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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend

    This weekend will be seeing the matches of the second leg of the Champions League’s in women’s handball. In Group A, Gloria Bistriţa-Năsăud will be up against the French champions Metz in an away game. The French side has made it to the Final Four twice in the past three years. Last weekend, Metz, ended in a 29-all draw their away match against the Norwegians from Storhamar. In their Champions League’s debut, Gloria secured a 30-26 win against CSM Bucharest. On Sunday, CSM will be up, on their own turf, against Storhamar.

    In the League’s B Group, Romania’s vice-champions Rapid Bucharest, will go to Norway to play local side Vipers Kristiansand, the 2023 winners of the Champions League. The Norwegians lost against Brest Bretagne 27-30 in France last week, whereas Rapid clinched a home win, 32-27 against Buducnost Podgorica. However, Rapid lost in the domestic championship to Gloria Bistriţa-Năsăud, 24 – 22.

    This weekend will also be seeing the games of the ninth leg of the Romanian Football Superleague. Two games on Friday Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe plays FC Botoşani and Dinamo Bucharest takes on Unirea Slobozia. On Saturday, Oţelul Galaţi plays Gloria Buzău away from home, while in Ploiesti, southern Romania, local side Petrolul plays Farul Constanţa. The first match on Sunday will be pitching in Iasi, north-eastern Romania, Poli against Universitatea Craiova. Poli Iasi has a new headcoach,  Emil Săndoi, who has this week replaced Portuguese Tony da Silva. The leg’s most important match will be pitching CFR Cluj and FCSB, in Transylvania.

    On Monday in Arad, local side UTA will be playing FC Hermannstadt of sibiu, while in Bucharest Rapid will be up against Universitatea Cluj. After eight legs, Universitatea Cluj tops the table with 18 points followed by Universitatea Craiova and Oţelul Galaţi.

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  • Sports Flash

    Sports Flash

    Romania will be represented by 7 female athletes at the World Athletics Indoor Championship in Glasgow, Scotland. Alina Rotaru-Kottmann will be competing in the long-jump event, Andreea Taloş and Diana Ion in the triple jump and Daniela Stanciu, in the high jump contest. Andreea Miklos will represent Romania in the 400 meter dash while Claudia Bobocea and Petronela Simiuc in the 800 and 1500 meter races.

    Romania had 11 athletes in the past edition of the aforementioned indoor competition in Belgrade in 2022, and the best Romanian performance was obtained by Claudia Bobocea – the 9th place in the 1.500 meter race. The latest medals obtained by athletes from Romania in a suchlike indoor contest were at the 2016 edition in Portland, where Andrei Gag reaped silver in the shot put event and the women’s 4×400 meter relay team, which included Andreea Miklos, came third in the race.

    Romania’s rugby side will be playing Georgia on Saturday in an away game of the 2024 edition of Rugby Europe Championship, the second big European contest after Six Nations.  In the other semifinals game on Sunday, Portugal will be up, on their own ground, against Spain. The winners will be playing in the finals due on the Jean Bouin stadium, in Paris on March 17th.

    Romania’s women handball side will be playing Croatia, in Koprivnica on Sunday in a match counting towards the first group of the European Championship qualifiers. The two sides also met on Wednesday in Bistrita, central Romania, where our athletes secured a 26-24 win. In the group’s ranking Romania comes first with 6 points followed by Croatia with 4, Greece with 2 and Bosnia-Herzegovina with no point. The first two sides of each group will qualify as well as the best four sides on the third position.

    This weekend will be seeing a series of matches counting towards the 29th leg of the Romanian Football Superleague. Only one game on Friday when Poli Iasi takes on Dinamo Bucharest. On Saturday, UTA plays FCU Craiova in a home game, then Hermannstadt also at home will be up against Otelul Galati. In Constanta, local side Farul will be playing CFR Cluj. On Sunday, Universitatea Cluj will be playing FC Botosani, while FCSB plays in Bucharest Petrolul Ploiesti. On Monday, Sepsi, on their own turf, will be playing FC Voluntari and Universitatea Craiova, at home, will receive Rapid Bucharest. FCSB ranks first in the standings with 61 points, followed by Rapid, ten points less.

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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    UTA Arad will be present in the Romanian Football Superleague next year
    as well. In the second round of the play-off for a place in the first football
    league, UTA secured a 5-1 win against Gloria Buzau after a goaless draw in the
    first match. Dinamo Bucharest comes back to the first football league, after a
    6-1 win against FC Arges. The score was 4-2 in the first game. Poli Iasi and
    Otelul Galati have also become first leaguers.






    Romania’s national eleven has gathered in Mogosoaia, close to Bucharest
    for a training campaign before the EURO 2024 preliminaries. Our footballers are
    taking on Kosovo in Pristina on June 16 and will next fly to Switzerland for a
    match against the local side on June 19. After the victories obtained in March
    against Andorra and Belarus, Romania ranks second in the first group of the EURO
    2024 qualifiers, with the same number of points as Switzerland, namely six.






    Last weekend, Romanian diver Constantin Popovici won the first round of
    the Red Bull Cliff Diving held in Boston. The European en titre champion, Popovici
    has thus started off on the right foot in the 2023 season of the aforementioned
    contest. He obtained the highest number of points in the history of the
    competition 492.90 for the four dives and the highest number of points in one
    dive, 171. The other Romanian in the contest, Cătălin Preda, ranked eighth.




    Daniela Stanciu obtained a clear win in the high jump event of Romania’s
    International Athletics Championships held in Bucharest on Sunday. The Romanian
    managed a jump of one meter and 96 centimeters, equaling her personal record in
    2019. Federica Apostol also from Romania, came second with a jump of one meter
    and 84 centimeters.


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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    UTA Arad will be present in the Romanian Football Superleague next year
    as well. In the second round of the play-off for a place in the first football
    league, UTA secured a 5-1 win against Gloria Buzau after a goaless draw in the
    first match. Dinamo Bucharest comes back to the first football league, after a
    6-1 win against FC Arges. The score was 4-2 in the first game. Poli Iasi and
    Otelul Galati have also become first leaguers.






    Romania’s national eleven has gathered in Mogosoaia, close to Bucharest
    for a training campaign before the EURO 2024 preliminaries. Our footballers are
    taking on Kosovo in Pristina on June 16 and will next fly to Switzerland for a
    match against the local side on June 19. After the victories obtained in March
    against Andorra and Belarus, Romania ranks second in the first group of the EURO
    2024 qualifiers, with the same number of points as Switzerland, namely six.






    Last weekend, Romanian diver Constantin Popovici won the first round of
    the Red Bull Cliff Diving held in Boston. The European en titre champion, Popovici
    has thus started off on the right foot in the 2023 season of the aforementioned
    contest. He obtained the highest number of points in the history of the
    competition 492.90 for the four dives and the highest number of points in one
    dive, 171. The other Romanian in the contest, Cătălin Preda, ranked eighth.




    Daniela Stanciu obtained a clear win in the high jump event of Romania’s
    International Athletics Championships held in Bucharest on Sunday. The Romanian
    managed a jump of one meter and 96 centimeters, equaling her personal record in
    2019. Federica Apostol also from Romania, came second with a jump of one meter
    and 84 centimeters.


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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend

    Romanian tennis player Irina Begu on Thursday qualified for the third
    round of the WTA 1.000 tournament in Madrid, with more than seven million
    dollars in prize money. In the second round the Romanian secured a 6-4, 7-5 win
    against Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic. The other two Romanians, Sorana
    Cirstea and Ana Bogdan, have been eliminated in the second round of the
    competition: Cirstea by second-seeded Arina Sabalenka of Belarus, who won the
    game in two sets 6-4, 6-3. Bogdan has been defeated by US challenger Shelby Rogers, who secured a 6-2,
    6-2 win. Irina Begu will next take on Rogers in the competition’s third round.

    Now let’s have a look at women’s handball because this weekend will be
    seeing the first round of the Champions League quarterfinals. Both Romanian
    sides present in the competition are playing on Sunday when Rapid Bucharest
    will be up at home against Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand, the last year’s
    winner of the competition, while CSM Bucharest plays Team Esbjerg in Denmark.




    In the men’s competitions, Romania’s national side will be trying to
    qualify for European Championship in a decisive game against Ukraine in
    Gummersbach, Germany. The Romanians are hankering for a win in the fourth group
    of the qualifiers topped by Austria with 10 points, a team which has already
    qualified for the competition’s next stage. Romania and the Faroe Islands come
    next in the group, each with 4 points followed by Ukraine with two. The first
    two sides in each of the 8 preliminary groups will advance to the competition’s
    new stage together with four of the best sides on the third position. The final
    tournament is due in Germany over 10th and 28th of
    January 2024. Romania hasn’t qualified for a final men’s tournament since 1996.




    Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe and Universitatea Cluj have qualified for the
    finals of Romania’s Football Cup. Sepsi secured a 3-0 home win against CFR Cluj
    while on Thursday Universitatea Cluj outperformed UTA one-nil. The finals is
    due in Sibiu, southern Romania on May 24th.


    This weekend will be seeing the matches of the sixth leg of Romania’s Football
    Superleague. FCU Craiova will be playing Chindia Targoviste on Friday, while on
    Saturday CS Mioveni plays FC Arges and Petrolul Ploiesti will be up against FC
    Botosani.




    On Monday, FC Voluntari takes on Universitatea Cluj while UTA plays at
    home Hermannstadt of Sibiu. On Saturday, Sepsi plays Farul Constanta in a home
    game while on Sunday Universitatea Craiova, on their own turf, plays FCSB. On
    Monday the capital city Bucharest will be seeing an interesting match pitching
    local side Rapid against CFR Cluj. Farul tops the ranking with 42 points,
    followed by CFRR with 38 and FCSB with 37.


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  • Sports Weekend

    Sports Weekend

    Romanian tennis player Irina Begu on Thursday qualified for the third
    round of the WTA 1.000 tournament in Madrid, with more than seven million
    dollars in prize money. In the second round the Romanian secured a 6-4, 7-5 win
    against Karolina Muchova of the Czech Republic. The other two Romanians, Sorana
    Cirstea and Ana Bogdan, have been eliminated in the second round of the
    competition: Cirstea by second-seeded Arina Sabalenka of Belarus, who won the
    game in two sets 6-4, 6-3. Bogdan has been defeated by US challenger Shelby Rogers, who secured a 6-2,
    6-2 win. Irina Begu will next take on Rogers in the competition’s third round.

    Now let’s have a look at women’s handball because this weekend will be
    seeing the first round of the Champions League quarterfinals. Both Romanian
    sides present in the competition are playing on Sunday when Rapid Bucharest
    will be up at home against Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand, the last year’s
    winner of the competition, while CSM Bucharest plays Team Esbjerg in Denmark.




    In the men’s competitions, Romania’s national side will be trying to
    qualify for European Championship in a decisive game against Ukraine in
    Gummersbach, Germany. The Romanians are hankering for a win in the fourth group
    of the qualifiers topped by Austria with 10 points, a team which has already
    qualified for the competition’s next stage. Romania and the Faroe Islands come
    next in the group, each with 4 points followed by Ukraine with two. The first
    two sides in each of the 8 preliminary groups will advance to the competition’s
    new stage together with four of the best sides on the third position. The final
    tournament is due in Germany over 10th and 28th of
    January 2024. Romania hasn’t qualified for a final men’s tournament since 1996.




    Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe and Universitatea Cluj have qualified for the
    finals of Romania’s Football Cup. Sepsi secured a 3-0 home win against CFR Cluj
    while on Thursday Universitatea Cluj outperformed UTA one-nil. The finals is
    due in Sibiu, southern Romania on May 24th.


    This weekend will be seeing the matches of the sixth leg of Romania’s Football
    Superleague. FCU Craiova will be playing Chindia Targoviste on Friday, while on
    Saturday CS Mioveni plays FC Arges and Petrolul Ploiesti will be up against FC
    Botosani.




    On Monday, FC Voluntari takes on Universitatea Cluj while UTA plays at
    home Hermannstadt of Sibiu. On Saturday, Sepsi plays Farul Constanta in a home
    game while on Sunday Universitatea Craiova, on their own turf, plays FCSB. On
    Monday the capital city Bucharest will be seeing an interesting match pitching
    local side Rapid against CFR Cluj. Farul tops the ranking with 42 points,
    followed by CFRR with 38 and FCSB with 37.


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  • Sports roundup

    Sports roundup

    Romanian athletes walked away with four medals from the
    European Wrestling Championships the Hungarian capital Budapest hosted last
    week. In women’s competitions, Andreea Ana became the gold medalist in the 55-kilogram
    category, while Alina Vuc and Kriszta Incze reaped bronze in the 50 and 65
    kilogram categories. Nicu Ojog won silver in the 87-kilogram category of the men’s
    Greek-Roman contest.




    The Romanian women’s side Minaur Baia Mare on Sunday
    qualified for the semifinals of the EHF European League. The Romanian side
    ended in a 29-all draw their second game against Norwegian side Sola in the quarter
    finals. At home Minaur had clinched a 40-32 win.




    Romania’s second side in the European League, SCM Ramnicu
    Valcea was stopped in its tracks by the aggregate win of Danish side Herning
    Ikast, 39-33 at home and 33-28 in Denmark on Saturday. Danish side Viborg and
    German team Bietigheim have also qualified for Final Four. Last year the city
    of Baia Mare, in northern Romania, hosted the competition’s final tournament
    won by French side Nantes Atlantique while local side Minaur came third.




    Last weekend saw the matches of the third leg of Romania’s
    first football league. On Friday, FC U Craiova versus CS Mioveni ended in a
    draw, one-all. Then in Ploiesti, southern Romania, Dinamo Bucharest clinched a 2-nil
    win against Chindia Targoviste. On Saturday, in Arad, Western Romania, local
    side UTA obtained a clear 4-0 win against Gaz Metan Medias while in Bucharest
    on their new stadium local side Rapid obtained a 3-0 win against FC Botosani.




    On Saturday FC Voluntari defeated Farul Constanţa 1-0 while
    on Sunday in one of the leg’s most important games, Universitatea Craiova secured
    a 2-0 away win against FCSB. CFR Cluj ranks first in the standings with 42 points
    followed by FCSB with 37 and Universitatea Craiova with 33.




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  • Sports roundup

    Sports roundup

    Romanian athletes walked away with four medals from the
    European Wrestling Championships the Hungarian capital Budapest hosted last
    week. In women’s competitions, Andreea Ana became the gold medalist in the 55-kilogram
    category, while Alina Vuc and Kriszta Incze reaped bronze in the 50 and 65
    kilogram categories. Nicu Ojog won silver in the 87-kilogram category of the men’s
    Greek-Roman contest.




    The Romanian women’s side Minaur Baia Mare on Sunday
    qualified for the semifinals of the EHF European League. The Romanian side
    ended in a 29-all draw their second game against Norwegian side Sola in the quarter
    finals. At home Minaur had clinched a 40-32 win.




    Romania’s second side in the European League, SCM Ramnicu
    Valcea was stopped in its tracks by the aggregate win of Danish side Herning
    Ikast, 39-33 at home and 33-28 in Denmark on Saturday. Danish side Viborg and
    German team Bietigheim have also qualified for Final Four. Last year the city
    of Baia Mare, in northern Romania, hosted the competition’s final tournament
    won by French side Nantes Atlantique while local side Minaur came third.




    Last weekend saw the matches of the third leg of Romania’s
    first football league. On Friday, FC U Craiova versus CS Mioveni ended in a
    draw, one-all. Then in Ploiesti, southern Romania, Dinamo Bucharest clinched a 2-nil
    win against Chindia Targoviste. On Saturday, in Arad, Western Romania, local
    side UTA obtained a clear 4-0 win against Gaz Metan Medias while in Bucharest
    on their new stadium local side Rapid obtained a 3-0 win against FC Botosani.




    On Saturday FC Voluntari defeated Farul Constanţa 1-0 while
    on Sunday in one of the leg’s most important games, Universitatea Craiova secured
    a 2-0 away win against FCSB. CFR Cluj ranks first in the standings with 42 points
    followed by FCSB with 37 and Universitatea Craiova with 33.




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