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Romania a couple
\nof days ago has yet again confirmed it fully deserved the status it has earned
\namong Europe’s top-flight table tennis teams. As part of the European teams’
\nchampionships held in the Swedish city of Malmo, in the men’s version of the
\ncompetition, Romania reached as far as the round of 16, while in the women’s
\nversion of the event Romania won the silver medals, The latter’s performance is
\na reiteration of the team’s exceptional feat in Cluj-Napoca, in 2021.The
\nRomanian table tennis team’s record includes a couple of European titles, with the
\nmost recent one being won in France’s Nantes, in 2019. <\/span><\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

In 2023 in Sweden, the Romanian line-up was made of Bernadette Sz\u0151cs, Elizabeta Samara, Andreea Dragoman and Adina
\nDiaconu, who had no problem outclassing Croatia, Serbia
\nand Slovenia in the group stage. In the quarterfinals, Romanian succeeded a
\nhard-fought win against Spain, while in the semifinal the Romanian team
\ndefeated France. However, in the
\nfinal, Romania lost to Germany. For the Romanian team, Bernadette
\nSz\u0151cs put on the best performance, winning all the games she played until the
\nfinal, when he was defeated by the world’s number 10 table tennis player, Ying
\nHan. For her exceptional performance in Sweden and for her crucial contribution to the team’s winning the silver medal, Bernadette Szocs was designated the Athlete of the
\nweek by Radio Romania International.<\/p>\n


\n <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Bernadette Sz\u0151cs was born on March 5, 1995, in the central Transylvanian
\ntown of Targu-Mures. She took up table tennis at the age of 8. For Bernie, good
\nresults in the cadets and juniors’ competitions were quick to appear. Bernadette
\nwon several medals in European and world championships, climbing up according to world
\nrankings rather rapidly. In 2016, pairing up with Ovidiu Ionescu in the mixed
\ndoubles event as part of the European championships in Budapest, she came in 3rd.
\nIn 2017, at the European championships in Luxembourg, Bernadette Szocs won her
\nfirst European title with the team. In 2018, in Montreux, Switzerland she won
\nthe European Top-16 tournament, an event for Europe’s top-notch table tennis
\nplayers. In 2019 in Nantes, France, she became a European champion in the teams’
\ncontest. In Munich, in 2022, Bernadette Szocs won the women’s doubles European
\ntitle, jointly with Austrian player Sofia Polcanova, who
\nwas born in the republic of Moldova, Also in Munich, Bernadette Szocs won the mixed
\ndoubles’ silver medals, alongside Ovidiu Ionescu. Bernadette is 11th
\nplaced according to the as-it-stands world rankings. <\/p>\n

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