Sports weekend
The latest from football
Florin Orban, 21.07.2023, 13:45
Andrea
Miklos is the fifth Romanian athlete to have secured the qualification to the
2024 edition of the Olympic Games in Paris. In the 400m race, Miklos came in 2nd
as part of an international contest held in Szekesfehervar, Hungary. Andrea clocked
50 seconds and 80 hundredths of a second, that is 15 hundredths of second
better than the Olympic standard. Sada
Williams of Barbardos was the winner, with 50 seconds and 34 hundredths of a
second. Apart from Andrea
Miklos, having already booked their ticket for Paris are Marathon runner Delvine
Meringor, swimmers David Popovici and Vlad Stancu, as well as pugilist Lăcrămioara
Perijoc.
The World Fencing Championships start in Italy’s Milan this coming
Saturday. The Championships begin on July 22 with the individual men’s sabre
and women’s epee events. The finals are scheduled on July 24th. Preliminaries
for men’s epee and women’s foil events are scheduled on July 23rd. The
finals are scheduled on Tuesday. The rest of the events take place next week. The
competition draws to a close on July 30th.
In news from football, the Romania national
team has climbed one notch down, from the 47th to the 48th
place according to the World national teams’ rankings made public by the
International Football Federation on Thursday. Defending world champions Argentina
still is at the top of the table. Vice world champions France and Brazil, respectively,
follow. Romania’s main challenger at the EURO 2024 preliminaries, Switzerland
has also climbed one notch down as against last month, from the 12th
to the 13th-place. Of Romania’s other opponents, best-placed is Israel,
ranking 79th. Kosovo and Andorra are 109th and 154th-placed,
respectively.
Matches counting towards the Romanian football Super league’s second round
are scheduled at the weekend. On Friday, Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe go against FC U Craiova
1948, while UTA play CFR Cluj. On Saturday, Farul Constanţa in Ovidiu play a
home fixture against FC Voluntari. In Romania’s capital city, the all-time
Bucharest derby will be played, pitting FCSB against Dinamo Bucharest. On
Sunday, Poli Iasi play a home game against FC Hermannstadt Sibiu, while Universitatea
Cluj face Rapid Bucharest, also on home turf. On Monday, FC Botoşani are pitted
against Petrolul Ploieşti, while Universitatea Craiova play Oţelul Galaţi.
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