{"id":1009630,"date":"2026-04-23T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T10:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=1009630"},"modified":"2026-04-23T12:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T09:53:22","slug":"sports-flash-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-flash-262-id1009630.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the European Weightlifting Championships, currently underway in Batumi, Georgia, Romania has won five medals so far. In the women&#8217;s 53-kilo category, Mihaela Cambei won the gold in the snatch and the silver in the clean and jerk and overall. In the 63-kilo category, Andreea Cotru\u021ba won the silver medal in the snatch, while in the men&#8217;s 79-kilo category, also in the snatch, Tiberiu Donose took the bronze.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian tennis player Elena Gabriela Ruse qualified on Wednesday for the second round of the WTA 1000 tournament in Madrid. She defeated Antonia Ru\u017ei\u0107 6-3, 4-6, 6-0 in the first round. It was Gabriela&#8217;s third consecutive victory in head-to-head matches against the Croatian player. For this win, the Romanian secured a EUR 31,585 check and 35 WTA points. In the second round, she will face Elena Rybakina of Kazakhstan, seed no. 2. The Moscow-born player has won both games played so far against Ruse, in 2022 in Miami and in 2024 at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the final of the Romanian women&#8217;s volleyball championship, the overall score is 1-1. In the first game, on Monday, Alba Blaj defeated CSO Voluntari at home, 3-1, while the second match, also played in Blaj, on Tuesday, was won by Voluntari, 3-0. The next two games are scheduled in Voluntari next week, on Monday and Tuesday. The final will be played in the \u201ebest of five games\u201d system.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Records were broken on Wednesday at the Romanian National Swimming Championships, which are currently taking place in Otopeni. In the men&#8217;s 200-m medley, Robert Badea set a new Romanian record, with a time of 1.58.86 minutes. In the women&#8217;s 100-meter backstroke, Daria Sili\u0219teanu was the first Romanian athlete to break the one-minute barrier, and the new record she set is 58.63 seconds. Also in Otopeni, the multiple world and Olympic champion David Popovici won the 50-meter freestyle event, with 22.02 seconds, a performance below the current Romanian record, 21.83 seconds, also held by David Popovici. 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