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    At the World Ice Hockey Championships in Bolzano, Italy, Romania secured a 2-1 win against Hungary. The Romanians lost the first two matches to Italy and Slovenia with the same scoring 1-6. On Friday, Romania will be playing South Korea in an attempt to avoid the last place in the group.

     

    Romania’s male handball side Dinamo Bucharest has qualified for the semifinals of the European League, the second best inter-club competition after the Champions league. On Tuesday, the Romanian champions clinched a 38-34 away win against Danish side Skjern Handbold in the second round of the quarterfinals. The league’s Final Four tournament will be taking place in Hamburg over May 25th and 26th.

     

    In women’s handball, Rapid Bucharest continue their fight for a second position in the Romanian championships, a position which can push them right into the Champions League. Rapid defeated Gloria Buzau 32-28 in an away match on Wednesday. Eliza Buceschi and Serbian player Anđela Janjušević each scored seven goals for the vice-champions. Diana Ilina also scored seven goals for Gloria. Rapid has three points ahead the side, which also aspires to the title, Gloria Bistriţa, with a game in hand. CSM Bucharest ranks first in the standings.

     

    This weekend will be seeing matches counting towards the Romanian football Superleague. On Friday in Ovidiu, on the Romanian Black Sea coast, local side Farul will be up against Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe.

     

    On Sunday CFR Cluj plays Rapid Bucharest at home while on Monday, Universitatea Craiova, on their own turf, takes on FCSB. The Bucharest side is already champion, while Universitatea has the same number of points with CFR and are fighting for a second place, which ensures qualification for the preliminaries of the European Conference League.

     

    On Saturday, FC Voluntari goes to Botoşani, and Dinamo plays in Cluj the local side Universitatea. On Sunday in Ploiesti, southern Romania, local side Petrolul is taking on Oţelul Galati. On Monday, Hermannstadt plays Poli Iaşi at home, while UTA receives FCU 1948. On the last positions in the ranking and fighting to avoid demotion are Poli Iaşi and Dinamo, each with 21 points. FC U Craiova has 22, FC Voluntari 23 and FC Botoşani – 24.

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    Romanian tennis player Anca Todoni has managed a spectacular 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 win against Spanish challenger Sara Sorribes Tormo at the WTA 125 tournament in Mexico. Todoni, 19, came from qualifications and needed four hours and 14 minutes to achieve the performance against the third-seeded Tormo currently ranking 52nd in the world ranking. The Romanian got a check of 2,000 dollars and 21 WTA points. She will next take on Julia Riera, a 119 WTA player from Argentina.

    In the first round of the WTA 125 in Antalya, with 115.000 dollars in prize money, Romanian tennis player Gabriela Ruse was defeated by Katarzyna Kawa of Poland, 3-6, 7-6, 6-2. The 26 year old and 170 WTA Romanian player conceded defeat after three hours during which she failed to capitalize on two game balls in the tiebreak of the second set. Ruse will get a check of 1.250 dollars and 7 WTA points.

    The Romanian women’s handball side Rapid Bucharest on Wednesday qualified for the Final Four tournament of Romania’s Cup after a 29-23 away win in the quarterfinals against Gloria Buzau. French player Orlane Kanor scored nine goals for Rapid and Serbian Anđela Janjušević scored eight times. Gloria’s best player was the Hungarian international Tamara Pál with 10 goals scored. The other sides in Romania’s Cup are teams that are already playing in the European Cups such as CSM Bucharest, Gloria Bistriţa and Dunărea Brăila. CSM has qualified for the quarter finals of the Champions League while Bistriţa and Brăila, for the semifinals of the European League.

     

    Four highly-performing athletes last week got the Romanian citizenship in order to be included in the country’s national sides. They are chess players Richard Rapport, born in Hungary, Jovana Rapport, former Vojinović of Serbian descent and Kirill Shevchenko of Ukraine. They were joined by Gorguet Maidelines, a former member of the Cuban national judo team.

    According to a communiqué of the government in Bucharest, quoted by Agerpres, they applied for citizenship in 2023. Their applications have been approved by the Citizenship Committee with the National Authority for Citizenship, after the legal conditions have been met.

    Grand International Masters Richard Rapport and Kirill Shevchenko have already been registered as Romanian players with the International Chess Federation FIDE

    They are ranking 27th and 64th respectively in a top 100 ranking, which also includes Bogdan Deac on the 44th position. Kirill Shevchenko has been playing for Romania for more than one year and won silver in 2023 at the European Championship held between March 2nd and 14th in Vrnjacka Banja, în Serbia.

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