta Karolyi before their defection to the United States and later on by Octavian Bellu, Adrian Goreac and Maria Cosma. She had a promising junior career winning bronze all-around at the 1980 Junior European Championships and the 1981 International Japan Junior Invitational. In 1985 she retired due to a broken kneecap warming up on balance beam at the University Games.  She has two younger siblings named Gabriel and Monica.

Post-Retirement

After retiring from gymnastics, Agache finished her university studies in Romania. In 1991 she moved to the United States to coach after participating in the World Professional Championships. She has lived in California,Oklahoma,Minnesota and Florida. In 1995 she married an American, Tom Carney. They later divorced. In 2004, she got remarried to Manuel "Manny" Ramos and currently resides with him and their dog, a Shizu named Sasha, in Plantation,Florida. They have four nieces;Sarah, Emily, Anna and Rachel. Agache is currently coaching at Intensity Gymnastics in Margate, Florida. She has previously coached at Orlando Metro,Everglades Gymnastics and Nova Gymnastics.  Her mother, brother and sister also live in Florida.

Medal Count

Year	Event	TF	AA	VT	UB	BB	FX
1980	Junior European Championships		3rd
1981	International Japan Junior Invitational		3rd
1982	Romanian International		3rd			1st
1983	Romanian International		2nd
	Budapest World Championships	2nd	2nd	3rd	2nd	1st
1984	Romanian International		1st
	Los Angeles Olympic Games	1st		3rd
1985	Hungarian International		1st