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  • Radio Romania International Sports club

    Radio Romania International Sports club


    The year 2023 was an auspicious one for Romanian sports as compared to the latter period, mainly in certain sports disciplines. Exceptional results were reported for rowing. As for gymnastics and football, we have secured our comeback in the world’s great competitions.



    As usual, the end of the year brings with it the most prominent performers’ rankings, compiled by the sports federations and clubs.



    At the Romanian Rowing Federation, the best athlete title went to Simona Radis, world and European champion in the double sculls event, as well as European champion in the coxed eight event. Radis was also nominated the best member of Steaua Bucharest Army Sports Club.



    Dinamo Bucharest’s top-flight athletes are also award-winning rowers. They are Mădălina Bereş, Amalia Bereş and Maria Lehaci Tivodariu. The four had identical results in 2023: They won two gold medals each at the European Championships in Bled. Also, they won one gold medal and one silver medal each at the World Championships in Belgrade.



    For the second year in a row, Cătălin Chirilă has been designated the Romanian Kayak-Canoe Federation’s best athlete. In 2023, Catalin won one gold and one silver medal at the World Championships in Duisburg. It was also in Duisburg that Chirila secured his ticket for the Olympics. Also, Catalin Chirila won a silver medal at the European Games in Poland.



    The Roman Gymnastics Federation’s Executive Committee has designated the year’s best gymnasts. They are Sabrina Maneca Voinea, Andrei Muntean and David Gavrilovici Sabrina Maneca Voinea won bronze in the floor event as part of the European Championships in Antalya. Sabina came in 4th in the vault event, also securing her qualification to the 2024 edition of the Olympics. In artistic gymnastics, Andrei Muntean has qualified to the Olympic Games in Paris. In aerobic gymnastics, David Gavrilovici scooped the Shooting Star award as part of the European Championships in Antalya. Gavrilovici’s record back then was made of three gold medals, in trio, aerobic dance and in the teams’ event.




  • Athletes of the week

    Athletes of the week

    13 Romanian crews with 34 rowers proved their mettle in the World Rowing Championships in Belgrade, Serbia. The Romanian delegation came in 4th according to the final medal rankings. The Netherlands, Great Britain and Italy came in 1st, 2nd and 3rd, respectively. The Romanian delegation walked away with five medals. Two were gold, won by Ancuța Bodnar and Simona Radiș in womens pair and the coxed eight crew, another medal was silver, won by the womens quadruple sculls crew la while two other medals were bronze, won by womens double sculls crew and lightweight womens pair crew, 11 Romanian crews have qualified to the Paris Olympics of 2024.



    Defending Olympic champions Ancuţa Bodnar and Simona Radis won the first gold medal on Sunday, in the womens pair event. Bodnar and radis had no problem winning the race with more than a boats length, clocking 6 minutes, 46 seconds and 94 hundredths of a second. Second came in Donata Karaliene and Dovile Rimkute of Lithuania, while bronze was won by Kristina Wagner and Sophia Vitas of the USA, Thanks to their performance and for the manner in which they won the race, Ancuţa Bodnar and Simona Radis have been designated the Athletes of the week by Radio Romania International.



    25-year-old Ancuța Bodnar is signed up by Dinamo Bucharest sports club, while 24-year-old Simona Radiș is signed up by Steaua Bucharest sports club. Ancuta and Simona have paired up in the womens pair boat since 2019. The same year, Bodnar and Radis won silver in the European Championships held in Switzerlands Lucerne. The two won another silver medal in September, also in 2019, in the World Championships held in Linz, Austria. Two European titles followed the first one in Polands Poznan, in 2020 and the second one in Varese, Italy, in 2021. In the Tokyo Olympics, also in 2021, Bodnar and Radis won the Romanian delegations only Olympic medal. The two won yet another European title in 2022, in Munich, Germany and a world title, in Racice, the Czech Republic, In May, 2023, Ancuţa Bodnar and Simona Radis became European champions in Bled, Slovenia.


  • September 25, 2022 UPDATE

    September 25, 2022 UPDATE

    GRAIN 211 ships carrying 4.7 million tons of agricultural products have
    so far left Ukraine under an agreement brokered by the United Nations and
    Turkey to unblock Ukrainian sea ports, the ministry of infrastructure in
    Ukraine has announced. The agreement signed on July 22nd in Istanbul
    provides for setting up safe corridors for the transport of Ukrainian grain.
    Ukraine’s grain exports slumped after the Russian invasion in late February and
    the blockade on the country’s Black Sea ports, driving up global food prices
    and prompting fears of shortages in Africa and the Middle East. Ukraine, a
    major grain producer and exporter, used to have monthly grain shipments up to 6
    million tons before the war. After the Russian invasion, Ukraine had to shift
    to the road and river transport infrastructures to ship its grain to Eastern
    Europe, but the quantities exported have been significantly lower due to some
    logistic shortcomings.

    MEDALS Romanian rowers walked away with four gold medals from the World
    Championships in Racice, the Czech Republic. The winners are the lightweight
    single women’s scull, the men’s double scull, the women’s double scull and the
    women’s eight. The Romanian delegation participated with 11 boats and managed
    to qualify in nine finals. In the medals’ standings Britain ranks first
    followed by Italy and Romania. At the previous edition of the aforementioned
    competition in Ottensheim, Austria, the Romanian men’s four and women’s double
    sculls obtained two silver medals.










    VISIT Over September 26-28, Romania’s Prime Minister, Nicolae
    Ciuca is paying a visit to Tokyo to participate in the state funeral staged in
    the honor of the country’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. According to a
    government communiqué, the former Japanese Prime Minister made a significant
    contribution to lifting the bilateral relations between the two countries to
    the degree of a strategic partnership during the visit he paid to Bucharest in
    2018, being the first Japanese Prime Minister to have visited Romania. Japan
    is one of Romania’s main partners in Asia both at political and economic level
    and there are all the prerequisites to transform this bilateral relation spanning
    more than one century into a privileged relation at the level of strategic
    partnership, Prime Minister Ciuca has said. On the sidelines of his visit to
    Tokyo, the Romanian official will be received by his Japanese counterpart Fumio
    Kishida and will be having talks with the delegation of the Japan-Romania
    Parliamentary Friendship League chaired by Ichiro Aisawa and with Hosoda
    Hiroyuki, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan.










    REFUGEES Roughly 10,400 Ukrainian nationals entered Romania on Saturday,
    6.3% more than in the previous day, the Romanian border police have announced.
    Since February 10th, over 2.4 million Ukrainians have entered
    Romania most of them transiting it. In the past 24 hours, the Romanian
    authorities have issued 77 residence permits for the Ukrainian citizens. According to the
    Interior Ministry in Bucharest, 70 thousand such permits have been issued since
    March 18th. Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, roughly
    44 hundred Ukrainians have applied for asylum in Romania.










    IT Romania has this week become European champion in the
    2022 Junior Informatics Olympiad. According to the Society for Excellence and
    Performance in Computing, students from Romania won two gold, four silver and
    one bronze medal at the aforementioned competition staged online by Ukraine,
    which brought together 170 competitors from 132 countries. The winners are
    students from the cities of Bucharest and Ploiesti in southern Romania and
    according to the teachers training them Romania is the only country that has
    managed to win gold in every edition of the aforementioned competition.




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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.


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