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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    Romania’s grand chess master Bogdan
    Deac won the bronze medal in the European Rapid and Blitz Chess Championship held
    in Zagreb, Croatia. Deac obtained 9 points out of 11 matches, being
    outperformed by the 23-year old grand master Alexey Sarana of Russia, who is
    now representing Serbia and eventually won the title with 9.5 points.




    Armenian grand master Haik
    Martirosyan ended in the second position also with 9 points, but outperformed Bogdan
    Deac at tiebreaker criteria. Also worth noting is the performance of junior grand
    master David Gavrilescu, who managed to come sixth in the aforementioned
    competition.




    The World Women’s Handball Championship
    has come to an end. In the finals in Denmark on Sunday, France outperformed
    Norway 31-28. Defending champions France claimed their third world title after
    those in 2003 and 2017. Romania’s side came 12th and thus failed to
    qualify for the Olympics next year.




    Bucharest sides Steaua and Dinamo
    lost the home matches they played on Sunday in the 10th leg of
    Division A1 in men’s volleyball. The vice-champions of the past edition, Steaua
    lost to SCM Zalau 3-1 and Dinamo to Corona Brasov, 0-3.


    Corona tops the ranking with 28
    points out of 10 games, followed by the en titre champions Arcada Galati with
    23 points out of 9 matches




    Last weekend saw the matches counting towards
    the 20th leg of Romania’s Football Superleague. On Friday, FCU Craiova
    1948 clinched a 1-0 win against Voluntari, then in Ploiesti, local side
    Petrolul ended in a goaless draw their match against Rapid Bucharest. On
    Saturday in Sibiu, central Romania, UTA Arad versus Farul Constanta also ended
    in a draw, nil-all. Also a draw, two-all, was the result of the game pitching
    Universitatea Craiova against Poli Iasi, while FCSB clinched a 3-0 home win against
    Hermannstadt.


    On Sunday Universitatea Cluj lost
    nil-one their home game against Otelul Galati while CFR conceded a 1-2 defeat
    in their away game against Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe.


    FCSB tops the ranking with 41
    points followed by CFR Cluj and Universitatea Craiova eight points less.

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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup


    Romanian athlete Alina Rotaru-Kottmann has walked away with bronze from the long jump event at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. In the finals held on Sunday, Alinas longest jump measured 6 meters and 88 centimeters, which is the best result so far obtained by this athlete who is currently competing for Steaua Bucharest sports club.


    The gold medal was won by Ivana Vuleta of Serbia, with 7 meters and 14 centimeters, the worlds best performance this year. Tara Davis Woodhall of the USA came third with a jump of 6 meters and 91 centimeters.


    Romanias Super-cup in mens handball went to Dinamo Bucharest. On Sunday in Bucharest, Dinamo secured a 25-20 win against CSM Constanta. Ukrainian Andrii Akimenko was the best scorer of the victors with 6 goals. Dinamo also won the trophy in 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2022. In the small finals Minaur Baia Mare outperformed CSU Suceava 47-43.


    Romanias rugby side has ended its training matches for the World Cup starting in France in September. In the last game, the Romanians lost to Italy in San Benedetto del Tronto 57-7. Romania played without a man since the ninth minute after Adrian Motoc had been given an early shower. In the other two test-matches, Romania lost to the United States in Bucharest 31-17 and to Georgia 56-6 in Tbilisi. The Romanian fifteen will be first taking on Ireland in Bordeaux on September 9th.


    Last weekend saw the matches of the sixth leg of the Romanian Football Superleague. On Friday, Petrolul outperformed FCU Craiova 1948 4-3, while Universitatea Craiova defeated UTA Arad 3-0. On Saturday, FC Botosani ended in a goaless draw their home match against Otelul Galati, while Dinamo Bucharest outperformed FC Voluntari 3-2. On Sunday, in Bucharest, Rapid secured a 3-1 win against Farul Constanta, while FCSB clinched 2-1 victory against Poli Iasi


    On Monday Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe takes on Hermannstadt and Universitatea Cluj plays CFR Cluj. FCSB comes first in the ranking with 15 points out of 5 matches, followed by Universitatea Craiova with 14 points out of 6 matches.


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