With less than one year before the Olympic Games in Paris, a series of competitions
\nis underway enabling all athletes to get plane tickets to the world’s most
\nprestigious sporting event. One suchlike competition was the European Judo Cup hosted
\nby the city of Malaga in Spain last weekend.<\/p>\n
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The event brought together 355 athletes
\nof 35 countries, 211 in the men’s competition and 144 in the female’s contest.
\nThe best Romanian performance was obtained by Alexandru Matei, who became winner
\nin his category of 60 kilograms and has also reaped Radio Romania International’s
\ntitle, Athlete of the Week. <\/p>\n
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In Malaga, Matei first outperformed Mateo Garcia Vicente of Spain. In
\nthe round of sixteen he defeated Nordine Adrif of Britain and Jesse Weizenegger
\nof Switzerland in the quarters. In the semifinals, the Romanian won against
\nPortuguese Emerson Silva, and defeated Bart Weling of the Netherlands in the
\nfinals. <\/p>\n
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Alexandru Matei was born on October 22, 2002, in Caransebe\u015f, western
\nRomania. He obtained his first performance in the cadets section of the World
\nCup in Berlin in 2019. He became bronze medalist in the same cadets section of
\nthe European championship in Warsaw and silver in the Youth Olympics in Baku,
\nAzerbaijan. After the pandemics, in
\n2022, he won bronze in the European Cups in Athens and Malaga plus a silver
\nmedal in the similar contest in Paks, Hungary. The best result last year was
\nthe bronze medal he obtained in the Under-23 championships in Sarajevo. In the Francophony
\nGames hosted by Kinshasa this year Matei came second in the 60 kilogram
\ncategory. <\/p>\n
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