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March 19, 2023 UPDATE

VISIT The president of Romania Klaus Iohannis, currently
on an official visit to the United Arab Emirates, Sunday travelled to Masdar
City, a model of sustainable urban development with solutions centered around
energy efficiency and environment protection. The Romanian official was presented
solutions for transport and urban cooling and ventilation, building energy
generation and optimum usage of natural light in schools and research
institutions. The solutions tested in Masdar City may be an inspiration for
other cities increasingly interested in sustainability, including in Romania. Contributions
to these solutions come, among others, from Romanian researchers as well,
affiliated to research institutes in Masdar City, the Romanian presidency said
in a news release. President Iohannis will be in the UAE until Tuesday, at the
invitation of his counterpart, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The main
goals of the visit include strengthening the political and diplomatic dialogue
on topics of mutual interest, encouraging bilateral economic relations, which
are already on a significant positive trend, and attracting investments in the
Romanian economy through projects in fields like infrastructure, energy,
climate change, cybersecurity and food security.

REFUGEES The Romanian Border Police Inspectorate General
announced that on Saturday as many as 86,342 people entered Romania using
border checkpoints around the country. Of them, 8,510 were Ukrainian nationals.
Since February 10, 2022, two weeks before the Russian invasion of their
country, nearly 3.8 million Ukrainian citizens have entered Romania. Most of them have
travelled further on to western European countries, but around 100,000 of them
have chosen to stay in Romania, according to the authorities in Bucharest.

DIPLOMACY The Romanian diplomacy chief Bogdan Aurescu takes part on
Monday in the Foreign Affairs Council, a meeting of EU foreign ministers in
Brussels. He will also attend the joint meeting of EU foreign and defence
ministers, as well as in a conference of international donors for Turkey and
Syria, in the aftermath of the February earthquakes. The Foreign Affairs
Council will focus on Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, the dialogue between
Belgrade and Pristina, the situation in Tunisia and the latest developments in
Iran. Bogdan Aurescu will plead for continuing multidimensional support for Ukraine,
both at EU level and from the member states, with a focus on the quick
provision of military equipment and training for the Ukrainian army. According
to the Romanian foreign ministry, Mr. Aurescu will also support a consolidation
of the sanctions against Russia and a more efficient implementation of current
restrictions.

MILITARY Over 3,000 troops from Romania and 12 Allied and partner
states will take part in the Sea Shield 2023 multinational exercise, the most
complex event planned and spearheaded by the Romanian Navy this year. Taking
part in the event between March 20 and April 2 are forces from Albania,
Bulgaria, France, Georgia, Greece, Poland, Portugal, UK, the Netherlands, the Republic
of Moldova, Romania, the US and Turkey. The exercise contributes to promoting
Romania’s interests and initiatives at regional and international level, as
well as to enhancing inter-operability among the participating countries. Sea
Shield, a complex concept designed for the training of NATO forces, was
proposed by Romania at NATO’s summit in Warsaw in 2016, to boost security on
the Eastern flank.

HANDBALL Romania’s women’s handball champions, Rapid Bucharest, were
defeated on Sunday by Slovenia’s Krim Ljubljana, 29-24, in the first leg of the
playoffs for the Champions’ League quarter-finals. The second leg takes place
in Bucharest. This is Rapid’s first presence in the Champions’ League, and the
match against the Slovenian champions is also the team’s first march in European
competitions with the Danish manager Kim Rasmussen, who replaced Carlos Viver (Spain).
If they qualify into the quarter-finals, Rapid will be facing Kristiansand (Norway).
Romania’s vice-champions, CSM Bucharest, have already qualified into the
quarter-finals, where they will take on the winner of the playoff between the
French side Brest and the Danish team Esbjerg. (AMP)

19 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
RRI Sports Club

The womens handball team CSM Bucharest has this week taken a big step towards winning the national championship. Coach Adrian Vasiles students beat the defending champions, Rapid Bucharest, 27-26, and went 9 points ahead of them in the ranking.

The match was quite balanced, with both team taking turns in the lead, but CSM went 4 goals ahead of Rapid in the last 10 minutes of the game. The best scorer for the winning team was Cristina Neagu, with 8 goals, while for Rapid Orlane Kanor scored 6 times. Rapid missed Sorina Grozav, one of the best players of todays generation in Romanian handball.

After this 14th leg of the championship, CSM ranks first with 40 points, followed by Gloria Bistrița, with 34 and SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea, with 32. Rapid only comes 4th, with 31 points.

This weekend, CSM and Rapid are playing in the Champions League, and SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea in the EHF European League. On Saturday Rapid are taking on Group B leaders Metz in France. This is a critical game for the Romanian champions, as a win would secure their place in the quarter-finals. Metz is currently top of the table with 21 points, followed by 3 teams with 18 points: Győr (Hungary), Esbjerg (Denmark), and Rapid.

In Group A, CSM play at home on Sunday against another French team: Brest Bretagne. Romanias vice-champions are already qualified into the quarter-finals and top the group with 21 points. Next come Vipers Kristiansand (Norway), with 19 points.

In EHF European League, SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea play at home on Saturday against Thüringer. The German team is currently the leader of Group D, with 6 points in 3 matches. Vâlcea comes second with 2 points, followed by Paris 92 (France), and Vác (Hungary). (AMP)

1 February 2023
RRI Sports Club

The womens handball team CSM Bucharest has this week taken a big step towards winning the national championship. Coach Adrian Vasiles students beat the defending champions, Rapid Bucharest, 27-26, and went 9 points ahead of them in the ranking.

The match was quite balanced, with both team taking turns in the lead, but CSM went 4 goals ahead of Rapid in the last 10 minutes of the game. The best scorer for the winning team was Cristina Neagu, with 8 goals, while for Rapid Orlane Kanor scored 6 times. Rapid missed Sorina Grozav, one of the best players of todays generation in Romanian handball.

After this 14th leg of the championship, CSM ranks first with 40 points, followed by Gloria Bistrița, with 34 and SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea, with 32. Rapid only comes 4th, with 31 points.

This weekend, CSM and Rapid are playing in the Champions League, and SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea in the EHF European League. On Saturday Rapid are taking on Group B leaders Metz in France. This is a critical game for the Romanian champions, as a win would secure their place in the quarter-finals. Metz is currently top of the table with 21 points, followed by 3 teams with 18 points: Győr (Hungary), Esbjerg (Denmark), and Rapid.

In Group A, CSM play at home on Sunday against another French team: Brest Bretagne. Romanias vice-champions are already qualified into the quarter-finals and top the group with 21 points. Next come Vipers Kristiansand (Norway), with 19 points.

In EHF European League, SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea play at home on Saturday against Thüringer. The German team is currently the leader of Group D, with 6 points in 3 matches. Vâlcea comes second with 2 points, followed by Paris 92 (France), and Vác (Hungary). (AMP)

1 February 2023
Sports Roundup

The
Romanian athlete Andreea Grecu won the silver medal in the women’s monobob
event at the IBSF European Championships held in Altenberg, Germany. She finished
the race in 2’02”45, and was outperformed by Germany’s Laura Nolte, with
2’01”13. In the World Cup ranking in Altenberg, the first place went to
Kaillie Humphries, of the US, with 2’00”61, with Grecu coming in 6th.

The
Romanian women’s handball side CSM Bucharest qualified into the Champions’
League quarter-finals. Two legs prior to the end of the group stage, the
Romanian vice-champions are top of Group A with 21 points. Second comes the
Norwegian team Vipers Kristiansand, with 19 points. The two sides have secured
a place in the quarter-finals, given that the 3rd-ranking team, Odense
(Denmark) only have 14 points. On Sunday, CSM defeated the German team Bietigheim
27 – 25 away from home. Malin Larsen Aune (Norway) was the Romania side’s best
scorer, with 6 goals. Cristina Neagu scored 5 times and went over the threshold
of 1,000 goals in the Champions’ League.

In Group B
of the same competition, Rapid Bucharest defeated Turkey’s champions,
Kastamonu, 28 – 22. The Dutch Estavana Polman scored 6 times for the Romanian
team, followed by Eliza Buceschi with 5 goals. Top of the group is the French
side Metz, with 21 points, followed by 3 teams with 18 points each: Győr (Hungary),
Esbjerg (Denmark) and Rapid. The top 2 teams in each group will go straight
into the quarter-finals, with the teams on the 3rd, 4th,
5th and 6th places moving into the playoffs.

In the EHF
European League, SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea lost to Thüringer, in Germany, 31 – 38. The
German side tops Group D, with 6 points in 3 matches. Vâlcea comes 2nd
with 2 points, and so do 2 other teams, Paris 92 (France) and Vác (Hungary).

We wrap up
with news from football. In the 22nd leg of the Romanian Super
League, Universitatea Cluj Friday beat FC Voluntari 2-1, and Rapid Bucharest
defeated Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe 3-0. On Saturday, CS Mioveni won at home against
Petrolul Ploieşti 1-0, and FC Botoşani defeated Universitatea Craiova 1-0 at
home. On Sunday, FC U Craiova drew at home against UTA Arad (1-1), and FCSB won
1-0 against Hermannstadt in Sibiu. Before this leg, Farul Constanta was first
placed in the ranking, with 45 points, followed by CFR Cluj with 44. (AMP)

23 January 2023
Sports Roundup

The
Romanian athlete Andreea Grecu won the silver medal in the women’s monobob
event at the IBSF European Championships held in Altenberg, Germany. She finished
the race in 2’02”45, and was outperformed by Germany’s Laura Nolte, with
2’01”13. In the World Cup ranking in Altenberg, the first place went to
Kaillie Humphries, of the US, with 2’00”61, with Grecu coming in 6th.

The
Romanian women’s handball side CSM Bucharest qualified into the Champions’
League quarter-finals. Two legs prior to the end of the group stage, the
Romanian vice-champions are top of Group A with 21 points. Second comes the
Norwegian team Vipers Kristiansand, with 19 points. The two sides have secured
a place in the quarter-finals, given that the 3rd-ranking team, Odense
(Denmark) only have 14 points. On Sunday, CSM defeated the German team Bietigheim
27 – 25 away from home. Malin Larsen Aune (Norway) was the Romania side’s best
scorer, with 6 goals. Cristina Neagu scored 5 times and went over the threshold
of 1,000 goals in the Champions’ League.

In Group B
of the same competition, Rapid Bucharest defeated Turkey’s champions,
Kastamonu, 28 – 22. The Dutch Estavana Polman scored 6 times for the Romanian
team, followed by Eliza Buceschi with 5 goals. Top of the group is the French
side Metz, with 21 points, followed by 3 teams with 18 points each: Győr (Hungary),
Esbjerg (Denmark) and Rapid. The top 2 teams in each group will go straight
into the quarter-finals, with the teams on the 3rd, 4th,
5th and 6th places moving into the playoffs.

In the EHF
European League, SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea lost to Thüringer, in Germany, 31 – 38. The
German side tops Group D, with 6 points in 3 matches. Vâlcea comes 2nd
with 2 points, and so do 2 other teams, Paris 92 (France) and Vác (Hungary).

We wrap up
with news from football. In the 22nd leg of the Romanian Super
League, Universitatea Cluj Friday beat FC Voluntari 2-1, and Rapid Bucharest
defeated Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe 3-0. On Saturday, CS Mioveni won at home against
Petrolul Ploieşti 1-0, and FC Botoşani defeated Universitatea Craiova 1-0 at
home. On Sunday, FC U Craiova drew at home against UTA Arad (1-1), and FCSB won
1-0 against Hermannstadt in Sibiu. Before this leg, Farul Constanta was first
placed in the ranking, with 45 points, followed by CFR Cluj with 44. (AMP)

23 January 2023
Sports roundup

Romanian athlete Gabriel Burtănete came fourth in the vault finals of the World Gymnastics Championships held in Liverpool. The Romanian lost the podium by a margin of two tenths but in the all round finals he qualified for he ranked only 23rd. The only Romanian female athlete to qualify for the individual all round, Ana Maria Barbosu, ranked 20th.

The Romanian womens handball side lost their first game in the European Championships 28-29 to the Netherlands in Skopje, on Saturday. France had secured a 24-14 win against North Macedonia in the same group C. Two games are due on Monday when North Macedonia takes on the Netherlands while Romania will be up against France. The first three sides in the group will qualify for the competitions next stage.

Romanias rugby selection secured a 30-23 win in a test-match against Chile in Bucharest on Saturday. Atila Septar, Marius Simionescu and Kamil Sobota scored tries for the Romanian side. Two were converted by Tudor Boldor and one by Vladut Popa. Boldor and Popa also converted three penalty shots. The match on Saturday was the first for the Romanian side in their autumn training campaign, which also includes home games against Uruguay on Sunday, November 13th, and Samoa six days later.

Last weekend saw the matches counting towards the 17th leg of Romanias Football Superleague. On Friday FC Voluntari secured a one-nil win against Botosani while Farul Constanta on their own turf outperformed FC Mioveni 2-1. On Saturday, Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe trounced FC Arges on the latters own turf, 5-0. Petrolul obtained a 2-1 home win against UTA Arad and Universitatea Craiova clinched a 1-0 home win against Universitatea Cluj. On Sunday in Medias, Chindia Târgovişte obtained 1-0 win against Hermannstadt, while on the National Arena in Bucharest, FCSB managed a 3-1 win against Rapid. Farul ranks first in the standings with 40 points followed by Rapid Bucharest.

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7 November 2022
Sports roundup

Romanian athlete Gabriel Burtănete came fourth in the vault finals of the World Gymnastics Championships held in Liverpool. The Romanian lost the podium by a margin of two tenths but in the all round finals he qualified for he ranked only 23rd. The only Romanian female athlete to qualify for the individual all round, Ana Maria Barbosu, ranked 20th.

The Romanian womens handball side lost their first game in the European Championships 28-29 to the Netherlands in Skopje, on Saturday. France had secured a 24-14 win against North Macedonia in the same group C. Two games are due on Monday when North Macedonia takes on the Netherlands while Romania will be up against France. The first three sides in the group will qualify for the competitions next stage.

Romanias rugby selection secured a 30-23 win in a test-match against Chile in Bucharest on Saturday. Atila Septar, Marius Simionescu and Kamil Sobota scored tries for the Romanian side. Two were converted by Tudor Boldor and one by Vladut Popa. Boldor and Popa also converted three penalty shots. The match on Saturday was the first for the Romanian side in their autumn training campaign, which also includes home games against Uruguay on Sunday, November 13th, and Samoa six days later.

Last weekend saw the matches counting towards the 17th leg of Romanias Football Superleague. On Friday FC Voluntari secured a one-nil win against Botosani while Farul Constanta on their own turf outperformed FC Mioveni 2-1. On Saturday, Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe trounced FC Arges on the latters own turf, 5-0. Petrolul obtained a 2-1 home win against UTA Arad and Universitatea Craiova clinched a 1-0 home win against Universitatea Cluj. On Sunday in Medias, Chindia Târgovişte obtained 1-0 win against Hermannstadt, while on the National Arena in Bucharest, FCSB managed a 3-1 win against Rapid. Farul ranks first in the standings with 40 points followed by Rapid Bucharest.

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7 November 2022
October 23, 2022 UPDATE

NATO Spain is going
to send F-18 and Eurofighter jets to Romania and Bulgaria, to help strengthen
NATO’s eastern flank in the context of the war in Ukraine. According to Radio
Romania’s correspondent in Madrid, the aircraft, pilots and relevant auxiliary
and maintenance personnel will reach the Feteşti air base in the south of
Romania on December 1, and will be stationed there until the end of March 2023.
Currently stationed in Zaragoza, they will monitor air space in the region and
take part in training missions. This is Spain’s response to the Allied request
for an enhanced contribution to NATO’s prevention capability, the Spanish
defence ministry said, and added that Spain has already installed a long-range
air surveillance radar in Schitu, Constanţa County, operational since October
17 and serviced by 38 troops.

BORDER Romania’s
border police announced that over 97,000 people entered Romania on Saturday, of
whom more than 9,500 were Ukrainian nationals, up 15.6% since the previous day.
According to current data, over 2.6 million Ukrainian citizens have entered
Romania since February 10, and nearly 4,400 of them have applied for asylum
here.

NRRP Romania is
set to receive EUR 2.6 bln in the coming days under the National Recovery and
Resilience Plan, to be channelled into the country’s economic recovery. The
funds are transferred after the European Commission authorised the payment of
the first instalments of the non-reimbursable aid and loan components. Romania submitted
the first payment request in May, after meeting the targets and benchmarks for
the 4th quarter of 2021. In September, the European Commission’s assessment of
these targets was approved and submitted to the Economic and Financial
Committee, which also approved it. The Romanian minister for investment and
European projects Marcel Boloş believes this is just the beginning of a long
road, which, if successfully completed, will translate into investments in
motorways, railways, schools and hospitals. The next payment request will
amount to EUR 3.2 bln, for which over 50 targets will have to be met, related
to the first half of this year. Romania may access a total of nearly EUR 30 bln
under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, of which it has already
received 2 pre-financing instalments amounting to a rough EUR 3.8 bln.

COAL Romania has
increased its coal output to mitigate the energy crunch. The amounts extracted
in the first 8 months of the year went up 1.7% and imports rose by 13.5%, the
National Statistics Institute reports. The National Strategy and Forecast
Commission estimates for this year a coal output 10% higher than in 2021 and a
2.8% rise in imports. For 2023, the Commission forecasts an 8% increase in
output.

CHINA The Chinese
president Xi Jinping was re-elected on Sunday as leader of the ruling Communist
Party, thus becoming China’s strongest leader since Mao Zedong, the founder of
the Chinese communist regime, international news agencies report. Xi Jinping was
appointed for a 3rd five-year term in office by a largely reshuffled Central
Committee, and is very likely to be re-elected president as well in March. ‘China cannot develop without the world, and the world also
needs China,’ he said, and praised what he called the two miracles achieved
by his country-rapid economic development and long-term social stability. Xi
Jinping appointed many of his close allies in the Standing Committee, a 7-member
group in power in China. The all-powerful Politburo includes no women among its
members for the first time in 25 years.

HANDBALL The
Romanian women’s handball champions, Rapid Bucharest, Sunday defeated Storhamar Handball Elite,
of Norway, 27-25, in a home match in Champions’ League Group B. Rapid remain
undefeated after 6 matches in Group B. Their next game is scheduled on December
3, away from home, against handball powerhouse Gyori Audi ETO KC. (AMP)

23 October 2022
October 23, 2022

MILITARY The
first shipment of French military equipment to join the NATO battle group deployed
to Cincu, in central Romania, reaches the country on Sunday, the defence
ministry announced. A second convoy, comprising a Leclerc main battle tank
company, is set to arrive in November. The NATO Battle Group Forward Presence
in Romania (BGFP) was created in May by transforming the Allied multinational
elements of the NATO Response Force deployed to our country. Upon France’s
proposal to take over the framework-nation role, the French battalion deployed
to Romania, considered the Spearhead of the Very High Readiness Joint Task
Force (VJTF), built up the BGFP on our national territory by integrating, on
rotational basis, Belgian and Dutch troops. BGFP contributes to the increase of
the Romanian military cooperation with France and, implicitly, to the consolidation
of the Euro-Atlantic space security on the Eastern Flank. Cooperation with the
strategic partners and the deployment of relevant combat structures on national
territory contribute to the increase of defence and deterrence capacity in the
context of the Ukraine war and the Black Sea region crisis, the defence
ministry explains.

BORDER Romania’s
border police announced that over 97,000 people entered Romania on Saturday, of
whom more than 9,500 were Ukrainian nationals, up 15.6% since the previous day.
According to current data, over 2.6 million Ukrainian citizens have entered
Romania since February 10, and nearly 4,400 of them have applied for asylum
here.

NRRP Romania is
set to receive EUR 2.6 bln in the coming days under the National Recovery and
Resilience Plan, to be channelled into the country’s economic recovery. The
funds are transferred after the European Commission authorised the payment of
the first instalments of the non-reimbursable aid and loan components. Romania submitted
the first payment request in May, after meeting the targets and benchmarks for
the 4th quarter of 2021. In September, the European Commission’s assessment of
these targets was approved and submitted to the Economic and Financial
Committee, which also approved it. The Romanian minister for investment and
European projects Marcel Boloş believes this is just the beginning of a long
road, which, if successfully completed, will translate into investments in
motorways, railways, schools and hospitals. The next payment request will
amount to EUR 3.2 bln, for which over 50 targets will have to be met, related
to the first half of this year. Romania may access a total of nearly EUR 30 bln
under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, of which it has already
received 2 pre-financing instalments amounting to a rough EUR 3.8 bln.

COAL Romania has
increased its coal output to mitigate the energy crunch. The amounts extracted
in the first 8 months of the year went up 1.7% and imports rose by 13.5%, the
National Statistics Institute reports. The National Strategy and Forecast
Commission estimates for this year a coal output 10% higher than in 2021 and a
2.8% rise in imports. For 2023, the Commission forecasts an 8% increase in
output.

CHINA The Chinese
president Xi Jinping was re-elected on Sunday as leader of the ruling Communist
Party, thus becoming China’s strongest leader since Mao Zedong, the founder of
the Chinese communist regime, international news agencies report. Xi Jinping was
appointed for a 3rd five-year term in office by a largely reshuffled Central
Committee, and is very likely to be re-elected president as well in March. ‘China cannot develop without the world, and the world also
needs China,’ he said, and praised what he called the two miracles achieved
by his country-rapid economic development and long-term social stability. Xi
Jinping appointed many of his close allies in the Standing Committee, a 7-member
group in power in China. The all-powerful Politburo includes no women among its
members for the first time in 25 years.

HANDBALL The
Romanian women’s handball champions, Rapid Bucharest, play at home today
against Storhamar, of Norway, in a Champions’ League Group B match. Rapid is
3rd in the ranking, after the Hungarian side Gyor and the French side Metz. On Saturday, vice-champions CSM Bucharest
lost their first game in the group, away from home, to defending champions
Vipers Kristiansand of Norway, 35-29. CSM ranks 3rd in Group A, after the
German side Bietigheim and Kristiansand. (AMP)

23 October 2022
Sports Roundup

Romanian tennis player Irina Begu on Sunday won the
WTA 125 tournament in Bucharest, a competition with 115 thousand dollars in
prize money. The Romanian obtained a two-set win 6-3, 6-3 against the Hungarian
challenger Reka-Luca Jani. The second-seeded Romanian, who is 41st
in the WTA ranking, obtained the victory in two hours. The Hungarian challenger
put up a balanced show in both sets but the Romanian eventually won her second
WTA tournament after the one in Palermo in July.

Romania played Slovakia in an away Davis Cup
competition this weekend. The hosts eventually obtained a 3-1 win in the World
Group. The only Romanian win belonged to 19 year old player Nicholas David
Ionel, 283rd in the ATP ranking. On Friday he secured a 6-7, 7-5, 6-4
win against Norbert Gombos. The other games were won by Slovakia, which has
thus qualified for the competition’s next stage.

In the Champions League, Romanian women’s handball side
CSM Bucharest secured a 33-26 away win against Brest-Bretagne of France. The
most effective Romanian player was Elizabeth Omoregie with 6 goals scored.
After two legs, German side Bietigheim ranks first in the group, followed by Vipers
Kristiansand of Norway and CSM Bucharest each with four points. Our handballers
will next be playing the German side in Bucharest on Sunday.

In group B, in Bucharest, Romania’s champions Rapid
ended in a 32-all draw their match against French champions Metz. Elisa
Buceschi and Lorena Ostase proved to be the best Romanian scorers, each with five
goals. Hungarian side Gyor tops the table with four points, followed by Metz
and Rapid each with three. Rapid will be playing Kastamonu in Turkey on Sunday.

Last weekend saw the matches of the 11th
leg of Romania’s Football Superleague. On Friday, FC Voluntari secured a 1-0
home win against FCU Craiova, while in Ploiesti, southern Romania, Farul
Constanta obtained a 3-1 win against local side Petrolul. On Saturday,
Hermanstadt defeated UTA, in Arad, western Romania, while in Sfantu Gheorghe,
local side Sepsi trounced FC Botosani 7-0. Rapid, on their own turf, clinched a
2-1 win against FC Mioveni. On Sunday in Medias, Universitatea Cluj outperformed
Chindia Târgoviște 1-0, while in Craiova, southern Romania, local side Universitatea
defeated FCSB 2-1. Farul and Rapid are topping the table each with 24 points,
followed by Hermannstadt with 22.

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19 September 2022
Sports Roundup

Romanian tennis player Irina Begu on Sunday won the
WTA 125 tournament in Bucharest, a competition with 115 thousand dollars in
prize money. The Romanian obtained a two-set win 6-3, 6-3 against the Hungarian
challenger Reka-Luca Jani. The second-seeded Romanian, who is 41st
in the WTA ranking, obtained the victory in two hours. The Hungarian challenger
put up a balanced show in both sets but the Romanian eventually won her second
WTA tournament after the one in Palermo in July.

Romania played Slovakia in an away Davis Cup
competition this weekend. The hosts eventually obtained a 3-1 win in the World
Group. The only Romanian win belonged to 19 year old player Nicholas David
Ionel, 283rd in the ATP ranking. On Friday he secured a 6-7, 7-5, 6-4
win against Norbert Gombos. The other games were won by Slovakia, which has
thus qualified for the competition’s next stage.

In the Champions League, Romanian women’s handball side
CSM Bucharest secured a 33-26 away win against Brest-Bretagne of France. The
most effective Romanian player was Elizabeth Omoregie with 6 goals scored.
After two legs, German side Bietigheim ranks first in the group, followed by Vipers
Kristiansand of Norway and CSM Bucharest each with four points. Our handballers
will next be playing the German side in Bucharest on Sunday.

In group B, in Bucharest, Romania’s champions Rapid
ended in a 32-all draw their match against French champions Metz. Elisa
Buceschi and Lorena Ostase proved to be the best Romanian scorers, each with five
goals. Hungarian side Gyor tops the table with four points, followed by Metz
and Rapid each with three. Rapid will be playing Kastamonu in Turkey on Sunday.

Last weekend saw the matches of the 11th
leg of Romania’s Football Superleague. On Friday, FC Voluntari secured a 1-0
home win against FCU Craiova, while in Ploiesti, southern Romania, Farul
Constanta obtained a 3-1 win against local side Petrolul. On Saturday,
Hermanstadt defeated UTA, in Arad, western Romania, while in Sfantu Gheorghe,
local side Sepsi trounced FC Botosani 7-0. Rapid, on their own turf, clinched a
2-1 win against FC Mioveni. On Sunday in Medias, Universitatea Cluj outperformed
Chindia Târgoviște 1-0, while in Craiova, southern Romania, local side Universitatea
defeated FCSB 2-1. Farul and Rapid are topping the table each with 24 points,
followed by Hermannstadt with 22.

(bill)

19 September 2022
Sports Roundup

Andrei Paul Arădoaie won the bronze
in the 86-kilo category of the European Boxing Championships concluded this
weekend in Yerevan, Armenia. This is the first medal for a Romanian fighter in
a European senior competition since 2015. The other 2 Romanians who took part
in the championships in Yerevan, Emanuel Constantin Mican, in the 92-kilo category
and Răzvan Cristian Filip, in the 92+ kilo category, had left the competition
from the first round.

In the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup
held over the weekend in Poznan, Poland, the Romanian canoeist Cătălin Chirilă won
2 silver medals on Sunday, in the 500m and 1,000 m races. He also came out 4th
in the 5,000m final. In the women’s competition, Mălina Trifescu failed to
qualify in the 500m and 200m kayaking finals.

Rapid Bucharest is Romania’s new
women’s handball champion. In the last leg of the National League, Rapid won
away from home, 35 to 27 against SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea. The vice-champions are CSM
Bucharest, who came only 1 point behind Rapid in the final rankings.

The national football championship
also came to a close on Sunday, with the second leg of the playoff round that
decided who stays and who qualifies into League 1. Chindia Târgovişte will
continue to play in League One, after defeating Concordia Chiajna in Ploieşti, 4-1
in the penalty shootouts. In the first round, Concordia had won 2-1. Universitatea
Cluj is the team that will move up to Romania’s top football league next season,
after a draw against Dinamo Bucharest and 2-0 in the first leg of the playoffs.
They will join Petrolul Ploieşti and FC Hermannstadt, who have also been promoted
to League One. Dinamo is relegated to the second league for the first time
since the club was set up in 1948.

For the 5th consecutive
time and for the 8th time in their history, CFR Cluj are Romania’s
football champions and they will play in the Champions’ League qualifiers. In turn,
the 2nd and 3rd runners-up, FCSB and Universitatea
Craiova, will play in the qualifiers of the Europa Conference League, along
with Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe, the winner of the Romanian football cup. Romania’s
Super Cup is scheduled for July 9. (AMP)

30 May 2022
Sports Roundup

Andrei Paul Arădoaie won the bronze
in the 86-kilo category of the European Boxing Championships concluded this
weekend in Yerevan, Armenia. This is the first medal for a Romanian fighter in
a European senior competition since 2015. The other 2 Romanians who took part
in the championships in Yerevan, Emanuel Constantin Mican, in the 92-kilo category
and Răzvan Cristian Filip, in the 92+ kilo category, had left the competition
from the first round.

In the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup
held over the weekend in Poznan, Poland, the Romanian canoeist Cătălin Chirilă won
2 silver medals on Sunday, in the 500m and 1,000 m races. He also came out 4th
in the 5,000m final. In the women’s competition, Mălina Trifescu failed to
qualify in the 500m and 200m kayaking finals.

Rapid Bucharest is Romania’s new
women’s handball champion. In the last leg of the National League, Rapid won
away from home, 35 to 27 against SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea. The vice-champions are CSM
Bucharest, who came only 1 point behind Rapid in the final rankings.

The national football championship
also came to a close on Sunday, with the second leg of the playoff round that
decided who stays and who qualifies into League 1. Chindia Târgovişte will
continue to play in League One, after defeating Concordia Chiajna in Ploieşti, 4-1
in the penalty shootouts. In the first round, Concordia had won 2-1. Universitatea
Cluj is the team that will move up to Romania’s top football league next season,
after a draw against Dinamo Bucharest and 2-0 in the first leg of the playoffs.
They will join Petrolul Ploieşti and FC Hermannstadt, who have also been promoted
to League One. Dinamo is relegated to the second league for the first time
since the club was set up in 1948.

For the 5th consecutive
time and for the 8th time in their history, CFR Cluj are Romania’s
football champions and they will play in the Champions’ League qualifiers. In turn,
the 2nd and 3rd runners-up, FCSB and Universitatea
Craiova, will play in the qualifiers of the Europa Conference League, along
with Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe, the winner of the Romanian football cup. Romania’s
Super Cup is scheduled for July 9. (AMP)

30 May 2022
Info Sport

Miercuri a avut loc ultimul derby al anului
2021 din fotbalul românesc. În Liga Întâi, etapa a 20-a, s-au întâlnit echipele
bucureştene FCSB, fostă Steaua, şi Rapid, în episodul cu numărul 136 al
confruntării istorice dintre cele două grupări. S-a impus FCSB, cu 3 la 1, după
o partidă echilibrată.

La meci, pe Arena Naţională din Bucureşti,
cel mai mare stadion din România, au asistat aproape 30 de mii de spectatori,
în limitele stabilite de autorităţi din cauza pandemiei. Atmosfera a fost
fierbinte pe toată durata întâlnirii. După primele secvenţe ale partidei,
arbitrul a fost obligat să oprească jocul mai multe minute din cauza petardelor
şi fumigenelor aruncate din tribune, din zonele ocupate de suporterii ambelor formaţii.
Situaţia s-a calmat însă şi echipele şi-au putut vedea de joc. FCSB a dominat
prima parte a întâlnirii şi a deschis scorul în minutul 14, prin Florin Tănase.
Rapid a echilibrat apoi situaţia şi, în prelungirile primei reprize, a
beneficiat de un penalty, acordat pentru un fault al muntenegreanului Risto
Radunovic asupra lui Cristian Săpunaru. În repriza a doua, echilibrul s-a
menţinut până în minutul 76, când brazilianul Junior Morais a primit al doilea
cartonaş galben, a fost eliminat, iar Rapid a rămas în inferioritate numerică.
FCSB a atacat apoi în valuri şi, în al treilea minut al prelungirilor, a primit
o lovitură de la 11 metri în urma unui fault comis de Săpunaru asupra lui Ianis
Stoica. A executat Florin Tănase şi scorul a devenit 2 la 1. După reluarea
jocului, rapidiştii s-au aruncat în atac cu toată echipa, iar FCSB a profitat
de spaţiile create şi a mai înscris o dată, prin Ianis Stoica, stabilind scorul
final – 3 la 1.

Să
mai notăm că, tot miercuri, în cadrul etapei a 20-a, FC Botoşani a trecut,
acasă, de Gaz Metan Mediaş cu 2 la 1, iar la Piteşti, FC Argeş şi Sepsi Sfântu
Gheorghe au terminat egal, 1 la 1. Ambele meciuri de marţi, respectiv Academica
din Clinceni cu FC Voluntari şi Universitatea Craiova cu UTA Arad, s-au încheiat
cu scorul de 0 la 0. Joi, ultimele trei partide ale etapei: Chindia Târgovişte
cu FC U Craiova, CS Mioveni cu Dinamo Bucureşti şi Farul Constanţa cu CFR Cluj.
În clasament continuă să conducă CFR, cu 51 de puncte. Urmează FCSB, cu 46.

16 December 2021