Natalia Mărăşescu (née Andrei on 3 October 1952) is a retired Romanian middle distance runner who specialized mainly in the 1500 metres.

The record was broken by Mary Slaney won ran in 4:21.68 minutes a year later in the same city.

This record lasted less than four months before being broken by Jan Merrill.

[3][4] After 8 months Mărăşescu was reinstated[5] after IAAF President Adriaan Paulen of the Netherlands said that an 18-month suspension in the steroid case would have kept the women[4] out of the Moscow Olympics, which would have constituted "an extra penalty."

This biographical article relating to Romanian athletics is a stub.