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  • Sports flash

    Sports flash


    Romanian tennis player
    Sorana Cîrstea this past Wednesday as part of the first round of the WTA 1000 tennis
    tournament in Rome, an event with 3, 600, 000 Euros in prize money, defeated US
    opponent Katie Volynets, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Sorana had a hard time defeated Katie,
    after two hours and 25 minutes of play. In the second round, Sorana will face WTA 20th-placed tennis player,
    Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko. Another Romanian tennis player competing in the Rome
    tournament, Gabriela Ruse, had no problem defeating Czech opponent Linda
    Fruhvirtova, 6-1, 6-nil. Gabriela will next take on WTA 15th-placed tennis player, player, Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia. The third Romanian tennis player competing in the Rome tournament, Ana Bogdan, has also emerged as a first-round winner, defeating Japan’s Nao Hibino, 7-5, 6-nil. In the second round, Bogdan
    takes on WTA number 4 tennis player, the French Caroline Garcia.


    The World Judo Championship
    is underway in Qatar’s Doha. So far, the Romanian delegation has had a lackluster
    performance. On Wednesday, in the 63-kilogram category, in the first round, Florentina Ivanescu sustained
    a defeat by Korean opponent Chaewon Shin. For the sixth time around, Clarisse Agbegnenou of France won the world title in the 63-kilogram
    category. In the final, Clarisse defeated Slovenia’s Andreja Leski through
    ippon. The bronze medals went to Hungarian judoka Szofi Özbas and the Dutch Joanne
    van Lieshout.


    The ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup 2023 will be
    held in Hungary’s Szeged, from Thursday and all through to Sunday. The world
    champion in the men’s C-1 1,000m sprint canoeing event, the Romanian Catalin
    Chirila, is among the participants. Chirila
    is one the Romanian rowers standing great chances to win an Olympic medal in
    the 2024 edition of the Paris Olympics.


    In news from football, in a derby
    confrontation counting towards the Romanian Second League’s Group 1, on
    Wednesday Poli Iaşi grabbed a 5-1 home win against Steaua Bucharest. Mathematically
    speaking, Poli Iasi has already been promoted to the Superleague. Runner-up
    team Steaua is lawfully denied promotion irrespective of its position according
    to the Second league’s final rankings.

  • Sports flash

    Sports flash


    Romanian tennis player
    Sorana Cîrstea this past Wednesday as part of the first round of the WTA 1000 tennis
    tournament in Rome, an event with 3, 600, 000 Euros in prize money, defeated US
    opponent Katie Volynets, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. Sorana had a hard time defeated Katie,
    after two hours and 25 minutes of play. In the second round, Sorana will face WTA 20th-placed tennis player,
    Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko. Another Romanian tennis player competing in the Rome
    tournament, Gabriela Ruse, had no problem defeating Czech opponent Linda
    Fruhvirtova, 6-1, 6-nil. Gabriela will next take on WTA 15th-placed tennis player, player, Brazil’s Beatriz Haddad Maia. The third Romanian tennis player competing in the Rome tournament, Ana Bogdan, has also emerged as a first-round winner, defeating Japan’s Nao Hibino, 7-5, 6-nil. In the second round, Bogdan
    takes on WTA number 4 tennis player, the French Caroline Garcia.


    The World Judo Championship
    is underway in Qatar’s Doha. So far, the Romanian delegation has had a lackluster
    performance. On Wednesday, in the 63-kilogram category, in the first round, Florentina Ivanescu sustained
    a defeat by Korean opponent Chaewon Shin. For the sixth time around, Clarisse Agbegnenou of France won the world title in the 63-kilogram
    category. In the final, Clarisse defeated Slovenia’s Andreja Leski through
    ippon. The bronze medals went to Hungarian judoka Szofi Özbas and the Dutch Joanne
    van Lieshout.


    The ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup 2023 will be
    held in Hungary’s Szeged, from Thursday and all through to Sunday. The world
    champion in the men’s C-1 1,000m sprint canoeing event, the Romanian Catalin
    Chirila, is among the participants. Chirila
    is one the Romanian rowers standing great chances to win an Olympic medal in
    the 2024 edition of the Paris Olympics.


    In news from football, in a derby
    confrontation counting towards the Romanian Second League’s Group 1, on
    Wednesday Poli Iaşi grabbed a 5-1 home win against Steaua Bucharest. Mathematically
    speaking, Poli Iasi has already been promoted to the Superleague. Runner-up
    team Steaua is lawfully denied promotion irrespective of its position according
    to the Second league’s final rankings.

  • Sports Roundup

    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)

  • Sports Roundup

    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)