After years of hard training, she took part in the first competitions: the national gymnastics championships for women.

In 1979 she was a member of the first Romanian team to win gold at a world artistic gymnastics championships.

He received 14 medals in the European gymnastics championships.

The national gymnastics championships are now not much more than a large invitational, with only 22 colleges still competing in the sport.

That same year, he also won the national boxing championship and an international gymnastics championship.

Two years later came the 1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.

She became the first woman since 1969 to win the all-around and four events finals at the national gymnastics championships in Nashville, Tenn., last summer.

It is also a regular site for the Mid-American Conference's wrestling and women's gymnastics championships.

At the 2012 Australian Gymnastics Championships in Sydney, she won the all around event.

Zhang's first international competition was the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.