Silvia Stroescu

Her senior debut at a major international event was at the 2001 World Championships. Here she contributed to Romania's sixth team title^[4] by competing on beam and uneven bars. Individually, she placed eleventh all around and seventh on floor.^[5] Later that year she won the mixed pair Swiss Cup event together with Marian Drăgulescu.^[6] In the period 2002–2003 she did not make the team for major international events but she competed at the national championships and at some friendly international competitions.^[3] After being sidelined for two years, she joined the team for the 2004 European Championships where she contributed to the team title.^[7] Just weeks before the 2004 Olympic Games she decided to give up gymnastics being disappointed for not making the Olympic team. However, her disappointment was short lived and she returned to replace injured Aura Munteanu. Stroescu went to Athens and was part of an immensely successful Romanian women's gymnastics team (four golds, one silver and one bronze in six events) that also included Oana Ban, Monica Roșu, Cătălina Ponor, Daniela Sofronie and Alexandra Eremia. Though the team members were less experienced than most of their rivals, the Romanians hit every routine to take the team gold by a comfortable margin. World champions USA were second, and the Russians, led by Svetlana Khorkina, took the bronze.^[8]

• Bio and List of competitive results at the Wayback Machine (archived 12 December 2007)
• Silvia Alexandra Stroescu at the International Gymnastics Federation
• Silvia Stroescu at Olympics.com
• Silvia Stroescu at Olympic.org (archived)
• Silvia Stroescu at Olympedia
• Silvia Stroescu at the Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (in Romanian) (archive)