Every two years, the European Table Tennis Union calendar features the individual European Championships. At the latest edition, held in 2024 in Linz, Austria, Bernadette Sz\u0151cs came very close to winning gold. She ultimately secured two silver medals, one in women\u2019s singles and another in women\u2019s doubles, where she competed alongside Sofia Polcanova, an Austrian player of Moldovan origin. This year, at the individual European Championships in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Romania again won two medals, this time two bronze medals. The pair made up of Bernadette Sz\u0151cs and Eduard Ionescu reached the podium in the mixed doubles, while the pair Bernadette Sz\u0151cs and Elizabeta Samara did the same in women\u2019s doubles. In the singles events, Bernadette Sz\u0151cs and Elena Zaharia were the furthest-advancing Romanian athletes, both reaching the quarter-finals. Following these results, Radio Romania International has designated Bernadette Sz\u0151cs the Athlete of the Week.<\/p>\n
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Bernadette Sz\u0151cs was born on March 5, 1995, in T\u00e2rgu Mure\u0219 (in central Transylvania). She began her sporting career at the age of 8. Success in cadet and junior competitions followed relatively quickly. Bernadette won several medals at European and world events, rapidly climbing the international rankings. In 2016, at the European Championships in Budapest, she secured third place in the mixed doubles alongside Ovidiu Ionescu. A year later, at the continental championships in Luxembourg, she won her first European title as part of the Romanian team. In 2018, in Montreux, Switzerland, she triumphed at the European Top 16 tournament, a competition reserved for the continent’s top players. A year later, in Nantes, France, she once again became a European champion with the Romanian team. In Munich, in 2022, she won the European title in women\u2019s doubles alongside the Austrian player of Moldovan origin, Sofia Polcanova, and earned a silver medal in the mixed doubles with Ovidiu Ionescu. At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, she was eliminated once again in the round of 16 in the singles event by Polcanova. In the mixed doubles event, she and Ovidiu Ionescu finished in 5th<\/sup> place. Last year, at the World Championships in Doha, Qatar, Sz\u0151cs and Polcanova won silver medals in the doubles event. (LS)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every two years, the European Table Tennis Union calendar features the individual European Championships. At the latest edition, held in 2024 in Linz, Austria, Bernadette Sz\u0151cs came very close to winning gold. She ultimately secured two silver medals, one in women\u2019s singles and another in women\u2019s doubles, where she competed alongside Sofia Polcanova, an Austrian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":841739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[152077,29308],"coauthors":[113302],"class_list":["post-1073265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-bernadette-szocs-2","tag-table-tennis"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n