Sports Flash
A look at the latest sporting events with Romanian participation
Florin Orban, 12.12.2024, 13:51
The Romanian women’s handball side ranked sixth at the end of the group stage of the European Women’s Handball Championships underway in Austria, Switzerland and Hungary. In Group One, Romania has the same number of points as Poland, the side in the fifth place. In the final ranking Romania will be in the 10th place meeting the objective set by the handball federation in Bucharest, which wanted our handballers among the first 12 sides in the competition.
Romania managed three wins in the present edition, against Czechia, Serbia and Sweden and lost to Montenegro, France, Hungary and Poland. Coach Florentin Pera sent to the pitch a young lineup as many top-notch handballers, including Cristina Neagu, Crina Pintea and Eliza Buceschi, had withdrawn from the national side.
In the semifinals of the European Championship due in Vienna on Friday, Hungary will be playing Norway, while France will be taking on Denmark. Vienna will also host the competition’s finals on Sunday.
In the men’s competition of the National Handball League, Dinamo Bucharest secured a clear win against CSM Constanta, 32-23.
Only the first half of the game was balanced ending 17-15 to the hosts. The champions managed a better show after the break and secured a well-deserved victory at a difference of nine goals. Dinamo has won all the 12 matches it has played in the championship’s present edition.
Anca Todoni has been designated Romania’s best tennis player in 2024, during the Award Gala of the Romanian Tennis Federation held in Bucharest on Wednesday. Todoni has this year won two WTA tournaments in Bari, Italy and Santa Cruz in Bolivia. She is presently occupying the 118th position in the WTA ranking.
During the same event, Raluca Olaru got the Excellency Award for her entire career. The retiring 35 year-old player got her best position, a 53rd place in the singles ranking in 2009, whereas in the doubles contests she made it up to the 30th place in 2022. She has won 11 WTA tournaments and made more than 1,700,000 dollars from tennis competitions.
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