Marilena Neacșu

Marilena Neacșu (born 15 August 1961 in Sibiu, Romania) is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast.^[1] She won a silver medal with the Romanian team at the 1978 World Championships^[2] and was an alternate for the 1976 Summer Olympics.^[3]

Marilena Neacșu
Born	(1961-08-15) 15 August 1961 (age 64) Sibiu
Gymnastics career
Discipline	Women's artistic gymnastics
Country represented	Romania
Head coach(es)	Béla Károlyi
Assistant coach(es)	Marta Károlyi
Former coach(es)	Nicolae Buzoianu, Cristl Voiciulescu
Choreographer	Geza Pozar
Medal record World Championships 1978 Strasbourg Team

Neacșu appeared in the 1990 Romanian/Canadian movie Campioana ("Reach for the Sky", or "La championne" in French).^[4] While shooting for the movie, she met her future husband, who was part of the crew. She then moved with him to Montreal, where they married and had three children.

Neacșu currently works at the "Club de gymnastique artistique Gadbois" in Montreal as a gymnastics coach. Her stepfather is Canadian film producer Rock Demers.