Mihaela Cambei, special award in the ProSport 2024 Big Sports Gala

Mihaela Cambei had a special evening at ProSport Big Sports Galaand she received the first prize from the event moderated by Costin Deșliu.

Silver medalist at the Olympic Games in Paris, Cambei gave an emotional speech, thinking especially about the coach who helped her achieve this excellent performance, it is Valeriu Calancea.

Mihaela Cambei, special award at the ProSport Big Sports Gala: “She put up with me and took care of me!”

Mihaela Cambei also wanted to thank her family for their support in recent years, but she believes that the merit of her coach was the most important before the Olympic Games that took place in France.

“First of all, I want to thank you for this invitation, for this wonderful award. I am honored to be here. I want to start by thanking God and my family, otherwise I wouldn’t be here. I would like to thank Mr. Valeriu Calancea, coach with whom I reached the Olympic Games. Where he put up with me and took care of me. Together, we managed to return home with an Olympic medal, which we wanted very much. I want to thank the Romanian Weightlifting Federation for all the support it offered us, but also to the club coaches”, said Mihaela Cambei, during ProSport Grand Sports Galas.

“I can’t promise what’s to come from now on, because no one can know that. I learned to win, I learned that failure is part of the process of success. If someone were to ask me what my advice would be for people, it would be that if you want to buy something, without looking at money, then work without looking at time”, he also transmitted change

How Mihaela Camba’s rise began

At the World Weightlifting Championships, which took place in December 2022 in Bogota, the first competition that scored points for the qualification for the Paris 2024 Olympics, Mihaela Cambei won the silver medal in the snatch style, within the limits of the Olympic category 49 kg, after she succeeded to “pluck” 90 kg.

In 2016, at the European Championships reserved for athletes under 15 years of age (U15) in Poland, he won the continental title within the limits of the 44 kg category, in total, with 137 kg.

In 2017, at the European Weightlifting Championships reserved for athletes up to the age of 17 (U17) in Prishtina (Kosovo), within the limits of the 48 kg category, he won the gold medal overall, with 158 kg.

Also in 2017, at the World Cadet Championships in Bangkok (Thailand), he ranked 5th overall, within the limits of the 44 kg category, with 139 kg (7th place in the snatch, with 60 kg and 5th place in the throw, with 79 kg, 7 kg away from the bronze medal).

In 2018, at the U17 European Championships in Italy, within the limits of the 48 kg category, he won the continental title in total, with 155 kg, after climbing on the first step of the podium both in the snatch, with 67 kg, and in the throw, with 88 kg