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  • Sports Flash

    Sports Flash

    Romanian swimmer David Popovici, former European and world champion, on Wednesday won the 200 meter free-style race of the Mare Nostrum competition in Barcelona.

    The Romanian ended the race in one minute, 44 seconds and 74 hundredths, a new record of the competition. The result also represents Popovici’s personal record this year. The Romanian ended the race almost one second ahead the South-Korean runner-up Sun-woo Hwang, the world champion of this race.

    David Popovici is Romania’s greatest hope at the Olympic Games in Paris. His last verification before the summer Olympics will be at the European Championships in Belgrade in June.

    Bangkok in Thailand, is hosting until Sunday the last pre-Olympic boxing tournament before Paris. On Tuesday, Romanian boxer Robert Jitaru conceded defeat to US challenger Emilio Garcia on points in the second round of the 63.5 kilogram category.

    In the first round match, Jitaru clinched a TKO win against Jinxiang Pan of China.

    The event is also being attended by several Romanian pugilists in both the male and female competitions. Romania so far boasts only one athlete qualified for the boxing competitions of the Olympics in Paris, Lacramioara Perjoc in the 54 kilogram category.

    Dinamo Bucharest has ended with a win the championship of the National Handball League. This male team coached by Spanish Xavi Pascual on Wednesday secured a 37-21 home win against CSM Bucharest in the season’s last match.

    Dinamo has ended the championship unbeaten with 24 wins and two draws. This is their 20th title of champions in men’s handball.

    Romania’s national football side is training in Mogosoaia, close to Bucharest for the European Football Championship in Germany. Next week, our footballers will be playing two friendlies, one against Bulgaria on Tuesday and another one against Lichtenstein on Friday. Romania’s first match at the European championships will be against Ukraine on June 17th.

    (bill)

  • The Athlete of the week: Swimmer Robert Glinţǎ

    The Athlete of the week: Swimmer Robert Glinţǎ

    Last week brought a new medal to Romanian swimming. Robert Glinţǎ won the bronze medal at the European Short Course Swimming Championships hosted by Glasgow, the UK. For his performance, Radio Romania International has designated Robert Glinţǎ the Athlete of the Week.



    Robert Glinţǎ came on 3rd place, on Friday, in the Men 100m Backstroke Heat. He had got into the semifinals with an exceptional time: 50 seconds and 13 hundredths. In the final, he obtained a poorer time by 17 hundredths, but that was enough to bring him the bronze medal. First came the Russian Kliment Kolesnikov with 49 seconds and 9 hundredths and second came the German Christian Diener, with 49 seconds and 94 hundredths. On Sunday in the 50m backstroke heat final, Glinţǎ was only 12 hundredths of a second away from a new medal, being outrun by the Irish Shane Ryan. The first and second places were also taken by Kolesnikov and Diener.


    For Robert Glinţǎ the bronze medal obtained in Glasgow is the 3rd one that he obtained in a continental competition. His record also includes a bronze medal at the 2017 European Short Course Championships in Copenhagen, also in the 100m backstroke heat and a silver medal at the 2018 European Championships also hosted by Glasgow in the 50m backstroke heat.


    Robert Glinţǎ was born on April 18, 1997 in Pitesti. He started practicing various sports as a child. He began with karate and then he took up swimming. He has broken tens of national records both in the children, under – 21 and senior competitions. He was the only Romanian swimmer who reached the finals of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, when his best result was the 8th place in the 100m backstroke heat, with 53 seconds and 50 hundredths.


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