Lorena Menghia
Lorena Menghia (born Iași, Romania on June 12, 1988) is a Romanian former track and field athlete. Her main event was the high jump, but she also competed in the triple jump, pentathlon, heptathlon, and javelin throw.[1][2]
Biography
Career
Her interest in sports began when she was 4 years old and she tried sports such as soccer, tennis, basketball, and gymnastics, none of which held her interest.
When she was 10 years old, she was persuaded by her older sister, Catrinel Menghia, to start training with her for track and field. Soon after, she began to try out several athletic events and within a year she became a national champion in the Pentathlon, scoring a national record as well.
She participated in the Youth European Championships in Hengelo and the World Championships in Marrakech. In 2005, she was ranked 11th high jumper in Europe in her age category.
Menghia continued to train for the pentathlon until she was 14 years old, when she transferred to a new coach, Marius Ghilase. Soon after, he and Menghia chose to concentrate on her best event, the high jump. She won several national and Balkan titles, competed in the World and European Championships, but did not make it to the final due to a patellar tendon rupture.
She attended the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska (USA) from 2009–2012, graduating with a degree in Business Management and International Affairs.[3]
At UNL she started competing in the triple jump and had some notable performances, which led her to focus more on this event.
After graduating, she returned to Europe and competed for A.S. Monaco, qualifying in 2017 for the Games of the Small States in the high jump.
Post-Athletics
Since 2015, she has been working for Global Millennium Development Foundation, an NGO with consultative status with the U.N. In 2018, she became a project manager for the foundation.
Menghia launched a couple of companies of her own: an investment company called Ambra Ventures in Monaco and a food company called Magu Foods Inc. in New York City.[4]
Personal life
Lorena has an older sister, Catrinel Menghia(Marlon), who is a well-known supermodel and actress.
References
- ↑ Menghia, Lorena. "IAAF". www.iaaf.org. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ↑ "European Athletics - Athlete: Lorena Menghia". european-athletics. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ↑ University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "Lorena Menghia Bio". Huskers.com. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
- ↑ "About". Magu Foods. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
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