Talk:Elena Horvat

Uncertainty about the pre-1981 career

The German Wikipedia article about Horvat has this to say:

According to the Olympic database Sports-Reference, Elena Horvat was called Elena Oprea before 1981 and participated under this name at the Olympic Games in 1976 and 1980. According to the database of the World Rowing Federation (FISA), Oprea's career began with a medal win as a rower (not as a cox) at the European Championships in 1971; Elena Horvat would have been thirteen years old. Volker Kluge mentions in his standard work about the 1980 Olympic Games that the 1958-born Elena Oprea competed in 1984 as Elena Horvat. On the other hand, according to Áros Károlys book about Hungarian Olympic athletes from all over the world that Elena Horvat was born in 1958 as Ilona Horváth. For the career of Oprea, there are thus two variants: either Elena Oprea was a different rower than Elena Horvat or there were two rowers named Elena Oprea, one of them was later called Elena Horvat.

I looked into this because I found it rather unlikely that a 13-year-old rower would have won a bronze medal at the 1971 European Rowing Championships. Schwede66 18:46, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Article split: Elena Horvat and Elena Oprea

According to Olympedia these are two different women (?):

• Elena Horvat born 4 July 1958 in Luizi-Călugăra: [1] - Example: de:Elena Horvat
• Elena Oprea Born 5 October 1953: [2] - Example: de:Elena Oprea

SportsOlympic (talk) 09:54, 1 July 2021 (UTC)

Excellent. Let’s split the article. Schwede66 15:19, 2 July 2021 (UTC)

Split has been done: Elena Oprea Schwede66 05:37, 16 August 2021 (UTC)