Daniela Mărănducă Nicolai (born 17 June 1976 in Constanţa, Romania) is a retired artistic and aerobic gymnast.

She was told that she would not be able to return to gymnastics but after recovering from her injuries she went back to Constanţa to train with the junior team.

Among these juniors was Simona Amânar who declared that seeing Mărănducă train and returning to the national team was "the best lesson [I] had ever learned".

Mărănducă retired from artistic gymnastics at the end of 1994 and went back to Constanţa where she majored in Environmental studies and helped with coaching at Farul.

[4] Among her colleagues at Aeros were Izabela Lăcătuș, Lăcrămioara Filip, Cristian Leric and Remus Nicolai.