Amalia Lică


Amalia Maria Lică is a Romanian rhythmic gymnast. She became the first junior European Champion for Romania by winning gold with clubs in 2022. She is also the 2025 World silver medalist with clubs.
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Early life

Lică began gymnastics at age 5. Her mother saw her dancing around the house and first took her to ballet classes, then enrolled her in rhythmic gymnastics.

Career

Lică made her international debut in 2021, when she participated in the Irina Deleanu Cup.

Junior

In 2022, she became a junior. Her first competition was the Grand Prix in Moscow, where she won silver in the team competition. She also took part in the International Sofia Tournament, where she won silver with ribbon, and the Irina Deleanu Cup, where she won gold in all-around. In June she was selected for her first European Championships in Tel Aviv, Israel. There she won silver in teams with Christina Dragan. Individually, she won a historical gold in the clubs apparatus final, which made her the first junior individual European Champion from Romania.
In 2023, she made her debut competing in the Italian Serie A championship, joining the club Eurogymnica Torino. In March she won bronze with clubs and gold with hoop at the Fellbach-Schminden tournament. A week later she won four golds at the Aphrodite Cup in Athens.
The next season, Lică competed at the 2024 European Cup Baku, where she won bronze medal in the team competition. Individually, she won silver medals with hoop and clubs and a bronze medal with ribbon. At the 2024 European Championships, she won the junior team gold along with Lisa Garac, then won three of the four junior apparatus finals in hoop, clubs, and ribbon. In October, she won the Romanian junior national title in the all-around.

Senior

In 2025, she became a senior. On March 7-9, she competed at International Tournament Bosphorus Cup in Istanbul, Turkey and placed 14th in All-around. She won silver in Team competition together with Andreea Verdes. On 4-6 April, she competed at 2025 World Cup Sofia, she big mistakes her ribbon routine and took 42nd place in the all-around and did not advance into apparatus finals. On April 18-20, she competed at Baku World Cup, where she took 40th place in all-around.
She was selected to represent Romania together with Andreea Verdes at the 2025 European Championships in Tallinn, Estonia. She took 14th place in the all-around final. She qualified to ribbon final, finishing 8th. In July, she competed at the Milan World Cup, where she took 29th place in the all-around. On July 25-27, she competed at the Cluj-Napoca World Challenge Cup and finished 7th in the all-around. She took 4th place in clubs and 8th in ribbon final.
In August, she represented Romania at the 2025 World Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and took 17th place in the all-around final. She qualified to clubs final, where she won a historic silver medal, the first World Championship medal of any color for Romania since Irina Deleanu, who won a bronze in 1992.
In October, she competed in the Aeon Cup in Tokyo with teammates Ileana Dutu and Patricia Stanciu, where the ACS Dandri Bucharest took 5th place in team competition. In the senior all-around, Lică won the bronze medal behind Taisiia Onofriichuk and Rin Keys.

Achievements

Competitive highlights

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