Pascu's first sport was
handball. She took to fencing at age 10 after a fencing coach from CSM Brașov went to her school and noticed the sport would suit her well. In 2008, Pascu won the silver medal both in the individual and the team events of the Junior European Championships in
Ghent. She also earned silver at the
2011 Summer Universiade in
Shenzhen, after being defeated in the final by Ukraine's
Olha Kharlan. In the
World Championships at
Catania that same year, she had to forfeit her bout against Germany's
Stefanie Kubissa in the table of 64 after she ruptured her knee ligament. After three operations in a row, she qualified for the
2012 Summer Olympics, but lost the first preliminary round bout to China's
Zhu Min, with a score of 10–15. In the
2013 World Championships at Budapest, she defeated
Julieta Toledo of Mexico in the table of 64, but stumbled against Ukraine's
Halyna Pundyk. She won bronze at the
2017 European Championships. ==References==