Nadia Comaneci

Fourteen-year-old Romanian gymnast, Nadia Comaneci, delighted crowds at the 1976 Olympics in Montreal, Canada. She won three gold medals, a silver and a bronze, scoring the first perfect score of 10.00 in Olympic gymnastics - and going on to do it seven times during the games. Having been programmed to reject 10 out of 10 as impossible, the Olympic computer was baffled by Comaneci's maximum scores.

Nadia was spotted at the age of seven  by top Romanian coach Bela Karolyi and trained intensively for years. She was nicknamed "Little Miss Perfect".