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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend

    The city of Durban, in South
    Africa will this weekend play venue for the World Table Tennis Championships a
    competition where Romania will be represented by its 17th seeded Bernadette
    Szőcs, and 27th – seeded Elizabeta Samara, as well as by Andreea
    Dragoman and Adina Diaconu. They will participate in the women’s competition
    while Ovidiu Ionescu, Eduard Ionescu and Marius Movileanu will be representing
    Romania in the men’s contest. In the women’s doubles, the pair made up by
    Bernadette Szőcs and Sofia Polcanova of Austria is fourth-seeded, whereas Dragoman
    and Samara are seeded 14th. The 9th-seeded mixed pair Bernadette
    Szőcs – Ovidiu Ionescu also stands chances to a good performance in Durban.




    And now the latest from basketball.
    On Saturday, the city of Cluj-Napoca will be hosting the third game in the
    finals of Romania’s Championships. Local side U-BT will be up against CSM Oradea,
    which won the first two home games, 79-73 and 93-83. The finals is played on
    the-best-out-of-seven system and the fourth game is due on Monday.


    The European Championships in
    Rhythmic Gymnastics is presently being hosted by Baku, in Azerbaijan. In the
    women’s competition Romania is being represented by Annaliese Dragan and
    Andreea Verdes in the individual contest as well as by Alenia Biringer, Catrina
    Buniov, Anisia Dragan, Dalia Marin, Claudia Mitan and Antonia Stanescu. The
    individual finals and qualifiers are due on Friday while the last finals are
    due on Sunday.




    This weekend will see the 9th
    leg of the Romanian football Superleague with the most important game in
    Ovidiu, southeastern Romania, pitching local side Farul against FCSB. Farul tops
    the table a point head of FCSB. On Sunday, CFR Cluj plays Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe
    on the latter’s home turf, while on Monday Rapid on their own turf in Bucharest
    plays Universitatea Craiova.




    Friday will see four games, when Hermannstadt
    takes on Universitatea Cluj, Chindia Târgovişte plays FC Voluntari, FC Argeş Petrolul
    Ploieşti and UTA takes on FC U Craiova. FC Botoşani plays Mioveni on Saturday.


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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend

    The city of Durban, in South
    Africa will this weekend play venue for the World Table Tennis Championships a
    competition where Romania will be represented by its 17th seeded Bernadette
    Szőcs, and 27th – seeded Elizabeta Samara, as well as by Andreea
    Dragoman and Adina Diaconu. They will participate in the women’s competition
    while Ovidiu Ionescu, Eduard Ionescu and Marius Movileanu will be representing
    Romania in the men’s contest. In the women’s doubles, the pair made up by
    Bernadette Szőcs and Sofia Polcanova of Austria is fourth-seeded, whereas Dragoman
    and Samara are seeded 14th. The 9th-seeded mixed pair Bernadette
    Szőcs – Ovidiu Ionescu also stands chances to a good performance in Durban.




    And now the latest from basketball.
    On Saturday, the city of Cluj-Napoca will be hosting the third game in the
    finals of Romania’s Championships. Local side U-BT will be up against CSM Oradea,
    which won the first two home games, 79-73 and 93-83. The finals is played on
    the-best-out-of-seven system and the fourth game is due on Monday.


    The European Championships in
    Rhythmic Gymnastics is presently being hosted by Baku, in Azerbaijan. In the
    women’s competition Romania is being represented by Annaliese Dragan and
    Andreea Verdes in the individual contest as well as by Alenia Biringer, Catrina
    Buniov, Anisia Dragan, Dalia Marin, Claudia Mitan and Antonia Stanescu. The
    individual finals and qualifiers are due on Friday while the last finals are
    due on Sunday.




    This weekend will see the 9th
    leg of the Romanian football Superleague with the most important game in
    Ovidiu, southeastern Romania, pitching local side Farul against FCSB. Farul tops
    the table a point head of FCSB. On Sunday, CFR Cluj plays Sepsi Sfantu Gheorghe
    on the latter’s home turf, while on Monday Rapid on their own turf in Bucharest
    plays Universitatea Craiova.




    Friday will see four games, when Hermannstadt
    takes on Universitatea Cluj, Chindia Târgovişte plays FC Voluntari, FC Argeş Petrolul
    Ploieşti and UTA takes on FC U Craiova. FC Botoşani plays Mioveni on Saturday.


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  • Athlete of the Week

    Athlete of the Week

    Romania ranked 9th at the multisport European
    Championships hosted several days ago by Munich. Athletes from our country
    walked away with eight gold medals, two silver and five bronze from the aforementioned
    competition. Most of the medals were won by Romania’s rowers in the
    competition’s first week. In the second week, hammer thrower Bianca Ghelber,
    canoeist Catalin Chirila and table tennis player Bernadette Szocs reaped gold
    for Romania.




    Table tennis player Bernadette Szőcs, silver medalist in the
    mixed doubles contest together with Ovidiu Ionescu has been designated Athlete
    of the week by Radio Romania International.




    Bernadette Szőcs was born on March 5th 1995 in Târgu
    Mureş central Romania and took up table tennis at the age of 8. She managed to
    obtain good results in European and world competitions and these results pushed
    her ahead in world rankings. Because she was refused the support she needed
    from the sport authorities in Romania, in 2010 Szocs considered the idea of
    moving to Norway and competing under the Norwegian flag. Eventually she decided
    to give up her emigration plan and in 2016 at the European Championships in
    Budapest the athlete came third in the mixed doubles together with Ovidiu
    Ionescu and a year later at the championships in Luxembourg she obtained her
    first European title with the Romanian team.




    In 2018 in Montreux, Switzerland she compelled recognition
    in the European Top‑16 tournament, a competition, which brings together the
    best athletes on the continent. A year later in Nantes, France, she became
    European champion again with the Romanian team. She is presently ranking 32nd
    in the world ranking, where in 2019 she occupied the 14th position.




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  • Athlete of the Week

    Athlete of the Week

    Romania ranked 9th at the multisport European
    Championships hosted several days ago by Munich. Athletes from our country
    walked away with eight gold medals, two silver and five bronze from the aforementioned
    competition. Most of the medals were won by Romania’s rowers in the
    competition’s first week. In the second week, hammer thrower Bianca Ghelber,
    canoeist Catalin Chirila and table tennis player Bernadette Szocs reaped gold
    for Romania.




    Table tennis player Bernadette Szőcs, silver medalist in the
    mixed doubles contest together with Ovidiu Ionescu has been designated Athlete
    of the week by Radio Romania International.




    Bernadette Szőcs was born on March 5th 1995 in Târgu
    Mureş central Romania and took up table tennis at the age of 8. She managed to
    obtain good results in European and world competitions and these results pushed
    her ahead in world rankings. Because she was refused the support she needed
    from the sport authorities in Romania, in 2010 Szocs considered the idea of
    moving to Norway and competing under the Norwegian flag. Eventually she decided
    to give up her emigration plan and in 2016 at the European Championships in
    Budapest the athlete came third in the mixed doubles together with Ovidiu
    Ionescu and a year later at the championships in Luxembourg she obtained her
    first European title with the Romanian team.




    In 2018 in Montreux, Switzerland she compelled recognition
    in the European Top‑16 tournament, a competition, which brings together the
    best athletes on the continent. A year later in Nantes, France, she became
    European champion again with the Romanian team. She is presently ranking 32nd
    in the world ranking, where in 2019 she occupied the 14th position.




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  • August 19, 2022

    August 19, 2022

    BUDGET The Romanian
    government has endorsed the first budget adjustment this year, a positive one,
    based on a 3.5% growth of the revenue budget in the first six months and the
    budget execution in this period. Finance Minister Adrian Caciu believes the
    budget deficit can be kept under control and the 5.84% target at the end of the
    year is doable. The Fiscal Council, an independent watchdog monitoring the
    sustainability of fiscal and budget policies, has cautioned though that the
    latest adjustment can lead to an exceeded 7% deficit of the GDP, as the
    government has overrated the revenues and underrated part of the expenses.








    MARATHON 250 runners from 10 countries
    are to participate in one of the most difficult ultra marathons in Romania, the
    2X2 Race due to kick off on Saturday at the Balea Lake in the Fagaras
    Mountains, at an altitude over 2,000 meters, AGERPRESS news agency reports. The
    race is unique in Europe as most of it takes place at this staggering altitude.
    The 2X2 Race this year brings together runners from Romania, the Republic of
    Moldova, Hungary, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, France,
    Israel and Russia. They are to run up to the Negoiu, the second highest summit
    in Romania, at an altitude of 2535 meters.








    REFUGEES According to
    the General Border Police Inspectorate, roughly 292 thousand people, Romanian
    and foreign citizens, have been registered at Romania’s border checkpoints of
    late. Among them over 12,600 Ukrainian nationals, which bring the total number of
    Ukranian refugees who have entered Romania since the beginning of the conflict up
    to almost 2 million. Most of them have only transited Romania to other
    destinations.








    TENNIS On Thursday
    night, the Romanian-Austrian pair Bernadette Szocs/Sofia Polcanova walked away
    with gold from the women’s double finals of the European Table Tennis
    Championships in Munich, Germany after a win against the all-Romanian pair,
    Elizabeta Samara/Andreea Dragoman. Samara and Dragoman became silver medalists,
    while Adina Diaconu from Romania and Maria Xiao of Spain walked away with
    bronze. We recall that Bernadette Szocs and Ovidiu Ionescu won silver in the
    mixed doubles of the aforementioned competition.








    FOOTBALL Two draws
    and a defeat are the results obtained by the Romanian football sides in the
    first round of the Europa Conference League’s play-offs. The Romanian champions
    CFR Cluj ended in a goaless draw their away match against Slovenian side NK
    Maribor held on Thursday night. Universitatea Craiova drew their home game
    one-all against Israeli side Hapoel Beer-Sheva, FCSB, runner-up in the Romanian
    championship, lost 2-1 their home match against the Norwegians from Viking
    Stavanger. The return matches are due next week.






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  • Sportevents: EM-Titel für Tischtennisdamen, Handball-Europapokal, Fußball

    Sportevents: EM-Titel für Tischtennisdamen, Handball-Europapokal, Fußball

    Rumäniens Tischtennis-Damen sind Europameister! Bei der Mannschafts-Europameisterschaft im französischen Nantes gewannen sie das Endspiel gegen Portugal am Sonntag mit 3:0. Für Rumänien punkteten Bernadette Szőcs, Daniela Dodean Monteiro und Elizabeta Samara. Szőcs, die derzeit am besten platzierte Rumänin, bezwang im ersten Spiel Jieni Shao mit 3 :2, nach einem 1 :2 Rückstand. Es folgte der Sieg von Daniela Dodean gegen die beste Portugiesin, Yu Fu, mit 3 :2. Yu Fu hatte bei den Europäischen Spielen in Minsk Gold und bei der Europameisterschaft 2016 Silber im Einzel geholt. Schließlich gewann Eliza Samara, die Europameisterin von 2015, die letzte Begegnung mit Leila Oliveira mit 3 :0 nach Sätzen. Der rumänischen Mannschaft gehörten noch Adina Diaconu und Irina Ciobanu an. Für Rumänien ist es der fünfte Europameister-Titel im Mannschaftswettbewerb nach den Erfolgen von 1992, 2002, 2005 und 2017.



    Und nun zum Handball. Das Frauenteam des SCM Craiova hat sich ohne Mühe für die zweite Qualifikationsrunde des EHF-Cups qualifiziert. Die Ostrumäninnnen erreichten zwei deutliche Siege gegen die Italienerinnen von Jomi Salerno : Am Samstag hieß es 30 :21 für den SCM, am Sonntag folgte ein 29 :17. Beide Partien fanden in Craiova statt.


    Die Herrenmannschaft von Dobrogea Sud Constanţa ist in der Qualifikation für den EHF-Cup ebenfalls eine Runde weiter, nach dem Rückspiel-Sieg gegen Antalyaspor aus der Türkei, 29 :16 lautete das Endergebnis am Sonntag in der Stadt am Schwarzen Meer. Das Hinspiel in Antalya war 2 4 :24 ausgegangen.



    Und schließlich Fußball. Die rumänische Nationalmannschaft hat sich in der Qualifikation für die Europameisterschaft 2020 mit 1 :0 gegen Malta durchgesetzt. Den Siegtreffer erzielte am Sonntag in Ploieşti George Puşcaş in der 47. Spielminute. Rumänien bot dabei eine bescheidene Leistung, die drei Punkte lassen jedoch nach wie vor die Chance auf die EM-Qualifikation bestehen. Das Hinspiel in Malta hatte Rumänien mit 4:0 für sich entschieden. In derselben Qualifikationsgruppe F trennten sich Schweden und Norwegen in Stockholm 1:1 unentschieden. In Gijon bezwang Spanien die Färöer Inseln mit 4:0. Tabellenführer ist Spanien mit 18 aus 18 möglichen Punkten. Es folgen Schweden mit 11, Rumänien mit 10, Norwegen mit 9, Malta mit 3 Punkten und die noch punktlosen Färöer Inseln. Die nächsten Spiele für die rumänische Mannschaft sind die Auswärts-Begegnung mit den Färöer Inseln am 12. Oktober und das Heimspiel gegen Norwegen am 15 Oktober in Bukarest.