Ardeleanu learnt fencing at a local club under coach Alexandru Csipler. She transferred in 1964 along with
Ecaterina Iencic and
Ileana Gyulai to
CSA Steaua București, which are related to the football team
Steaua Bucharest, where she was trained by Andrei Vâlcea. Along with
Olga Szabo,
Maria Vicol,
Ana Ene-Derșidan and Ileana Gyulai, she became team world champion at the
1969 World Fencing Championships in Havana. She retired as an athlete after the
1980 Summer Olympics and became a fencing coach in Satu Mare along with her husband, foil fencer
Ștefan Ardeleanu. ==References==