Doina Ignat

Doina Ignat is a Romanian rower, born on 20 December 1968 in Rădăuți-Prut and later a member of the Steaua București club. She won six Olympic medals at five Games between 1992 and 2008, four of them gold. She took silver in the women's quadruple sculls at Barcelona in 1992, then gold in the women's eight at Atlanta in 1996, gold in both the coxless pair with Georgeta Damian and the eight at Sydney in 2000, gold in the eight at Athens in 2004, and bronze in the eight at Beijing in 2008. Her wins in the eight at three consecutive Games place her among the rowers who defended an Olympic title in the same event in back-to-back Games.