Sports roundup

News from canoeing, judo, women's volleyball and football

Florin Orban, 15.05.2023, 13:45

At the 2023
ICF Canoe Spring World Cup held in Szeged, Hungary, Romania won 3 medals.
Cătălin Chirilă won the canoe single 500m and 1,000m races, and Ilie Sprincean and
Oleg Nuţă won the canoe double 1,000m race. In the competition in Szeged, Romania
was represented by 9 athletes, 2 women and 7 men, and came out 3rd
in the medal table.

Romania has
left empty-handed from the World Judo Championships in Doha, Qatar. The
Romanian participants performed modestly, with the best result reported for Lucian
Borş – Dumitrescu, who reached the eighth-finals of the 66 kg category. The
last medals for Romania in a world judo championship were won in 2015, in
Astana, Kazakhstan, by Andreea Chiţu, in the 52 kg category, and by Corina
Căprioriu, in the 57 kg.

CSM Lugoj won
their first Romanian cup in women’s volleyball. The team from Lugoj Sunday won
the final against CSM Târgovişte, 3-1, in Piteşti. In Saturday’s semis, CSM
Lugoj beat Volei Alba Blaj, the defending champions and trophy holders, 3-2. The
athletes from Lugoj thus conclude a very good season, in which they won the Cup
Winners Cup, the Romanian Cup and played the Challenge Cup final.

This
weekend saw matches counting towards the play-off / play-out stage of Romania’s
football SuperLeague, round 8. In the play-off, Rapid Bucharest drew at home against
Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe, 0-all. Another tie, 1-all, came on Saturday in the match
pitting Universitatea Craiova against Farul Constanţa. On Sunday, in the derby
of this round, played on the National Arena in Bucharest in front of a crowd of
over 40,000, FCSB beat CFR Cluj 1-0. Top of the standings at present are Farul,
with 47 points, followed by FCSB, one point behind.

In the play-out
matches, on Friday FC Botoşani defeated Voluntari on home turf, 2-0. On Saturday,
Hermannstadt beat Petrolul Ploieşti 1-0, and Universitatea Cluj outplayed Chindia
Târgovişte, 2-0. On Sunday, UTA Arad won 2-0 against Mioveni, and FC U Craiova defeated
FC Argeş, 2-1. CS Mioveni is certain to be relegated to a lower league, one
round before the end of the play-out stage, while struggling to avoid
relegation are also FC Argeş, with 21 points, and Chindia, with 22. In the last
round, this coming Friday, FC Argeş take on Petrolul Ploiesti, and Chindia face
FC Voluntari. (AMP)