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  • Athlete of the week

    Athlete of the week

    Romanian football team FCSB after two rounds in Europa league has six points on their record sheet, out of a similar number of matches played. This past Thursday, holders FCSM succeeded a precious 1-nil away win against Greek team PAOK Thessalonica. For FCSB, it was the second win in a row.

    It was a difficult game, all the more so as, from 55 minutes, FCSB were one man shy on the pitch since Darius Olaru was eliminated, being twice yellow-booked. The one-goal advantage provided by Daniel Barligea’s feat in added time was as frail as ever, yet FCSB succeeded to maintain the advantage. There were moments when FCSB’s defensive line-up proved powerless, yet goalie Stefan Tarnovanu made the difference with a couple of stunning saves.

    Reason enough for Radio Romania International to designate Tarnovanu the Athlete of the week.
    In Thessalonica, Tarnovanu succeeded his first save in minute 9, when he deflected Ghanaian Abdul Rahman Baba’s header. Then on 39 minutes Tarnovanu succeeded yet another last-gasp save as Brazilian Taison attempted a shot at goal.

    In the second half, Tarnovanu again shone, thanks to a couple of saves he succeeded just six minutes after Olaru was eliminated, when Giannis Konstantelias shot the ball from inside FCSB’s box, or when he deflected Russian Magomed Ozdoev’s header. Tarnovanu was again put to the test on 85 minutes, then again, in the first minute of extra time, when he twice deflected Tiémoué Bakayoko’s header. In the seventh minute of added time, Tarnovanu proved he was also lucky: when shot by Ioannis Michailidis, the ball touched one of the posts and the score stayed the same.

    Ştefan Târnovanu was born on May 9, 2000 in Iasi, in the east. He made his debut in football with the local Politehnica’s juniors team. As a senior footballer, in 2018 Stefan Tarnovanu made his debut in League One, when Politehnica Iasi drew against Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe, 1-all. Stefan has been playing for FCSB since 2020. We recall FCSB won the domestic champion title in 2024. Stefan Tarnovanu made his debut with the national team in November 2022, in Romania’s friendly match against Republic of Moldova, when Romania won, 5-nil. Tarnovanu was a full-timer in the national squad’s most recent game in the League of Nations, when Romania grabbed a 3-1 win against Lithuania.

  • Sports flash

    Sports flash



    Romanian football team FCSB has won the first leg of the tie against Slovak opponents Dunajska Streda, 1-nil, away from home. The fixture counts towards the European competition’s third preliminary round. FCSB’s Montenegrin midfielder Risto Radunović’s free kick enabled Estonian center back Joonas Tamm to score an unstoppable header goal. FCSB had the upper hand throughout the game, tactically, but also in terms of physical engagement, so FCSB are the favorites to making headway into the competition. The return leg is scheduled this coming Thursday, on the National Arena in Bucharest. If they outclass Dunajska Streda, FCSB will play the winner of the fixture pitting Norway’s Viking Stavanger against Sligo Rovers of the Irish Republic. FCSB’s next scheduled confrontation will decide their access to the Conference League group stage.



    The 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are underway in Halifax, Canada. The Romanian delegation’s main favorite to winning a medal, Cătălin Chirilă, on Wednesday qualified to the K1 500m race, having emerged as winner of the heat he was part of. Chirila clocked one minute, 50 seconds and 27 hundredths of a second, the best timing of this past Wednesday’s heat races. The Romanian was two seconds better than the 1000m race Olympic champion, the Brazilian Isaquias Queiroz. We recall that in 2022, at the World Championships in Copenhagen, no Romanian individual rower or crew succeeded to reach as far as the finals. In 2019, at then the World Championships in Hungary’s Szeged, Romania also had a lackluster run. Best-placed back then was the men’s canoe double 1000m crew, made of Victor Mihalachi and Cătălin Chirilă who came in 5th and who also secured their qualification to the Tokyo Olympics. In the 2017 edition of the of World Championships held in Racice, the Czech Republic, Victor Mihalachi and Leonid Carp won silver in the men’s canoe double 500m race.



    On Wednesday, in the round of 16 as part of the WTA 250 Washington tennis tournament, an event with 215,750 USD in prize money, Simona Halep pulled out of competition. Third-seeded Halep had no choice other than retire for medical reasons, after only 66 minutes of play, when her opponent, Russia’s Ana Kalinskaya, had a 7-5, 2-nil advantage. In the women’s doubles, the Czech-Romanian pair made of Monica Niculescu and Lucie Hradecka advanced to the semifinals, having secured a 7-6, 3-6, 10-2 win against the all-American pair made of Makenna Jones and Sloane Stephens.(EN)



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  • Sports flash

    Sports flash



    Romanian football team FCSB has won the first leg of the tie against Slovak opponents Dunajska Streda, 1-nil, away from home. The fixture counts towards the European competition’s third preliminary round. FCSB’s Montenegrin midfielder Risto Radunović’s free kick enabled Estonian center back Joonas Tamm to score an unstoppable header goal. FCSB had the upper hand throughout the game, tactically, but also in terms of physical engagement, so FCSB are the favorites to making headway into the competition. The return leg is scheduled this coming Thursday, on the National Arena in Bucharest. If they outclass Dunajska Streda, FCSB will play the winner of the fixture pitting Norway’s Viking Stavanger against Sligo Rovers of the Irish Republic. FCSB’s next scheduled confrontation will decide their access to the Conference League group stage.



    The 2022 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are underway in Halifax, Canada. The Romanian delegation’s main favorite to winning a medal, Cătălin Chirilă, on Wednesday qualified to the K1 500m race, having emerged as winner of the heat he was part of. Chirila clocked one minute, 50 seconds and 27 hundredths of a second, the best timing of this past Wednesday’s heat races. The Romanian was two seconds better than the 1000m race Olympic champion, the Brazilian Isaquias Queiroz. We recall that in 2022, at the World Championships in Copenhagen, no Romanian individual rower or crew succeeded to reach as far as the finals. In 2019, at then the World Championships in Hungary’s Szeged, Romania also had a lackluster run. Best-placed back then was the men’s canoe double 1000m crew, made of Victor Mihalachi and Cătălin Chirilă who came in 5th and who also secured their qualification to the Tokyo Olympics. In the 2017 edition of the of World Championships held in Racice, the Czech Republic, Victor Mihalachi and Leonid Carp won silver in the men’s canoe double 500m race.



    On Wednesday, in the round of 16 as part of the WTA 250 Washington tennis tournament, an event with 215,750 USD in prize money, Simona Halep pulled out of competition. Third-seeded Halep had no choice other than retire for medical reasons, after only 66 minutes of play, when her opponent, Russia’s Ana Kalinskaya, had a 7-5, 2-nil advantage. In the women’s doubles, the Czech-Romanian pair made of Monica Niculescu and Lucie Hradecka advanced to the semifinals, having secured a 7-6, 3-6, 10-2 win against the all-American pair made of Makenna Jones and Sloane Stephens.(EN)



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  • Sports roundup

    Sports roundup

    Gabriela Ruse this past Sunday was the winner of
    the Open demonstrative tennis tournament in Cluj Napoca. In the final, Ruse
    outclassed Irina Begu in straight sets, 604, 603. Proving their mettle in the tournament
    were six Romanian women tennis players. They were WTA 81st-placed Irina Begu, Jacqueline Cristian,
    WTA 162, Irina Bara, WTA 159th-placed, Gabriela Ruse, WTA 177th-placed,
    Georgia Craciun, WTA 354th-placed and WTA 387th-placed
    Miriam Bulgaru.

    30,000 USD were up for grabs in the
    aforementioned tournament, the first one Romania has staged since COVID-19
    restrictions were lifted countrywide. A mixed doubles demonstrative match
    concluded the tournament, as Simona Halep and Horia Tecau took on Marius Copil
    and Gabriela Ruse. It took the former pair ninety minutes to grab their win,
    6-3, 6-4. Halep and Tecău will represent Romania in the
    Olympic Games in Tokyo, in the mixed doubles event. Matches were played in
    empty arenas and enjoyed a live transmission provided by a specialized TV station. Matches could also be accessed on the
    tournament’s Facebook page.


    In news from football, the Romanian Sergiu Hanca scored one
    goal for KS Krakow, the team that this past Saturday snatched a 3-nil away win
    against Lechia Gdansk, in a Group 1 match counting towards the Polish
    championship’s 34th round. Hancu thus added the 9th goal
    to his record sheet, in 32 games he has played so far. Full-back Cornel Râpă and midfielder Sergiu Hancam were
    full-timers on the pitch in the aforementioned fixture.


    Romanian striker George Puşcaş scored one goal and provided
    two assists this past Saturday, in a match counting towards the 41st
    round in English football championship’s second League, pitting Reading against
    red lantern team Luton Town. In Reading’s 5-nil away win against Luton, Puscas
    scored the fourth goal with a header. Also, Puscas twice provided assists for Reading’s
    Ivorian footballer Yakou Meite, who scored no less than four goals for his
    team. In the 32 matches he has played so far, Puscas scored 10 goals. In the
    Second league, Leeds United are at top of the table, with 78 points, while
    Puscas’s team Reading FC are second-placed, with 52.


    In the domestic championship’s Group 1, on Sunday,
    Politehnica Iasi grabbed a 3-1 win against Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe, while
    Academica Clinceni sustained a 1-3 defeat by Dinamo Bucharest. Group 2’s sixth
    round saw Gaz metan medias losing to Universitatea Craiova, 1-2 on Friday. On
    Saturday, FCSB
    were held by FC Botosani to a 1-all draw. On Sunday, Astra Giurgiu drew against
    CFR Cluj, 2-all. Universitatea Craiova are at the top of the table, with 38
    points, CFR Cluj are the runner-up team, with 37, while 3rd-placed
    are Astra Giurgiu, with 29. Coming in descending order are FCSB and FC
    Botosani, each with 28 points, and Gaz Metan Medias, with 25.


    (Translation by Eugen Nasta)



  • Sports roundup

    Sports roundup

    Gabriela Ruse this past Sunday was the winner of
    the Open demonstrative tennis tournament in Cluj Napoca. In the final, Ruse
    outclassed Irina Begu in straight sets, 604, 603. Proving their mettle in the tournament
    were six Romanian women tennis players. They were WTA 81st-placed Irina Begu, Jacqueline Cristian,
    WTA 162, Irina Bara, WTA 159th-placed, Gabriela Ruse, WTA 177th-placed,
    Georgia Craciun, WTA 354th-placed and WTA 387th-placed
    Miriam Bulgaru.

    30,000 USD were up for grabs in the
    aforementioned tournament, the first one Romania has staged since COVID-19
    restrictions were lifted countrywide. A mixed doubles demonstrative match
    concluded the tournament, as Simona Halep and Horia Tecau took on Marius Copil
    and Gabriela Ruse. It took the former pair ninety minutes to grab their win,
    6-3, 6-4. Halep and Tecău will represent Romania in the
    Olympic Games in Tokyo, in the mixed doubles event. Matches were played in
    empty arenas and enjoyed a live transmission provided by a specialized TV station. Matches could also be accessed on the
    tournament’s Facebook page.


    In news from football, the Romanian Sergiu Hanca scored one
    goal for KS Krakow, the team that this past Saturday snatched a 3-nil away win
    against Lechia Gdansk, in a Group 1 match counting towards the Polish
    championship’s 34th round. Hancu thus added the 9th goal
    to his record sheet, in 32 games he has played so far. Full-back Cornel Râpă and midfielder Sergiu Hancam were
    full-timers on the pitch in the aforementioned fixture.


    Romanian striker George Puşcaş scored one goal and provided
    two assists this past Saturday, in a match counting towards the 41st
    round in English football championship’s second League, pitting Reading against
    red lantern team Luton Town. In Reading’s 5-nil away win against Luton, Puscas
    scored the fourth goal with a header. Also, Puscas twice provided assists for Reading’s
    Ivorian footballer Yakou Meite, who scored no less than four goals for his
    team. In the 32 matches he has played so far, Puscas scored 10 goals. In the
    Second league, Leeds United are at top of the table, with 78 points, while
    Puscas’s team Reading FC are second-placed, with 52.


    In the domestic championship’s Group 1, on Sunday,
    Politehnica Iasi grabbed a 3-1 win against Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe, while
    Academica Clinceni sustained a 1-3 defeat by Dinamo Bucharest. Group 2’s sixth
    round saw Gaz metan medias losing to Universitatea Craiova, 1-2 on Friday. On
    Saturday, FCSB
    were held by FC Botosani to a 1-all draw. On Sunday, Astra Giurgiu drew against
    CFR Cluj, 2-all. Universitatea Craiova are at the top of the table, with 38
    points, CFR Cluj are the runner-up team, with 37, while 3rd-placed
    are Astra Giurgiu, with 29. Coming in descending order are FCSB and FC
    Botosani, each with 28 points, and Gaz Metan Medias, with 25.


    (Translation by Eugen Nasta)