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  • Olympic update

    Olympic update

    Romanian athlete Bianca Ghelber came in 9th in the hammer throw finals held as part of the Paris Olympics on Tuesday. Ghelber’s best throw measured 72 de meters and 36 de centimeters. Bianca had claimed her place in the final with the 11th throw in the competition, standing at 71 meters and 42 centimeters. World title holder, Canada’s Camryn Rogers, compelled recognition with a throw of 76 de metres and 97 centimetres.

    It is for the 4th time around when 34-year-old Bianca Ghelber participates in the Olympic Games, In Tokyo in 2021 Ghelber was 6th-placed accordion got the finbal rankings. in the final. At the London Olympics in 2012 Bianca Ghelber ranked 17th, while in 2008 in Beijing Bianca Ghelber was unable to go past the qualifiers. We recall that Romania last won an Olympic medal in athletics in 2008, when Constantina Dita walked away with gold in the marathon.

    Also in news from athletics, on Tuesday Alina Rotaru – Kottmann advanced to the long jump final, with the 9th performance in the qualifiers. Alina’s best jump measured 6 meters and 63 centimeters. World vice-champion, US athlete Tara Davis-Woodhall, managed a jump of 6 meters and 90 centimeters, the best performance in the qualifiers. She was followed by Italy’s Larissa Iapichino with a jump of 6 meters and 87 centimeters. Defending Olympic champion, Germany’s Malaika Mihambo, jumped 6 meters and 86 centimeters. In 2023 at the World Athletics Championships in Budapest. lina Rotaru – Kottmann won bronze with a jump of 6 meters and 88 centimeters. The women’s long jump final is scheduled on Thursday.

    On Tuesday, Romanian rowers Ilie Sprîncean and Oleg Nuţă advanced to the 500m men’s pair race, having come in second in the first quarterfinal. Ilie Sprîncean and Oleg Nuţă clocked one minute and 40 seconds, being outclassed by Brazil’s Jacky Jamael Nascimento Godmann and Isaquias Guimaraes Queiroz, who clocked one minute, 38 de seconds and 78 hundredths of a second. The semifinals and the final are to be held on Thursday. Romania last won a kayak canoe medal in Sydney in 2000 when Florin Popescu and Mitică Pricop won gold in men’s 1000m pair race and bronze, in the 500m race.

  • Sports flash

    Sports flash


    The World Rowing Championships are underway in Racice, The
    Czech Republic. Among the Romanian crews likely to step onto a step of the
    podium there is the defending Olympic and European Champion women’s pair made
    of Ancuța Bodnar and Simona Radiș. Also worth watching is the progress of the
    women’s coxed eight crew, a European title holder as well.


    In news from women’s handball, Romania’s champion team,
    Rapid Bucharest, on Wednesday secured a comfortable 34-25 away win against Magura
    Cisnadie, in a fixture counting towards the National League’s 5th
    round. In another regular match, Baia Mare defeated Dunărea Brăila, 27-25. Quite
    surprisingly, Gloria Buzău are at the top of the table, with 12 points in four
    games. CSM Bucharest is the runner-up team, with 10 points in four games.


    Former FCSB head-coach, Anton Petrea, on Wednesday was
    appointed at the helm of a Chindia Târgovişte. The latter team’s former
    head-coach, Adrian Mihalcea, had a mutual consent contract termination with
    Chindia’ s management this past Tuesday. After 11 rounds in the Super League, Chindia
    Târgovişte is at the bottom of the table in the rankings, with a mere 3 points and
    a no-win record.


    Romania’s national football team is in Helsinki for a Nations
    League fixture against Finland on Friday. In League B’s third group, Romanian’s
    national team is 4th-placed according to the as-it-stands table, with
    only 3 points on its record sheet. Finland is 3rd-placed, with 4
    points, Bosnia and Herzegovina are at the top of the table, with 8 points,
    followed by Montenegro, with 7. In Bosnia’s Zelnica this coming Friday, Bosnia
    and Herzegovina go against Montenegro. In Bucharest on Monday, Romania takes on
    Bosnia and Herzegovina, while in Podgorica, Montenegro plays Finland. (EN)



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  • Sports flash

    Sports flash


    The World Rowing Championships are underway in Racice, The
    Czech Republic. Among the Romanian crews likely to step onto a step of the
    podium there is the defending Olympic and European Champion women’s pair made
    of Ancuța Bodnar and Simona Radiș. Also worth watching is the progress of the
    women’s coxed eight crew, a European title holder as well.


    In news from women’s handball, Romania’s champion team,
    Rapid Bucharest, on Wednesday secured a comfortable 34-25 away win against Magura
    Cisnadie, in a fixture counting towards the National League’s 5th
    round. In another regular match, Baia Mare defeated Dunărea Brăila, 27-25. Quite
    surprisingly, Gloria Buzău are at the top of the table, with 12 points in four
    games. CSM Bucharest is the runner-up team, with 10 points in four games.


    Former FCSB head-coach, Anton Petrea, on Wednesday was
    appointed at the helm of a Chindia Târgovişte. The latter team’s former
    head-coach, Adrian Mihalcea, had a mutual consent contract termination with
    Chindia’ s management this past Tuesday. After 11 rounds in the Super League, Chindia
    Târgovişte is at the bottom of the table in the rankings, with a mere 3 points and
    a no-win record.


    Romania’s national football team is in Helsinki for a Nations
    League fixture against Finland on Friday. In League B’s third group, Romanian’s
    national team is 4th-placed according to the as-it-stands table, with
    only 3 points on its record sheet. Finland is 3rd-placed, with 4
    points, Bosnia and Herzegovina are at the top of the table, with 8 points,
    followed by Montenegro, with 7. In Bosnia’s Zelnica this coming Friday, Bosnia
    and Herzegovina go against Montenegro. In Bucharest on Monday, Romania takes on
    Bosnia and Herzegovina, while in Podgorica, Montenegro plays Finland. (EN)



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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    Playing on their own turf, the Romanian national women’s volleyball side
    secured a 3-1 win against Croatia in a group A game for the preliminaries of
    the European Championship of 2023. Croatia had won the first game with the same
    score. Romania ranks first in the group’s standings with 9 points followed by
    Croatia also with 9, Israel with 3 and the Faroe Islands with zero points. The
    first two sides are qualified for the final tournament next year. Romania’s
    next game is a home one against the Faroes on September 7th while
    four days later they will be taking on Israel in an away game.




    Romania’s male water polo side lost to Montenegro 13-8 in the play-offs
    of the European Championships underway in Split, Croatia. Romania will be
    playing Israel in the semifinals in order to occupy one place between the 9th
    and 12th teams in the ranking. Our women’s side also lost to Hungary
    22-0 and will be up against Slovakia for one of the 9th and 12th
    positions.




    Romania’s swimmers have triumphantly ended the World Junior Championships
    in Lima with another gold medal. In the finals of the 50 meter freestyle race,
    Bianca Costea came first in 25 seconds and 35 hundredths. The other medalists
    were David Popovici, Vlad Stancu, Patrick Sebastian Dinu, Stefan Cozma and
    Alexandru Constantinescu.




    Romania also boasts 9 medals, five gold and four silver at the European
    Rowing Under 23 Championships held in Hazewinkel, Belgium. The medalists were
    the men’s coxed four and the women’s four, the women’s quadruple sculls, the women’s
    and men’s eights. The women’s coxed four became silver medalist in the aforementioned
    competition and so did the men’s pair, the men’s four and the women’s double
    scull.




    Now let’s have a look at the results of the 9th leg of Romania’s
    first football league. CS Mioveni has obtained a one-nil win against Sepsi Sf.
    Gheorghe, Universitatea Cluj ended in a one-all draw their game against FCU Craiova,
    and so did the game pitching UTA Arad against Chindia Targoviste. FC Voluntari
    versus Rapid Bucharest ended nil-one while Petrolul Ploiești outperformed FC
    Botoșani 2-1.


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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    Playing on their own turf, the Romanian national women’s volleyball side
    secured a 3-1 win against Croatia in a group A game for the preliminaries of
    the European Championship of 2023. Croatia had won the first game with the same
    score. Romania ranks first in the group’s standings with 9 points followed by
    Croatia also with 9, Israel with 3 and the Faroe Islands with zero points. The
    first two sides are qualified for the final tournament next year. Romania’s
    next game is a home one against the Faroes on September 7th while
    four days later they will be taking on Israel in an away game.




    Romania’s male water polo side lost to Montenegro 13-8 in the play-offs
    of the European Championships underway in Split, Croatia. Romania will be
    playing Israel in the semifinals in order to occupy one place between the 9th
    and 12th teams in the ranking. Our women’s side also lost to Hungary
    22-0 and will be up against Slovakia for one of the 9th and 12th
    positions.




    Romania’s swimmers have triumphantly ended the World Junior Championships
    in Lima with another gold medal. In the finals of the 50 meter freestyle race,
    Bianca Costea came first in 25 seconds and 35 hundredths. The other medalists
    were David Popovici, Vlad Stancu, Patrick Sebastian Dinu, Stefan Cozma and
    Alexandru Constantinescu.




    Romania also boasts 9 medals, five gold and four silver at the European
    Rowing Under 23 Championships held in Hazewinkel, Belgium. The medalists were
    the men’s coxed four and the women’s four, the women’s quadruple sculls, the women’s
    and men’s eights. The women’s coxed four became silver medalist in the aforementioned
    competition and so did the men’s pair, the men’s four and the women’s double
    scull.




    Now let’s have a look at the results of the 9th leg of Romania’s
    first football league. CS Mioveni has obtained a one-nil win against Sepsi Sf.
    Gheorghe, Universitatea Cluj ended in a one-all draw their game against FCU Craiova,
    and so did the game pitching UTA Arad against Chindia Targoviste. FC Voluntari
    versus Rapid Bucharest ended nil-one while Petrolul Ploiești outperformed FC
    Botoșani 2-1.


    (bill)

  • Medals at the European Rowing Championship

    Medals at the European Rowing Championship

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    athletes represented Romania at the European Rowing Championship held in the
    Italian city of Varese. The Romanians competed in 13 disciplines and eventually
    walked away with six medals, two gold and four silver. The Romanian women’s
    pair boat and double scull and the Romanian women’s eight stepped onto the
    podium’s first step. The Romanian women’s pair and the light women’s double
    scull, the Romanian men’s four and eight became silver medalists.




    Romania
    has ended the competition on the fourth position in the medal ranking after
    Britain, Italy and the Netherlands. The competition in Varese was somehow
    atypical as many of the teams attending were in full training campaign for the
    upcoming Olympics in Tokyo, so their objective wasn’t actually winning a medal
    but obtaining the best contest formula. For other teams, the competition in
    Varese was the final rehearsal before the Lucerne regatta in mid-May, which
    will decide the last boats qualified for the Olympics. Many Romanian teams are
    in this situation, trying to obtain a better ranking in Lucerne. Fans have
    pinned their hopes on the Romanian women’s eight, which put up a good show in
    Varese and stands good chances in Lucerne as well.




    We’ll
    wait and see which are the new changes operated by the Romanians’ opponents in
    Lucerne and how these changes are going to influence the results of the
    upcoming competition. The Romanian federation can also operate some changes but
    it is more expected to try to increase the performances of our athletes.
    Qualification for the Olympics is a must for the Romanian rowing tradition as
    our athletes have been participated in these competitions since 1952 and they
    missed only the 1956 edition in Melbourne.

    After gymnastics, rowing boasts the
    best Romanian participation in the Olympic Games with 19 gold medals, 10 silver
    and 9 bronze. And the Romanian women’s eight has been on the Olympic podium
    since 1996 with the exception of London edition in 2012. With three Olympic
    golds, three silver and three bronze, the Romanian women’s eight boasts the
    best performances of a rowing team in Romania.


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