Romanian athlete
\nBianca Pascu on Saturday won bronze in the saber event of the World Fencing
\nChampionship. The Romanian was outperformed in the semifinals by Ukrainian Olga
\nHarlan, who also became the gold medalist. <\/p>\n
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Sunday saw the
\nend of the women’s tennis Open, a WTA competition with 250 thousand dollars in
\nprize money. The singles event was won by Elena Rybakina of Kazahstan, who
\noutperformed Patricia Tig of Romania 6-2, 6-0 in the finals. The doubles
\ncontest was won by a pair made up of Viktoria Kuzmova of Slovenia and Kristina
\nPliskova of the Czech Republic who defeated the all-Romanian pair Jaqueline
\nCristian\/Gabriela Ruse 6-4, 7-6.<\/p>\n
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Let’s now have a
\nlook at the latest in football. Romanian international Nicolae Stanciu on
\nSunday scored his first official goal for Slavia Praga who secured a 5-1 away
\nwin against FK Teplice in the second leg of the Czech football championship.
\nAlso on Sunday, another Romanian, Bogdan Mitrea scored for his side, Spartak
\nTrnava, which beat Sered 2-0 in a home match counting towards the first leg of
\nthe Slovakian championship. <\/p>\n
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Last weekend saw
\nseveral games counting towards the second leg of the Romanian football
\nchampionship. On Friday in Targu Mures, central Romania, local side Gaz Metan
\nsecured a 2-0 win against FC Hermannstadt. Then in Ploiesti, southern Romania,
\nViitorul Constanta defeated the newly promoted Chindia Targoviste 1-0. On
\nSaturday, FC Botosani clinched a 4-1 home win against FC Voluntari and so did
\nCFR Cluj against the newly promoted Academica Clinceni. <\/p>\n
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On Sunday Poli
\nIasi obtained a 1-0 win in their home match against Astra Giurgiu. The leg’s
\nderby was hosted by the National Arena in Bucharest where local side Dinamo
\nBucharest received Universitatea Craiova. The game ended 2-0 to the visitors
\nand during the match, Dinamo’s headcoach Eugen Neagoe fainted and had to be carried
\nto a hospital. <\/p>\n
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