Iuliana Paleu

{{short description|Romanian canoeist}}

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| event = Sprint canoe

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Iuliana Paleu (born September 30, 1990, in Bicaz, Neamț) is a Romanian sprint canoeist.{{cite web|title=Iuliana Paleu|url=http://www.london2012.com/athlete/paleu-iuliana-1051784/|publisher=London 2012|accessdate=19 February 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130501131458/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/paleu-iuliana-1051784/|archivedate=1 May 2013}}{{cite sports-reference|title = Iuliana Paleu|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/iuliana-paleu-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418092557/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pa/iuliana-paleu-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 19 February 2013}} Paleu is a member of the canoe and kayak team for CS Dinamo București, and is coached and trained by Iuan Sipos.

Paleu represented Romania at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's K-2 500 metres. Paleu and her partner Irina Lauric paddled to an eighth-place finish and sixteenth overall in the B-final. They were nineteen hundredths of a second (0.19) behind the Russian pair of Natalia Lobova and Vera Sobetova, who posted a time of 1:52.468.{{cite web|title=Women's Kayak Double (K2) 500m Final B|url=http://www.london2012.com/canoe-sprint/event/kayak-double-500m-women/phase=cfw125100/index.html|publisher=London 2012|accessdate=19 February 2013|archive-date=11 April 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130411074454/www.london2012.com/canoe-sprint/event/kayak-double-500m-women/phase=cfw125100/index.html|url-status=dead}}