The French city of Antony last week hosted the European Fencing Championships. Romania ended the competition in the eighth position of the nation\u2019s ranking with two medals. \u00a0Romania\u2019s saber team made up of Vlad Covaliu, George Dragomir, Radu Ni\u0163u and R\u0103zvan Ursachi won silver while in the individual saber event George Dragomir won bronze. Italy won the first position in the ranking with four gold, one silver and two bronze medals.<\/p>\n
The city of Cluj-Napoca saw the European U-21 Table Tennis Championships.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Bianca Mei-Ro\u015fu won gold in the women\u2019s singles after beating Slovenian Sara Tokic 4-1 in the finals. Iulian Chiri\u0163\u0103 also became gold medalist, after he and Anna Hursey of Wales had won the mixed doubles. Bianca Mei-Ro\u015fu and Ukrainian Veronika Matiunina walked away with silver from the women\u2019s doubles. Andrei Istrate and Nicole Arlia of Italy stepped onto the podium\u2019s third step in the mixed doubles and so did Darius Movileanu, in the men\u2019s singles.<\/p>\n
Now let\u2019s have a look at the latest from lawn tennis. On Sunday, Dan Alexandru Tomescu emerged as winner of the ITF tournament in Constan\u0163a, southeastern Romania, a competition with 15,000 dollars in prize money.<\/p>\n
In the finals he defeated his compatriot, Gabi Boitan, the odds-on favourite, who abandoned in the third set when it was 4-6, 6-3, 3-0 to Tomescu. This has been the third ITF title in Tomescu\u2019s career and the first this year.<\/p>\n
Romania\u2019s football side Universitatea Craiova on Sunday clinched a 7-1 win against the Austrian amateur side FC Stubai in the first match part of their training campaign in Austria, the Romanian champions announced on Facebook. Craiova will take on the Azerbaijani champions Sabah on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Romania\u2019s vice-champions, Universitatea Cluj, conceded defeat 2-1 to the U-19 selection of Croatia also in Austria on Sunday. \u00a0The team coached by Cristiano Bergodi will be up against the Hungarian side Ujpest Budapest on Saturday.<\/p>\n
(bill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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