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At least three women handball sides from Romania have made headway in the
European Cups. In the Champions League, CSM Bucharest stands good chances to
directly qualify for the quarterfinals if it outperforms Danish side Odense in
the away game they are going to play on Sunday. Odense ranks second in Group A,
two points ahead the Romanian champions, but this advantage can be cancelled in
case of a Romanian win. The first game opposing the two sides in Bucharest, in
September went to the Romanians 28-24.

Another Romanian side, the vice-champion Rapid Bucharest also stands good
chances to qualify for the competition’s next stage. Rapid ranks seventh in
Group B, a point less than the Hungarian side Ferencvaros. In the event of a
home win on Sunday against Danish side Esbjerg and if Ferencvaros loses to
Metz, in France, Rapid goes into the play-offs for the League’s quarterfinals. Both
sides that represented Romania in last year’s competition were stopped in their
tracks in the quarters.

In the EHF European League, a leg before the end of the groups competition,
Romania already boasts two sides in the quarterfinals. The first Romanian side
to have assured its place in this stage of the competition was Gloria Bistrita
with an away win against French team Nantes, their main Group C opponent. On
Saturday, the Romanians will be up against German side Bensheim / Auerbach. In
the quarters, Gloria may be playing either the Norwegian side Sola or the Spanish
side Malaga.

Dunărea Brăila qualified last Saturday, after a win against the group’s
leader Thuringer of Germany. At the end of this week, Dunărea will be up
against Chambray Touraine in France. After the final ranking configuration, in
the quarterfinals, Dunarea will be playing the Norwegians from Storhamar or Podravka
Koprivnica of Croatia. The third Romanian side in the European League, CSM
Târgu Jiu, is hankering for a win after five consecutive defeats. CSM will be
playing at home on Sunday the Hungarian side Mosonmagyaróvár.

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14 February 2024
Sports Roundup

After two legs of Rugby Europe Championship, Romania’s fifteen is presently
ranking first in Group B with two wins. The Romanians secured a 33-18 win
against Belgium in Bucharest on Saturday, when they scored five tries.

In the other match of the group, Portugal defeated Poland 54 – 7 in Lisbon.
Romania has 9 points and is followed by Portugal with 6. The two sides are
meeting in Bucharest next week in a decisive game for winning the group.

Both the Romanian sides in the Champions League in women’s handball
obtained wins in the past weekend. On Saturday in Group B, Rapid Bucharest clinched an away win 24-21 against Zaglebie
Lubin and they are ranking 7th in the group a point after the Hungarian side
Ferencvaros. If they win against Danish side Esbjerg, and the Hungarian side
loses to French team Metz, Rapid goes into the playoffs for the League’s
quarterfinals. In Group A on Sunday, CSM Bucharest secured a home win 31-28 against
German side Bietigheim. Romania’s champions are coming third in the ranking,
two points after Danish side Odense, which
they will be meeting in an away game on Sunday and if it wins CSM will go
directly into the quarterfinals.

In the Group B of the EHF European League, Dunărea Brăila on Saturday
secured a 33 – 23 home win against German side Thüringer, and has qualified for
the quarter-finals, a leg ahead of the group’s finals. Gloria Bistrita qualified
last week after outperforming Lublin in Poland 29-26 on Saturday and is topping
Group C. In Group D, CSM Târgu Jiu lost to Malaga on Sunday 26 – 30, registering
their fifth consecutive defeat.

The Women’s Tennis tournament Transylvania Open, with 267 thousand dollars
in prize money, ended in Cluj Napoca, western Romania on Sunday. In the finals,
the Czech player Karolina Pliskova clinched a two-set win 6-4, 6-3 against Ana
Bogdan of Rormania. The tournament in Cluj is the only WTA 250 competition
hosted by Romania.

Last weekend saw the football games of the 25th leg of the Romanian
Superleague. On Friday Otelul Galati obtained a 1-0 win against FCU Craiova,
while Universitatea Craiova and Universitatea Cluj ended their game in a
two-all draw.

On Saturday in Iasi the match pitching local side Poli against FC Voluntari
ended in a goaless draw. The match in Cluj between the local side CFR and Rapid
Bucharest was won by the visitors one-nil. On Sunday in Sibiu, Hermannstadt
versus Petrolul Ploiesti ended in a draw, nil-all, while in Bucharest local
side FCSB secured a 1-0 win against Sepsi Sf. Gheorghe.

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12 February 2024
Sports Roundup

Romanian gymnast Andrei
Muntean has qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris next year after ranking
30th in the individual all-round qualifiers of the World Gymnastics
Championships in Antwerp. This will be his second participation in the Olympics
after the edition in Rio in 2016. Unfortunately no athlete from our delegation played
in the finals of the present edition of the World Gymnastics Championship and Romania’s
team has again failed to qualify for the Olympics, ending the competition in
the 22nd place.

We move to women’s
handball now as in the Champions League Group B, Rapid Bucharest ended in a
24-all draw their away game against Hungarian side Ferencvaros on Saturday.
Rapid ranks sixth in the group with 3 points out of 4 games.

In Group A on
Sunday, CSM Bucharest secured a 41-26 win against Swedish champions Savehof and
are presently ranking fourth in the group with 4 points. The Champions League
resumes in three weeks.

In the European
League, Romanian side Dunarea Braila has qualified for the third preliminary
round after a 30-14 home win against Valur Reykjavik of Iceland. Dunarea also
won the away game 30-29 and will be up against German side Borussia Dortmund in
the third preliminary round. The first game will be an away one for the
Romanians on November 11th or 12th and the second game in Braila on November
18th or 19th. Borussia Dortmund ended the previous edition of the
aforementioned competition in the third position.

At the World Rugby
Cup underway in France, Romania’s national rugby side has registered their
third defeat in a row. Our players came a cropper against Scotland 84-nil on
Saturday. Romania also lost to Ireland 82-8 and 76-nil to South Africa.

Let’s move on to
football now. Last weekend saw the matches of the 11th leg of Romania’s
Superleague. On Friday Otelul Galati secured a 1-nil home win against Dinamo
Bucharest, while on Saturday in Arad, western Romania, local side UTA ended in
a goaless draw their match against FC Voluntari. On their own turf, Farul
Constanta, clinched a 2-1 win against Sepsi. On Sunday in Craiova,
south-western Romania local side Universitatea obtained a 5-1 win against FC
Botosani, while the match in Sibiu, central Romania, pitching the local side
Hermannstadt against Rapid Bucharest ended in a draw, one-all. In Cluj, western Romania, the local team CFR outperformed FCU Craiova 1948 2-nil. FCSB tops the ranking with 25 points followed
by CFR with 22.

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2 October 2023
RRI Sports Club

This week we have learnt the
definitive configuration of the semifinals of the regional competition Erste
Liga. The latest play-off match took place in Budapest on Monday pitching Ferencváros
against the Polar Bears of Miskolc. Ferencvaros won the match 2-1 sealing a 4-2
win on aggregate and advancing to the competition’s semifinals. There they will
be playing another Hungarian side, Budapest Jégkorong Akadémia, which secured a
4-0 play-off win against FEHA 19. The other two sides vying for a place in the
finals come from Romania and they are ACSH Gheorgheni and Corona Braşov. ACSH
clinched a 4-0 aggregate win against Hungarian side Dunaújváros, while Corona
outperformed Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc 4-1.

Out of the three Romanian sides
in the best-of-seven contest, two have qualified for the semifinals. Sport Club
Miercurea Ciuc was stopped in its tracks by Corona, after winning the latest
two editions of the Erste League. In 2021, the side from Harghita secured a 4-2
aggregate win against Corona Braşov and a year later obtained a 4-1 win against
Hungarian side Ferencváros.

Eight sides played in the
National Championships. Apart from the aforementioned Gheorgheni, Miercurea
Ciuc and Brasov, the Bucharest sides Steaua and Sportul Studentesc joined the competition
and so did CSM Galati, Fenestela 68 and Sapientia U23. Although the season isn’t
over yet, we already know three of the sides directly qualified for the
play-offs, namely Corona, Steaua and Gheorgheni

Galati, Fenestela, Miercurea ciuc
and Sapientia will be vying for the fourth place. Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc is
the defending champion.

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1 March 2023
RRI Sports Club

This week we have learnt the
definitive configuration of the semifinals of the regional competition Erste
Liga. The latest play-off match took place in Budapest on Monday pitching Ferencváros
against the Polar Bears of Miskolc. Ferencvaros won the match 2-1 sealing a 4-2
win on aggregate and advancing to the competition’s semifinals. There they will
be playing another Hungarian side, Budapest Jégkorong Akadémia, which secured a
4-0 play-off win against FEHA 19. The other two sides vying for a place in the
finals come from Romania and they are ACSH Gheorgheni and Corona Braşov. ACSH
clinched a 4-0 aggregate win against Hungarian side Dunaújváros, while Corona
outperformed Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc 4-1.

Out of the three Romanian sides
in the best-of-seven contest, two have qualified for the semifinals. Sport Club
Miercurea Ciuc was stopped in its tracks by Corona, after winning the latest
two editions of the Erste League. In 2021, the side from Harghita secured a 4-2
aggregate win against Corona Braşov and a year later obtained a 4-1 win against
Hungarian side Ferencváros.

Eight sides played in the
National Championships. Apart from the aforementioned Gheorgheni, Miercurea
Ciuc and Brasov, the Bucharest sides Steaua and Sportul Studentesc joined the competition
and so did CSM Galati, Fenestela 68 and Sapientia U23. Although the season isn’t
over yet, we already know three of the sides directly qualified for the
play-offs, namely Corona, Steaua and Gheorgheni

Galati, Fenestela, Miercurea ciuc
and Sapientia will be vying for the fourth place. Sport Club Miercurea Ciuc is
the defending champion.

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1 March 2023
RRI – Sports Club

For the first time in the history of Romanias participation in the Champions League, two Romanian womens handball sides have made it past the group stage. The two teams are Rapid Bucharest, Romanias en-titre champions and and the runner-up CSM, which also comes first in this years edition of the National League.

Rapid came 4th in Group B and go into the play-offs for the quarterfinals Their mission was difficult in a group eventually won by French side Metz. Hungarian side Gyor, the multiple winner of the aforementioned competition, came second while Danish side Esbjerg, third. The fifth-ranked Buducnost of Montenegro and Storhamar of Norway, which ranked sixth, have also joined the play-offs besides Rapid and Esbjerg.

For a place among the eight best sides of the continent Rapid will be up against Slovenian side Krim Ljubljana. The first game will take place on Sunday in Slovenia and the return game a week later in Bucharest. The winner of this double match will be playing in the quarters the Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand, winner of the last years edition of the Champions League.

CSM Bucharest came second in Group A and will go straight into the quarters. Cristina Neagu and her team mates have been outperformed only by Vipers Kristiansand, and only in the last leg when they lost their away match in Ljubljana

The other sides, which join the play-offs are Odense of Denmark, Ferencvaros of Hungary, Krim and Brest Bretagne of France.

CSM will be up against the winners of the match pitching Esbjerg against Brest Bretagne. The fight for a place in Final Four will see its first round in the last weekend in April and the second in the first weekend in May.

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15 February 2023
Sports weekend

At the European water polo championship held in Split, Croatia, the Romanian side played against Serbia for the ninth place in the ranking. Sadly Romania lost to Serbia 17-1 and occupied the tenth position out of the 15 participating sides.

Last night in Group B of the Conference League, British side West Ham United secured a 3-1 win against FCSB. In the other groups match Anderlecht Brussels outperformed Danish side Silkeborg 1-0.

In the group A of the preliminaries for the European Womens Volleyball Championship, on Sunday, Romanias national side will be taking on Israel in an away game. In the other game of the group, the Faeroe Island will be up against Croatia. Romania comes first in the ranking with 12 points followed by Croatia with 11, Israel with 7 and the Faeroes with no points.

This weekend will be seeing the matches of the Champions League in womens handball. Romanian side CSM is part of group A together with Ljubljana, Ferencvaros, Odense, Kristiansand, Most, Bietigheim and Brest Bretagne. In their first home game on Sunday, CSM takes on Slovenian side Ljubljana. The second Romanian side in the competition, Rapid Bucharest has joined Group B, which also includes Esbjerg, Gyor, Metz, Buducnost, Storhamar, Lokomotiv Zagreb and Kastamonou. Rapids first away game will be against Croatian side Lokomotiv Zagreb.

The rugby competition Europe Super Cup kicks off on Saturday. Romanian Wolves will be playing in the competition against Georgian sides Batumi and Black Lion and the Israelis from Tel Aviv Heat. The Romanian fifteen will be playing their first game against Tel Aviv Heat.

In the 10th leg of Romanias First Football League, FC Botosani will be up against UTA Arad on Friday. Chindia Targoviste plays Sepsi Sf. Gheorghe on Saturday, when FC Hermannstadt is up against Petrolul Ploiești. FCU Craiova takes on Rapid Bucharest. Sunday will see the matches pitching Farul Constanța against FC Argeș and CFR Cluj against CSU Craiova. The leg ends on Monday when CS Mioveni plays Universitatea Cluj and FCSB meets FC Voluntari. Rapid ranks first in the first leagues standings followed by Farul with 18 points and Petrolul with 17.

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9 September 2022
Sports weekend

At the European water polo championship held in Split, Croatia, the Romanian side played against Serbia for the ninth place in the ranking. Sadly Romania lost to Serbia 17-1 and occupied the tenth position out of the 15 participating sides.

Last night in Group B of the Conference League, British side West Ham United secured a 3-1 win against FCSB. In the other groups match Anderlecht Brussels outperformed Danish side Silkeborg 1-0.

In the group A of the preliminaries for the European Womens Volleyball Championship, on Sunday, Romanias national side will be taking on Israel in an away game. In the other game of the group, the Faeroe Island will be up against Croatia. Romania comes first in the ranking with 12 points followed by Croatia with 11, Israel with 7 and the Faeroes with no points.

This weekend will be seeing the matches of the Champions League in womens handball. Romanian side CSM is part of group A together with Ljubljana, Ferencvaros, Odense, Kristiansand, Most, Bietigheim and Brest Bretagne. In their first home game on Sunday, CSM takes on Slovenian side Ljubljana. The second Romanian side in the competition, Rapid Bucharest has joined Group B, which also includes Esbjerg, Gyor, Metz, Buducnost, Storhamar, Lokomotiv Zagreb and Kastamonou. Rapids first away game will be against Croatian side Lokomotiv Zagreb.

The rugby competition Europe Super Cup kicks off on Saturday. Romanian Wolves will be playing in the competition against Georgian sides Batumi and Black Lion and the Israelis from Tel Aviv Heat. The Romanian fifteen will be playing their first game against Tel Aviv Heat.

In the 10th leg of Romanias First Football League, FC Botosani will be up against UTA Arad on Friday. Chindia Targoviste plays Sepsi Sf. Gheorghe on Saturday, when FC Hermannstadt is up against Petrolul Ploiești. FCU Craiova takes on Rapid Bucharest. Sunday will see the matches pitching Farul Constanța against FC Argeș and CFR Cluj against CSU Craiova. The leg ends on Monday when CS Mioveni plays Universitatea Cluj and FCSB meets FC Voluntari. Rapid ranks first in the first leagues standings followed by Farul with 18 points and Petrolul with 17.

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9 September 2022
Sports Roundup

The city of Oradea in western
Romania last week saw a major women’s handball tournament entitled ‘The
Centennial Cup’, whose aim was to mark 100 years of Romanian handball. The
trophy went to Hungarian side Ferencvaros Budapest, who secured a 32-30 win in
the finals against CSM Bucharest, a side that is representing Romania in the Champions
League.

In the first games on Friday the
Hungarians had defeated Minaur Baia Mare 36-26 while CSM clinched a 28-26 win
against another Hungarian side, Debrecen. The domestic season in women’s
handball is due to kick off on Tuesday with the games in the Romanian Cup’s
round of sixteen.

Romania’s national volleyball side
was defeated on Sunday by the Netherlands 3-1 in Group D of the European
Championship underway in Cluj, western Romania. This has been our handballers’
third defeat after a 1-3 against Turkey and 0-3 against Sweden.

The Netherlands comes first in the
ranking followed by Turkey, each with three wins out of three matches. Romania
is on the group’s last position and will take on Finland on Tuesday.

Last weekend saw the football games
counting towards the sixth leg of Romania’s domestic championship. On Friday,
Chindia Targoviste and Academica Clinceni ended in a two-all draw their game in
Buzau, southern Romania. In Ovidiu, on the Black Sea coast, local side Farul
secured a 3-0 win against Dinamo Bucharest.

On Saturday, Universitatea Craiova
clinched a 1-0 away win against Gaz Metan Medias while CFR also obtained a 1-0
away victory against FC Arges. On Sunday, in Arad, western Romania, local side
UTA clinched a 2-0 win against FC Voluntary wile Rapid Bucharest versus FC
Botosani, ended with the former’s away 1-0 win.

Monday will see the leg’s last two
games, CS Mioveni versus FCU Craiova and FCSB versus Sepsi Sf. Gheorghe. CFR is
first in the ranking with 18 points out of 18 possible, followed by Rapid with
16 points, the only side that has got no goals in the present season.

23 August 2021
Sports Roundup

The city of Oradea in western
Romania last week saw a major women’s handball tournament entitled ‘The
Centennial Cup’, whose aim was to mark 100 years of Romanian handball. The
trophy went to Hungarian side Ferencvaros Budapest, who secured a 32-30 win in
the finals against CSM Bucharest, a side that is representing Romania in the Champions
League.

In the first games on Friday the
Hungarians had defeated Minaur Baia Mare 36-26 while CSM clinched a 28-26 win
against another Hungarian side, Debrecen. The domestic season in women’s
handball is due to kick off on Tuesday with the games in the Romanian Cup’s
round of sixteen.

Romania’s national volleyball side
was defeated on Sunday by the Netherlands 3-1 in Group D of the European
Championship underway in Cluj, western Romania. This has been our handballers’
third defeat after a 1-3 against Turkey and 0-3 against Sweden.

The Netherlands comes first in the
ranking followed by Turkey, each with three wins out of three matches. Romania
is on the group’s last position and will take on Finland on Tuesday.

Last weekend saw the football games
counting towards the sixth leg of Romania’s domestic championship. On Friday,
Chindia Targoviste and Academica Clinceni ended in a two-all draw their game in
Buzau, southern Romania. In Ovidiu, on the Black Sea coast, local side Farul
secured a 3-0 win against Dinamo Bucharest.

On Saturday, Universitatea Craiova
clinched a 1-0 away win against Gaz Metan Medias while CFR also obtained a 1-0
away victory against FC Arges. On Sunday, in Arad, western Romania, local side
UTA clinched a 2-0 win against FC Voluntary wile Rapid Bucharest versus FC
Botosani, ended with the former’s away 1-0 win.

Monday will see the leg’s last two
games, CS Mioveni versus FCU Craiova and FCSB versus Sepsi Sf. Gheorghe. CFR is
first in the ranking with 18 points out of 18 possible, followed by Rapid with
16 points, the only side that has got no goals in the present season.

23 August 2021
January 9, 2021

SCHOOL The National Committee
for Emergency Situations in Romania decided to extend the online education
process until February 7th. The suspension of activities involving
the physical presence of preschoolers and students in schools and other
education facilities comes right after the winter holiday. Education Minister
Sorin Campeanu had earlier specified that students could return to schools
starting February 8th. At a meeting with trade unions in the field,
representatives of parents and students’ associations, Campeanu said that it
all depends on the evolution of the pandemic adding that schools are going to
open differently taking into account the infection rate in the region. The
opposition PSD and AUR as well as the ruling UDMR are favoring the reopening of
schools, which they believe can be done next week.

REPATRIATION The Romanian sailor kidnapped from the Agisilaos ship off the
shores of Togo has been released and is to be repatriated in the following
days, the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest has announced today. According to the
same sources, in order to settle the incident, the Crisis Management Cell set
up on this occasion, has made a lot of efforts, which involved the company
which hired the Romanian and other international partners. On November 30th
2020, sources with the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest announced that Minister
Aurescu had summoned an inter-institutional crisis management cell to address
the incident in Togo involving the Agisilaos, where several sailors, including
a Romanian citizen, had been kidnapped.

DECISION The government in Bucharest is expected to pass an emergency
ordinance to grant additional sums of money to the medical personnel involved
in the anti-Covid National Vaccination Campaign. Under the draft, physicians
are to receive 20 Euros per hour and nurses 10, Health Minister Vlad Voiculescu
said. Family physicians are also going to get more money as they are considered
an essential pillar in the immunization campaign. Roughly 100 thousand people
have been immunized since the onset of the campaign; out of these only 314
reported minor side effects. Romania has so far received nearly 300 thousand
doses and 120 thousand of these doses have been directed to vaccination points.
Roughly 5,000 fresh Covid infections were reported on Friday, most of them in
capital Bucharest. The death toll exceeds 16,500 and 11 hundred are in
intensive care.

HANDBALL Romania’s vice-champions in
women’s handball, CSM Bucharest are in Budapest to take on local side
Ferencvaros Budapest in their first match counting towards the Champions League
Group A. The first game went to the Romanians 25-19. CSM ranks second in the
group with 11 points whereas Ferencvaros comes fourth with 8. On Sunday in the
Champions League’s Group B, Romanian champions, SCM Ramnicu Valcea are taking
on another Hungarian side, Gyor in a home match. The Romanians are last in
their group with no point out of 5 games played. Two other Romanian sides are
making their debut in the European League: Minaur Baia Mare takes on Norwegian
side Storhamar Handball Elite, while Dunarea Braila are up against French side
Fleury Loiret on Sunday.

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9 January 2021
Stories from the Romanian Sports World

The most important
football competition in the 1930s was the Central European
International Cup. Between 1927 and 1940 the competition brought
together elevens from Austria, Hungary, Italy, Yugoslavia,
Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Romania.

The first edition
attended by a Romanian side was that in 1937 when Venus Bucharest was
eliminated in the first round by Hungarian side Ujpest Budapest which
claimed wins in both the first and return games. A year later,
Ripensia Timisoara secured an aggregate win against Italian side AC
Milan, 3-0 and 1-3 in the return match, while another Romanian
eleven, Rapid Bucharest outperformed Ujpest Budapest 1-4 in their
away game and 4-0 at home.

Ripensia was
defeated twice in the quarter finals by Ferencvaros Budapest, 4 – 5
and 1 – 4, while Rapid was stopped in its tracks by Italian side
Genoa, which secured a 3-0 home win and lost in Romania 2-1. In order
to get a clear picture of the value of the opponents the Romanians
were facing, we should mention that Italy became champion in 1938
after defeating Hungary in the finals.

In 1939, Romania
was represented in the competition only by Venus Bucharest, which was
eliminated in the very first round by Italy’s champions Bologna.

A year later, in 1940, 8 sides were
vying for the title of the prestigious European competition, three
from Yugoslavia, three from Hungary and two from Romania, Venus and
Rapid. Venus was eliminated in the first round by BSK Belgrade, which
won both games, 1-0 and 3-0.

Rapid was up
against Hungaria Budapest in the first round. Rapid’s first game
was away and the hosts were the first to get the upper hand. However,
the Romanians made a comeback and Yugoslav international Vilmos Sipos
scored twice. At home, on the ANEF Stadium, the largest in Bucharest
at that time with over 20 thousand seats, the Romanian side clinched
a 3-0 win allowing sports publications in Bucharest to headline
‘Rapid
Romped Home against Hungaria Budapest in a Boring Match’.

Rapid’s away semifinals match
against Grajdanski Zagreb ended nil-all and so did the return game in
Bucharest. A tie game was hosted by Subotica in Yugoslavia, and ended
one-all. Romanian paper Universul headlined after the game: ‘A
third draw – 120 minutes of tough lively play and only two goals
scored: one by Zimmermanncici and one by Bogdan. Rapid, playing
without its best players, and Grajdanski with a complete lineup, have
again ended their game in a draw.’ Lots were drawn and Rapid
became the first Romanian finalist of a European cup.

The competition’s
finals against the Hungarians from Ferencvaros scheduled for August
1940 was canceled amid huge political tensions between the two
countries. Hungary’s territorial claims were eventually granted
under German pressure through the Second Vienna Arbitration on August
30th
1940.

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22 May 2020
Sports Roundup

The world’s number three tennis
player, Romanian Simona Halep, on Monday qualified for the quarter finals of
the Australian Open after a 6-4, 6-4 win against Elise Mertens of Belgium. The performance
has brought Halep, a Roland Garros and Wimbledon champion, 525,000 AUD and
430 WTA points. The Romanian will be up against Anett Kontaveit of Estonia in
the quarter-finals.

Romanian fencer Ana-Maria Popescu
on Sunday won the women’s individual epee contest in the Doha Grand Prix. The
Romanian secured a 15-9 win against Mara Navarria of Italy in the finals. We
recall that Popescu’s prize closet also includes a World Cup, which she won in
Tallinn in November last year and came in second at the World Cup in Havana on
January 10th. Ana-Maria tops the World Cup ranking and is very close
to qualification for the Tokyo Olympics.

Last weekend saw the fixtures of
the European Cups in women’s handball. In the Champions League on Saturday, SCM
Ramnicu Valcea secured a 31-16 home win against Krim Mercator Ljubljana in
their first match of Group 2. Hungarian side Gyor tops the group’s ranking with
8 points followed by Brest Bretagne of France with 8 points and Buducnost
Podgorica of Montenegro with 4 points. SCM is on the fourth position with 2
points as well as Krim and the Swedish side Savehof.

In a Group One fixture, CSM
Bucharest lost to Hungarian side Ferencvaros 23-33. Metz Handball of France is
ranking first with 8 points, followed by the Danish side Team Esbjerg with 6
points and the Norwegians from Vipers Kristiansand with 5. Russian side Rostov
Don is on the fourth position followed by Ferencvaros and CSM each with 3
points.

Romanian handball side Gloria
Bistrita-Nasaud secured their first win in the EHF Cup. The Romanians
outperformed Danish side Odense Handbold 25-23 in a home game. Odense comes
first in the group’s ranking with 6 points followed by ERD of Hungary with 5,
Gloria with 4 and Polish side MKS Lublin with only one point.

In the competition’s group B,
Magura Cisnadie of Romania lost at home to the Danish from Kobenhavn Handball
33-28 and are still at the group’s bottom with no points.

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27 January 2020
Sports Roundup

The world’s number three tennis
player, Romanian Simona Halep, on Monday qualified for the quarter finals of
the Australian Open after a 6-4, 6-4 win against Elise Mertens of Belgium. The performance
has brought Halep, a Roland Garros and Wimbledon champion, 525,000 AUD and
430 WTA points. The Romanian will be up against Anett Kontaveit of Estonia in
the quarter-finals.

Romanian fencer Ana-Maria Popescu
on Sunday won the women’s individual epee contest in the Doha Grand Prix. The
Romanian secured a 15-9 win against Mara Navarria of Italy in the finals. We
recall that Popescu’s prize closet also includes a World Cup, which she won in
Tallinn in November last year and came in second at the World Cup in Havana on
January 10th. Ana-Maria tops the World Cup ranking and is very close
to qualification for the Tokyo Olympics.

Last weekend saw the fixtures of
the European Cups in women’s handball. In the Champions League on Saturday, SCM
Ramnicu Valcea secured a 31-16 home win against Krim Mercator Ljubljana in
their first match of Group 2. Hungarian side Gyor tops the group’s ranking with
8 points followed by Brest Bretagne of France with 8 points and Buducnost
Podgorica of Montenegro with 4 points. SCM is on the fourth position with 2
points as well as Krim and the Swedish side Savehof.

In a Group One fixture, CSM
Bucharest lost to Hungarian side Ferencvaros 23-33. Metz Handball of France is
ranking first with 8 points, followed by the Danish side Team Esbjerg with 6
points and the Norwegians from Vipers Kristiansand with 5. Russian side Rostov
Don is on the fourth position followed by Ferencvaros and CSM each with 3
points.

Romanian handball side Gloria
Bistrita-Nasaud secured their first win in the EHF Cup. The Romanians
outperformed Danish side Odense Handbold 25-23 in a home game. Odense comes
first in the group’s ranking with 6 points followed by ERD of Hungary with 5,
Gloria with 4 and Polish side MKS Lublin with only one point.

In the competition’s group B,
Magura Cisnadie of Romania lost at home to the Danish from Kobenhavn Handball
33-28 and are still at the group’s bottom with no points.

(translated by bill)

27 January 2020