POPESCU Ana Maria

Olympic Games

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	9	1
2012	London, GBR	11	6
2008	Beijing, CHN	2	-
2004	Athens, GRE	16	-

World Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Budapest, HUN	9	10
2018	Wuxi, CHN	2	12
2015	Moscow, RUS	17	2
2014	Kazan, RUS	9	5
2013	Budapest, HUN	5	3
2011	Catania, ITA	3	1
2010	Paris, FRA	19	1
2009	Antalya, TUR	9	6
2008	Beijing, CHN	-	5
2007	St. Petersburg, RUS	21	10
2006	Turin, ITA	5	4
2005	Leipzig, GER	5	11
2003	Havana, CUB	37	8
2002	Lisbon, POR	3	-

European Championships

Year	Location	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2019	Dusseldorf, GER	26	9
2018	Novi Sad, SRB	6	8

World Cup overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Epee Individual	Epee Team
2020/2021	1 x 33rd	1 x 15th
2019/2020	1 x 1st, 1 x 2nd, 1 x 17th	1 x 9th, 1 x 11th
2018/2019	1 x 5th, 2 x 34th	1 x 7th, 1 x 12th, 1 x 13th
2017/2018	1 x 10th, 1 x 13th, 1 x 14th	1 x 4th, 1 x 9th, 1 x 10th

Grand Prix overview - Three best ranks per season since 2016/2017

Year	Epee Individual
2019/2020	1 x 1st, 1 x 17th
2018/2019	1 x 1st, 1 x 3rd
2017/2018	1 x 1st, 1 x 8th
2016/2017	1 x 6th

World Cup & Grand Prix - Ten best performances since 2016/2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2019/2020	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Doha, QAT
1	2019/2020	Epee Individual	World Cup	Tallinn, EST
1	2018/2019	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Budapest, HUN
1	2017/2018	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Doha, QAT
2	2019/2020	Epee Individual	World Cup	Havana, CUB
3	2018/2019	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Cali, COL
4	2017/2018	Epee Team	World Cup	Barcelona, ESP
5	2018/2019	Epee Individual	World Cup	Dubai, UAE
6	2016/2017	Epee Individual	Grand Prix	Doha, QAT
7	2018/2019	Epee Team	World Cup	Barcelona, ESP

Ana Maria Branza

Collecting mementos from places she visits while competing, roller skating, spin classes, growing herbs for cooking. (Facebook page, 12 Jun 2019)

Athlete

Physical Education - University of Craiova, Romania

Husband Pavel Popescu

English, Romanian, Spanish

CSA Steaua Bucuresti [Romania]

George Epurescu [national], ROU; Mihai Popa [national], ROU

Left (fie.org, 2016)

Her husband Pavel Popescu has played water polo for the CSA Steaua Bucuresti club in Romania. (Facebook profile, 17 Jun 2017; agerpres.ro, 03 Oct 2014)

She underwent surgery on her right knee in May 2020 due to issues that affected her during the 2019/20 season. (gsp.ro, 26 May 2020)

She had a problem with her left hand following the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. (ESCRIME XXI, 08 Mar 2012)

She began fencing in 1996 in Bucharest, Romania. (Facebook page, 18 Jun 2017)

Her parents wanted her to take up a sport. She initially played tennis before her older brother Marius, who was a member of CSA Steaua Bucuresti's youth football team, took her to his club's fencing hall. After six months of training, she became national champion in her age group. (adevarul.ro, 30 May 2010)

To compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (gds.ro, 25 Feb 2021)

"Fencing is my passion, not a job." (anamariabranza.ro, 01 Jun 2017)

In 2017 she and her teammates from the national epee team received the Performance and Team Spirit Award from Romanian news agency News.ro. (frscrima.ro, 28 Mar 2017)

In 2016 she received a Sports Merit Order Class I from the government of Romania. (frscrima.ro, 27 Sep 2016)

In 2016 she was named an Honorary Citizen in Bucharest, Romania. (frscrima.ro, 09 Nov 2016)

In 2015 she was named Athlete of the Year by the CSA Steaua Bucuresti club in Romania. (mediafax.ro, 17 Dec 2015)