Romanian athlete Georgeta Popescu has
\nwalked away with gold from the one-woman bobsleigh race at the Youth Winter
\nOlympics in Laussane. Popescu’s time in the two rounds of the competition stood
\nat 2 minutes, 26 seconds and 84 hundredths. Viktoria Cernanska of Slovakia came
\nsecond and Celine Harms of Germany ended the race on the third position. <\/p>\n
Another athlete from Romania Antonia
\nSarbu came 13th in the same competition. This is the second medal
\nwon by the Romanian delegation after the bronze reaped by Ramona Ionel in the
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Romanian women’s side Magura
\nCisnadie came a cropper 33-22 in an away match against Danish side Kobenhavn
\nHandball. Cisnadie has lost all the matches they played in the competition’s
\ngroups. In the same group, Siofok of Hungary ended in a 30-all draw their match
\nagainst the Croatians from Podravka Koprivnica. <\/p>\n
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Siofok ranks first in the group’s
\nranking with five points followed by Koprivnica also with five, Kobenhavn with
\ntwo and Cisnadie with no points. Cisnadie will be playing Kobenhavn again on
\nJanuary 26th, which will also see the return game pitching Podravka
\nagainst Siofok. <\/p>\n
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In group C Gloria Bistrita-Nasaud
\nhas lost to another Danish side Odense Handbold 19-25 in an away game.
\nHungarian side ERD has secured a 29-24 win against MKS Lublin of Poland. Odense
\ncomes first in the ranking with 6 points, followed by ERD with 3, Bistrita with
\n2 and MKS with one. Gloria will be up against Odense in a home game on January
\n26th, while the Polish side will be playing on their own turf the
\nHungarians from ERD. <\/p>\n
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Romanian tennis player Sorana
\nCirstea has qualified for the second round of Australian Open, the year’s first
\ngrand slam tournament, after a 6-2, 7-6 win against the Czech challenger
\nBarbora Strycova. Cirstea’s next opponent will be the young US player Cori
\nGauff, who comes after a 7-6, 6-3 win against Venus Williams. <\/p>\n
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Another three Romanians are on the
\ncompetition’s main draw; Simona Halep, who will be up against Jennifer Brady of
\nthe US, Irina Begu, who will be playing Kiki Bartens of the Netherlands and
\nMonica Niculescu, who will take on Alize Cornet of France. <\/p>\n
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