Lavinia Corina Milosovici was born in Lugoj, Romania on October 21, 1976. Her last name was originally Milosovic, but because of political problems it was changed to Milosovici. Lavinia was brought to the gym for the first time when she was only 7 and she loved it and was quite good. When she was 9, she got scarlet fever and almost left gymnastics, but she recovered and soon became a member of Deva. Even at a young age Lavinia showed promise and was being compared to gymnastics greats, like Nadia and Daniela Silivas. Lavinia first stepped out of the shadow and into the spotlight in the 91 Worlds, where she helped her teal to a bronze medal and won gold for herself in the individual vault competitions. After her great performance a Worlds, she quickly became one of the favorites to medal in the AA at the 92 Olympics in Barcelona.
1992 was another good year for Lavinia, she won bars at the Individual Apparatus World Championships and made the Olympic team. She performed incredibly in Barcelona, leading her team to a silver medal, and getting the bronze for herself in the AA, but that was not all. During the team competition she had qualified for all 4 event finals. In the first event vault she tied for the gold medal with 2 great vaults. She came in 4th on bars and 8th on beam (she fell), and was determined to redeem herself in the last event, floor. She hit her first pass, a full-in punch front perfectly, she moved through her dance elements effortlessly and her middle tumbling pass was incrdible. Then she capped of the stellar set with a fantastic full-in. It was one of the bast routines she had ever done and it was perfect. The judges noticed the same thing and rewarded her with a 10! Lavinia won the gold easily for no one was able to measure up to her perfect performance.
1993 was a difficult year for Lavinia, with the new code she had to change her routines to make them all worth a 10 again. She only finished 8th in the AA at Worlds that year, but came back to win beam, making her the only women to win a gold on every apparatus in world or Olympic competition this decade.
In 1994 she was in better shape, she finished 2nd in the AA while Shannon Miller clinched her second World AA title, but she did help her team to the gold in the 1994 Team World Championships latter that year. In the 95 Worlds almost the same thing happened.
She came to the 96 Olympics in Atlanta knowing it was probably her last Olympics, and she wanted to make it a good one. With the largely American crowed cheering so loudly for the Americans you could hardly her anything and several of the gymnasts being injured, there chances for a medal seemed slim. But the team came together when it counted and won the bronze. Lavinia went on to win another bronze in the AA.

Now Lavinia is a coach in Romania and will hopefully turn out some great gymnasts like herself.