WGMElena-Luminita Cosma

Elena-Luminița Cosma, who first competed as Elena-Luminița Radu, won world youth silver medals at under-sixteen and under-eighteen level before taking the under-eighteen title in 1990. She added world junior girls' silver in 1992. Her Romanian women's championship victories spanned 1991 to 2016. She became a Woman Grandmaster in 1994 and played in the following year's Women's Interzonal. Cosma won or shared first in three women's international tournaments in Bucharest during the early 1990s. At the 1998 Olympiad, she earned individual silver on third board. She also helped Romania win European team silver in 1997 and bronze in 1999. Her 1999 performance on second board brought individual gold.