Sports Roundup
The latest from women's handball, athletics, climbing and football
Florin Orban, 17.07.2023, 13:45
The European Women’s U-19 Handball Championship
has drawn to a close in Pitesti his past Sunday. Romania won the bronze medal,
an absolute first for the national squad in the last 16 years, for the U-19 category.
In the 3rd-place final Romania defeated Portugal, 39-32. The European title went
to Hungary, a team that secured a 35-26 win against Denmark.
Romania
has had a no-medal record at the end of the European U-23 Athletics Championships
held in Espoo, Finland. Romanian delegation’s best performance in the
competition was Mihai Sorin Dringo’s coming in 4th in the 400m race.
Romania sent a 20-strong delegation in Finland. 12 athletes competed in the women’s
version, while 8 other in the men’s version of the event.
The Romanian climber Horia Colibăşanu has yet
again succeeded a great performance. On Saturday, Horia climbed the Karakorum Massif’s
Broad Peak located on the Pakistani-Chinese border, at an altitude of 8, 051 meters.
Broad Peak is the 10th over-8,000m peak Colibasanu has climbed in
his career.
Romanian women’s national football team in Bucharest this past Sunday
grabbed a 2-nil win in a friendly against Bulgaria. Towards the end of the
first half Romania twice turned two penalty kicks into goals. On September
22nd, in the League of Nations B2 Group, Romania makes its debut in the competition
with an away fixture against Croatia. Also part of B2 group are Finland and Slovakia.
This past weekend saw the Romanian Football
Super League kick-starting for a fresh edition. On Friday, the match pitting Oţelul
Galaţi against UTA Arad ended 1-all, while the match pitting Rapid Bucharest against Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe ended in a blank draw. In Sibiu on Saturday,
Farul Constanţa defeated FC Hermannstadt, 1-nil, while on home turf, CFR Cluj outclassed
Poli Iaşi, 2-nil. In Ploiesti on Sunday, the local side Petrolul drew against Universitatea
Cluj, 1-all, while in Târgu Jiu, FCSB grabbed a 3 -1 win against FC U
Craiova 1948.
