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  • Athlete of the week

    Athlete of the week

    Romania has already registered its first woman
    athlete that secured the qualification to the Olympic Games in 2024. Her name is
    Delvine Meringor, and this past Sunday in the Barcelona Marathon Meringor came
    in third, clocking 2 hours, 20 minutes and 48 seconds. Delvine thus met the set
    target required for the qualification in Paris. For her noteworthy performance,
    Radio Romania International has designated Delvine Meringor the Athlete of the week.


    The competition in Barcelona was extremely
    heated, while its standard was really high. The Marathon records were broken in the men’s as well as in the women’s version of the competition. Bahrain’s Marius Kimutai
    clocked 2 hours, 5 minutes and 6 seconds, while the winner of the women’s
    marathon, Ethiopian runner Zeineba Yimer Worku clocked 2 hours, 19 minutes
    and 44 de seconds. The women’s runner-up marathon runner was Kenya’s Selly
    Chpeyego, who crossed the finish line 44 seconds earlier than
    Delvine Meringor. In the women’s version of the Barcelona Marathon, seven runners
    failed to meet the International Federation’s Olympic target set at 2 hours, 26
    minutes and 50 seconds. As of late, the Olympic set target has been very high,
    while the most recent such set target is only 6 seconds higher than the timing
    clocked by the Romanian race runner Constantina Dita, who in 2008 won gold in the Beijing
    Olympics.


    Delvine Meringor was born in Kenya, on August
    1st, 1992. Since August 2021 Meringor has been a Romanian citizen and
    is signed up by Steaua Bucharest, while her coach is Valentin Anghel. According
    to the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee and in keeping with a World Athletics
    resolution, Delvine can legally represent Romania at national level beginning July
    5th, 2024. (EN)

  • Athlete of the week

    Athlete of the week

    Romania has already registered its first woman
    athlete that secured the qualification to the Olympic Games in 2024. Her name is
    Delvine Meringor, and this past Sunday in the Barcelona Marathon Meringor came
    in third, clocking 2 hours, 20 minutes and 48 seconds. Delvine thus met the set
    target required for the qualification in Paris. For her noteworthy performance,
    Radio Romania International has designated Delvine Meringor the Athlete of the week.


    The competition in Barcelona was extremely
    heated, while its standard was really high. The Marathon records were broken in the men’s as well as in the women’s version of the competition. Bahrain’s Marius Kimutai
    clocked 2 hours, 5 minutes and 6 seconds, while the winner of the women’s
    marathon, Ethiopian runner Zeineba Yimer Worku clocked 2 hours, 19 minutes
    and 44 de seconds. The women’s runner-up marathon runner was Kenya’s Selly
    Chpeyego, who crossed the finish line 44 seconds earlier than
    Delvine Meringor. In the women’s version of the Barcelona Marathon, seven runners
    failed to meet the International Federation’s Olympic target set at 2 hours, 26
    minutes and 50 seconds. As of late, the Olympic set target has been very high,
    while the most recent such set target is only 6 seconds higher than the timing
    clocked by the Romanian race runner Constantina Dita, who in 2008 won gold in the Beijing
    Olympics.


    Delvine Meringor was born in Kenya, on August
    1st, 1992. Since August 2021 Meringor has been a Romanian citizen and
    is signed up by Steaua Bucharest, while her coach is Valentin Anghel. According
    to the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee and in keeping with a World Athletics
    resolution, Delvine can legally represent Romania at national level beginning July
    5th, 2024. (EN)

  • Sports Flash

    Sports Flash




    The town of Otopeni, located north of
    Bucharest, is these days the capital city of European swimming. Europe’s best
    junior swimmers fight for the Championships medals, in a competition Romania
    plays host to, as an absolute first. The competition is hosted by a brand-new
    sports compound, with an Olympic swimming pool, another one for diving and four
    other swimming pools for recovery and warming up. The overall costs for the new
    compound stood at 30 million euro. Hosting its first ever top-flight sports
    competition, the Otopeni Olympic Compound has a 2, 800 seating capacity.




    The new star of Romanian swimming, David Popovici,
    was undoubtedly the top performer of the first competition days. We recall that
    in June this year in Budapest, David won the 100m and 200m world titles. In the
    first three days of the competition in Otiopneo, David stepped onto a step of
    the podium three times. On Tuesday, David Popovici won the 4X100m freestyle
    event (the 100m relay event). Other members of Romania’s relay team were Vlad Stancu,
    Ştefan Cozma and Patrick Sebastian Dinu. Second came Great Britain, while
    3rd-placed was the team of Italy.




    On Wednesday, David
    Popovici won the 200m freestyle event. David thus defended the title he won
    last year at the European Junior Championships in Rome. Also stepping onto a step
    of the podium was Italy’s Roberto Galossi and Jacob
    Whittle of Great Britain. David Popovici is also a world record holder in the
    juniors’ version of the 200m freestyle event. On June 20, at the World Seniors’
    championships in Budapest, David clocked 1 minute, 34 seconds and 21 hundredths
    of a second.




    Also on Wednesday, at the mixed 4x100m
    relay event, Romania came in second. Although they qualified for the sixth best
    timing, the Romanians succeeded a well above-par race. Romania dominated the
    first three legs of the relay race, but for the last hundred meters Hungary
    took the lead and maintained it, winning the relay. Stepping onto a step of the
    podium were David Popovici, Patrick Dinu, Bianca Costea and Rebecca Diaconescu.
    The competition is ongoing until this coming Sunday.

    (EN)


  • Sports Flash

    Sports Flash




    The town of Otopeni, located north of
    Bucharest, is these days the capital city of European swimming. Europe’s best
    junior swimmers fight for the Championships medals, in a competition Romania
    plays host to, as an absolute first. The competition is hosted by a brand-new
    sports compound, with an Olympic swimming pool, another one for diving and four
    other swimming pools for recovery and warming up. The overall costs for the new
    compound stood at 30 million euro. Hosting its first ever top-flight sports
    competition, the Otopeni Olympic Compound has a 2, 800 seating capacity.




    The new star of Romanian swimming, David Popovici,
    was undoubtedly the top performer of the first competition days. We recall that
    in June this year in Budapest, David won the 100m and 200m world titles. In the
    first three days of the competition in Otiopneo, David stepped onto a step of
    the podium three times. On Tuesday, David Popovici won the 4X100m freestyle
    event (the 100m relay event). Other members of Romania’s relay team were Vlad Stancu,
    Ştefan Cozma and Patrick Sebastian Dinu. Second came Great Britain, while
    3rd-placed was the team of Italy.




    On Wednesday, David
    Popovici won the 200m freestyle event. David thus defended the title he won
    last year at the European Junior Championships in Rome. Also stepping onto a step
    of the podium was Italy’s Roberto Galossi and Jacob
    Whittle of Great Britain. David Popovici is also a world record holder in the
    juniors’ version of the 200m freestyle event. On June 20, at the World Seniors’
    championships in Budapest, David clocked 1 minute, 34 seconds and 21 hundredths
    of a second.




    Also on Wednesday, at the mixed 4x100m
    relay event, Romania came in second. Although they qualified for the sixth best
    timing, the Romanians succeeded a well above-par race. Romania dominated the
    first three legs of the relay race, but for the last hundred meters Hungary
    took the lead and maintained it, winning the relay. Stepping onto a step of the
    podium were David Popovici, Patrick Dinu, Bianca Costea and Rebecca Diaconescu.
    The competition is ongoing until this coming Sunday.

    (EN)