Romanian David Popovici on
Wednesday walked away with gold from the 200 meter freestyle race of the World
Junior Swimming Championships in Lima, Peru. Popovici ended the race in 46
seconds and 18 hundredths, a new record for the aforementioned competition. It
was a great summer for the Romanian swimmer who reaped four gold medals in the
200 meter freestyle races of the European and world championships for juniors
and senior swimmers. The medal he won on
Wednesday was the second for David in Lima, after that in the 4×100 meter
freestyle race.
Farul Constanţa and Rapid
Bucureşti are putting more distance between them and the rest of the teams in
the Romanian Football Super-league. After the eighth leg this week, the gap
between the two sides and the rest of the group rose up to four points. Let’s now
have a look at the leg’s main results. On Tuesday, CS Mioveni versus UTA Arad ended
in a one-all draw. Then in Târgu Jiu, southern Romania, FC U Craiova secured a
1-0 win against Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe. In the day’s third game, Rapid obtained
a 1-0 home win against Universitatea Cluj.
On Wednesday in Ploieşti, local
side Petrolul defeated Chindia Târgovişte 3-2, while in Cluj, western Romania,
the local team CFR obtained 4-0 win against FC Voluntari. In Ovidiu on the
Romanian Black Sea coast, Farul Constanţa won their game against FCSB, 3-1. In
the Superleague’s ranking, after Farul and Rapid, each with 18 points, next
comes FC Argeş with 14. Friday will see the first two matches, in the in the
Superleague’s ninth leg, when in Sfantu Gheorghe local side Sepsi pays FC
Mioveni and then Universitatea Cluj on their own turf will be taking on FC U
Craiova.
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