Sports Roundup
News from rowing, tennis, swimming and football
Florin Orban, 24.07.2023, 13:45
Romania finished the 2023 World Rowing Under 23 Championships held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, with 2 wins. On Saturday, the Romanian womens quadruple sculls team comprising Emanuela-Ioana Ciotău, Alexandra Ungureanu, Cristina Drugă and Patricia Cireş, won the gold. The next day, in the double sculls race, Andrada-Maria Moroşanu and Iulia-Liliana Bălăucă also won the gold medals. These results placed Romania on the 6th place in the nations ranking, which was topped by Italy with a total of 9 medals, 5 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze.
The Romanian tennis player Ana Bogdan won the WTA 125 tournament in Iaşi, which had EUR 100,000 in total prize money. In the final on Sunday, she defeated another Romanian, Irina Begu, 6-2, 6-3, to win the competition in Iaşi for the second year in a row. Bogdan, 30, seed no. 2 in the tournament and currently no. 49 WTA, won the match in 1 h and 24 minutes. Begu, 32, seed no. 1 and no. 31 in the world, won EUR 6,960 and 95 WTA points. Ana Bogdan takes home EUR 13,040 and 160 WTA points. In the same tournaments doubles final, the Romanians Irina Bara and Monica Niculescu were defeated by Veronika Erjavec and Dalila Jakupovic (Slovenia), 6-4, 6-4.
The World Swimming Championships continue in Fukuoka, Japan. David Popovici, the defending world champion in the 100 and 200m freestyle events, entered the competition on Monday morning. He qualified into the semifinals of the 200m race, with the final scheduled for Tuesday.
This weekend also saw matches counting towards the second leg of the Romanian football Super League. On Friday Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe won 1-0 on home turf against FC U Craiova 1948, while CFR Arad defeated the local team UTA 3-1. On Saturday, Farul Constanţa beat FC Voluntari 4-1, and FCSB won the derby against Dinamo, 2-1. On Sunday, Hermannstadt outplayed Poli Iaşi 3-1 away from home, with Rapid Bucharest winning the match against Universitatea Cluj 3-0. Three teams are top of the current ranking, with 6 points each: Farul, CFR and FCSB. (AMP)
