Playing on their own turf, the Romanian national women’s volleyball side
secured a 3-1 win against Croatia in a group A game for the preliminaries of
the European Championship of 2023. Croatia had won the first game with the same
score. Romania ranks first in the group’s standings with 9 points followed by
Croatia also with 9, Israel with 3 and the Faroe Islands with zero points. The
first two sides are qualified for the final tournament next year. Romania’s
next game is a home one against the Faroes on September 7th while
four days later they will be taking on Israel in an away game.
Romania’s male water polo side lost to Montenegro 13-8 in the play-offs
of the European Championships underway in Split, Croatia. Romania will be
playing Israel in the semifinals in order to occupy one place between the 9th
and 12th teams in the ranking. Our women’s side also lost to Hungary
22-0 and will be up against Slovakia for one of the 9th and 12th
positions.
Romania’s swimmers have triumphantly ended the World Junior Championships
in Lima with another gold medal. In the finals of the 50 meter freestyle race,
Bianca Costea came first in 25 seconds and 35 hundredths. The other medalists
were David Popovici, Vlad Stancu, Patrick Sebastian Dinu, Stefan Cozma and
Alexandru Constantinescu.
Romania also boasts 9 medals, five gold and four silver at the European
Rowing Under 23 Championships held in Hazewinkel, Belgium. The medalists were
the men’s coxed four and the women’s four, the women’s quadruple sculls, the women’s
and men’s eights. The women’s coxed four became silver medalist in the aforementioned
competition and so did the men’s pair, the men’s four and the women’s double
scull.
Now let’s have a look at the results of the 9th leg of Romania’s
first football league. CS Mioveni has obtained a one-nil win against Sepsi Sf.
Gheorghe, Universitatea Cluj ended in a one-all draw their game against FCU Craiova,
and so did the game pitching UTA Arad against Chindia Targoviste. FC Voluntari
versus Rapid Bucharest ended nil-one while Petrolul Ploiești outperformed FC
Botoșani 2-1.
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