Ioana Crişan

Ioana Teodora Crișan (born ) is a Romanian retired artistic gymnast. She competed at the 2017, 2018, and 2019 World Championships. Earlier in her career, she won a team bronze medal at the 2016 Junior European Championships.

Gymnastics career Junior Crișan won the all-around bronze medal at the 2014 Top Gym Tournament. She competed with the Romanian team that finished fourth at the 2015 European Youth Olympic Festival, and she placed sixth in the all-around.

Crișan helped the Romanian team win the bronze medal at the 2016 Junior European Championships. Individually, she finished ninth in the all-around. She also qualified for the balance beam final, but she injured her shoulder and was unable to finish her routine, finishing last. She won the all-around silver medal at the 2016 Romanian Championships and also won silver on the vault and bronze on the floor exercise. She then won a silver medal with the Romanian team at the 2016 Gymnasiade, and she also won the all-around bronze medal.

Senior Crișan made her senior international debut at the 2017 Sainté Gym Cup, competing only on the uneven bars and balance beam. She fell off the balance beam on her acrobatic series but hit a clean uneven bars routine. She then competed at the 2017 European Championships and advanced to the all-around final, finishing 18th. She won the all-around bronze medal at the 2017 Romanian Championships, behind Larisa Iordache and Denisa Golgotă. At the 2017 World Championships, she was initially the second reserve for the all-around final. However, when Ragan Smith was injured during the warm-up, Crișan was called up to compete. She ultimately finished 23rd in the final.

Crișan missed the 2018 European Championships due to an injury. She was then selected to compete at the 2018 World Championships along with Maria Holbură, Denisa Golgotă, Carmen Ghiciuc, and Nica Ivanus where they finished 13th and qualified as a team to the 2019 World Championships.

At the 2019 Romanian Championships, Crișan placed seventh in the all-around and won a bronze medal on the vault. She competed at the World Championships with Holbură, Ghiciuc, and Golgotă where they finished 22nd in the qualification round. This is the lowest the Romanian women have ever placed as a team at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, and they did not qualify as a team for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Competitive history