Sports roundup
A roundup of the the main sporting events and news
Florin Orban, 14.06.2021, 13:45
The tennis tournament in Roland Garros has ended with two winners:
Serbian Novak Djokovic in the men’s competition, and Barbora Krejicikova of the
Czech Republic in the women’s contest. The best Romanian participation in the
aforementioned top sporting event was that of Irina Begu, who together with
Argentinean Nadia Podoroska made it to the semifinals of the women’s doubles.
Their performance has been rewarded with 84,749 Euros and 780 WTA points. The
Roland Garros tournament has been Begu’s second Grand Slam semifinals after
Australian Open in 2018, when she played together with her compatriot Monica
Niculescu.
Shot putter Rareş Andrei
Toader has broken a Romanian record in this event after winning the
international contest hosted by the Czech town of Brno with a shot of 21 meters
and 29 centimeters. The performance in Brno has brought Toader the most-coveted
tickets for Tokyo Olympics. The Romanian managed to equal the former national
record last week but that wasn’t enough to qualify for the upcoming Olympic
Games. After the competition in the Czech Republic, Toader has become Romania’s
seventh athlete qualified for Tokyo.
In the first game of the European Football Championship in Bucharest on
Sunday, Austria secured a 3-1 win against North Macedonia. The match was
watched by 9 thousand football fans as the stadium had only 13 thousand seats
available in accordance with the anti-Covid measures. Stefan Lainer, Michael
Gregoritsch and Marko Arnautovic scored for Austria and Goran Pandev for
Macedonia. Also in group C, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands secured a 3-2 win
against Ukraine. In the competition’s second leg, North Macedonia takes on
Ukraine in Bucharest on June 17th and the Dutch side will be playing
Austria in Amsterdam.
Oradea, a city in western Romania, on Tuesday hosts the National
Handball League’s finals. Local side CSM will be playing U-BT Cluj Napoca. The
latter has a 2-0 advance on aggregate after the first matches on its own turf.
The best side out of five games will be winner of the competition.
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