 This result, along with a quarter-final place at the 2005 World Championships in Leipzig, where she lost to Estonia's Maarika Võsu, allowed her to close the season in the Top 10 for the first time in her career.The next season she won her first World Cup title in Budapest and posted four top-eight finishes.At the European Championships in İzmir she was defeated in the second round by teammate Iuliana Măceșeanu.