Ruxandra Dumitrescu

Ruxandra Dumitrescu
Personal information
Nationality	Romania / Greece
Born	20 April 1977 Galați, Romania
Height	186 m (610 ft 3 in)
Volleyball information
Number	16 (national team)
Career
Years Teams 1994-1997 1997-2003 2003-2010 Dacia Pitesti FO Vrilissia Panathinaikos
National team
1994 2004 Romania Greece

Ruxandra Dumitrescu (born April 20, 1977) is a retired volleyball player born in Galați, Romania. She competed with the Romania women's national volleyball team at the 1994 FIVB Volleyball Women's World Championship in Brazil.^[1] Naturalized Greek, she competed also with the Greece women's national volleyball team. She is 186 cm tall.

Dumitrescu played on club level with Dacia Pitesti 1994. She had a great career with Panathinaikos women's volleyball team (2003–10), winning 6 Championships, 5 Cups and reaching in 2009 the final of the CEV Women's Challenge Cup. She is considered by the fans one of the best players in the team's history. Her shirt number (9) was retired by the club in her honour.

She is a devoted fan of Panathinaikos A.O. and in 2012 she was candidate with the Panathinaikos Movement. She was married with the Greek Olympic silver medalist Alexandros Nikolaidis and they have a son named Filippos.

References

1. "Women Volleyball XIII World Championship 1994 - Teams Composition. - Romania". todor66.com. Retrieved 29 November 2015.

Sources

• Rouxi Doumitreskou
• contra.gr