Sports Weekend

A look at the main sporting events this weekend

Florin Orban, 31.03.2023, 13:45

Today’s sports programme begins
with the latest from the women’s national handball league. Two of the sides,
which represented Romania in the European cups, met on Thursday. So, Rapid
Bucharest, a team qualified for the Champions League quarterfinals was up
against SCM Ramnicu Valcea, which stopped in the European League’s quarters.

Rapid clinched a 36-33 win after
a very balanced game decided in the last minutes. French Orlane Kanor scored most
of the goals for Rapid whereas Serbian left back Jovana Kovacevic put up the
best show for the visitors, with 8 goals scored. The vice champions of the last
year’s edition, CSM Bucharest, are presently topping the ranking with 61 points
out of 21 matches. Gloria Bistrita and the last year’s champions, Rapid, are
coming next, each with 49 points out of 20 games.

The Junior World Artistic
Championships is underway in Antalya, Turkey. Romania ranked eighth in the
women’s team contest on Thursday. Gabriela Vănoagă, Crina Tudor and Anamaria
Mihăescu represented Romania in the aforementioned contest. Japan won gold, the
USA took silver and Italy bronze. Two Romanians qualified for the individual
all round finals, Gabriela Vănoagă, in the tenth position and Crina Tudor in
the twentieth position in terms of the points won. Vănoagă had also qualified
for the beam finals, where she ranked fourth.

This weekend will be seeing the
matches counting towards the second leg of Romania’s Football Superleague.

So, FC U Craiova takes on Petrolul
Ploieşti on Friday. On Saturday, UTA plays Universitatea Cluj while Hermannstadt,
on their own turf, takes on FC Botoşani. On Sunday in Piteşti, southern
Romania, local side FC Argeş will be up against FC Voluntari, while on Monday, Chindia
Târgovişte takes on FC Mioveni. On Saturday in Bucharest, local side Rapid will
be up against Farul Constanţa. Also on Sunday, in Craiova, southwestern
Romania, local side Universitatea plays CFR Cluj. On Monday in Sfântu Gheorghe,
central Romania, the local football club, Sepsi OSK, is up against FCSB. Farul
tops the table with 35 points followed by CFR with 33, FCSB, with 30,
Universitatea Craiova with 28, Rapid with 27, and Sfântu Gheorghe with 21.

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