Sports Review
The latest from athletics, tennis, water polo, and football
Florin Orban, 21.07.2025, 13:45
Romania ended the European Athletics U23 Championships, held in Bergen, Norway, with two gold medals. On Friday, Alexia Ioana Dospin won the triple jump, and on Sunday, Ramona Elena Verman won the long jump. With these two medals, Romania ranked 13th in the final standings by nation. Germany came first, with 5 gold medals, 9 silver medals, and 12 bronze medals.
Romanian tennis player Irina Begu won the WTA 250 tournament, with €239,000 in prize money, which ended on Sunday in Iași (eastern Romania). In the final, she defeated Switzerland’s Jil Teichmann 6-0, 7-5. Irina thus won the sixth WTA title of her career and was rewarded with a check for €31,565 and 250 WTA points.
At the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, Romania’s water polo team will face Japan on Tuesday in the match for 9th place. After losing 11-15 to Hungary in the quarter-final play-off on Friday, the Romanian team faced Canada on Sunday in the 9th-12th place play-offs, beating them 18-12.
Over the weekend, matches were played in the second round of the Romanian Super League in football. On Friday, in Sibiu, Hermannstadt and Metaloglobus Bucharest tied 2-2, and in Craiova, Universitatea beat FC Argeș 3-1. On Saturday, Universitatea Cluj tied 1-1 at home against UTA Arad, and FCSB won 1-0 in Ploiești against Petrolul. On Sunday, in Ovidiu, Farul Constanța defeated Oțelul Galați 3-2, then, in Bucharest, the match between Rapid and CFR Cluj ended in a 1-1 draw. On Monday, the last two matches of the round: Unirea Slobozia vs. Csikszereda and Dinamo București vs. FC Botoșani. After two rounds, no team has managed to get the maximum number of points, so six teams are leading the standings with four points each. (MI)
