{"id":123127,"date":"2022-12-09T11:39:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/sports-weekend-410-123127.html"},"modified":"2022-12-09T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T11:39:31","slug":"sports-weekend-410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-weekend-410-id123127.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The World&#13;<br \/>\nWeightlifting Championships are ongoing in Bogota, Colombia, this coming&#13;<br \/>\nweekend. In the women&#8217;s version of the competition, in the 55-kilogram&#13;<br \/>\ncategory, Andreea Cotruta came in 4th overall, with 194 kilograms,&#13;<br \/>\naccording to a Romanian Weightlifting Federation&#8217;s Facebook post. In the snatch&#13;<br \/>\nstyle Cotruta managed a deadlift of 87 kilograms and was 4th-placed.&#13;<br \/>\nIn the clean-and-jerk style, Andreea Cotruta came in 6th, with 107 kilograms.&#13;<br \/>\nSo far, Romania has won only one medal, as this past Tuesday, in the&#13;<br \/>\n49-kilogram category, Mihaela-Valentina Cambei won&#13;<br \/>\nsilver in the snatch style. The World Weightlifting Championships are the only official&#13;<br \/>\ncompetition that matters for the qualification to the 2024 edition of the Olympic&#13;<br \/>\nGames in Paris. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In news from men&#8217;s handball, on Thursday, in&#13;<br \/>\nthe Champions League, Dinamo Bucharest and Croatian opponents PPD Zagreb drew, 27-all.&#13;<br \/>\nDynamo&#8217;s most efficient scorer was Ukrainian Andriy Akimenko with 6 goals. Iranian-born&#13;<br \/>\nRomanian goalkeeper Saeid Heidarirad had no less than 17 interventions, with a&#13;<br \/>\nsave ratio standing at more than 40 percent. Dinamo Bucharest are 4th-placed&#13;<br \/>\nin group A, and next week Romanian title holders go against Hungarian opponents&#13;<br \/>\nVeszprem. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>In women&#8217;s handball, this coming weekend&#13;<br \/>\nwill see fixtures being played, counting towards the European Cups. In the Champions&#13;<br \/>\nLeague&#8217;s Group A, this coming Sunday in Budapest, CSM play Ferencvaros. Cristina&#13;<br \/>\nNeagu&#8217;s team is 2nd-placed the group, on a par with top-of-table&#13;<br \/>\nteam, Norway&#8217;s Vipers Kristiansand. In Group B, Rapid Bucharest play a home&#13;<br \/>\ngame against another Hungarian team, the current championship leader, Gyor, on&#13;<br \/>\nhome turf on Sunday. Romanian title holders Rapid are 4th-placed in Group&#13;<br \/>\nB, with two points less than the group&#8217;s top-of-the-table team. <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Also in news from women&#8217;s handball, EHF&#13;<br \/>\nEuropean League fixtures will also be played at the weekend. Three Romanian&#13;<br \/>\nteams play in the second round as part of the third preliminary round. On Saturday,&#13;<br \/>\nM\u0103gura Cisn\u0103die play a home game against Hungarian team Si\u00f3fok, the winning&#13;<br \/>\nteam of the first leg, 33 to 24. On Sunday, Ramnicu Valcea Municipal Sport Club&#13;<br \/>\n<a>Municipal<\/a> play a home game against Swedish team H\u00f6\u00f6r,&#13;<br \/>\nwhom they trounced last week away from home 31-24. Also on Sunday, Gloria Buz\u0103u&#13;<br \/>\nplay a home fixture against Hungarian opponents Mosonmagyar\u00f3v\u00e1r. Gloria need to come from behind and win, in the&#13;<br \/>\nwake of a 26-29 defeat in Hungary. The third preliminary round&#8217;s winning teams&#13;<br \/>\nwill play in the European League&#8217;s group stage early in 2023. next year.  <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>I<\/p>\n<p>n the Romanian Superleague in football, on&#13;<br \/>\nFriday, Sepsi Sf\u00e2ntu Gheorghe take on FC Voluntari. On Saturday, FC Hermannstadt&#13;<br \/>\nface Farul Constan\u0163a, with the fixture being hosted by the new stadium in&#13;<br \/>\nSibiu. Three matches are scheduled on Sunday, when Universitatea Cluj are&#13;<br \/>\npitted against UTA Arad, FC Boto\u015fani face CFR Cluj, while Chindia T\u00e2rgovi\u015fte play&#13;<br \/>\nFCSB. On Monday, in Craiova, one of the local sides, FC U Craiova go against FC&#13;<br \/>\nArges. On home turf, FC Mioveni&#13;<br \/>\nplay Universitatea Craiova. In the&#13;<br \/>\nround&#8217;s last fixture on Wednesday, Rapid Bucharest play Petrolul Ploie\u015fti. Farul&#13;<br \/>\nare at the top of the table, with 44 points. CFR Cluj&#13;<br \/>\nare the runner-up team, with 40 points. 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