{"id":123496,"date":"2023-05-30T11:29:26","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T11:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devrri.freshlemon.ro\/news-and-current-affairs\/newsflash\/athlete-of-the-week-155-123496.html"},"modified":"2023-05-30T11:29:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T11:29:26","slug":"athlete-of-the-week-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/athlete-of-the-week-155-id123496.html","title":{"rendered":"Athlete of the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <span style=font-size: 1em;>At the World Rowing Championships held in Bled, Slovenia, the Romanian delegation&#8217;s overall record was made of five gold medals and one silver medal. On Saturday, the Romanian women&#8217;s four rowing crew, made of M\u0103d\u0103lina Bere\u015f, Maria Tivodariu, Magdalena Rusu and Amalia Bere\u015f walked away with gold. Also on Saturday, the Romanian delegation&#8217;s only silver medal went to the men&#8217;s coxed eight crew, made of Mih\u0103i\u0163\u0103 \u0162ig\u0103nescu, Ciprian Tudos\u0103, Florin Arteni, Mugurel Vasile Semciuc, Marius Cozmiuc, Sergiu Bejan, \u015etefan Berariu, Florin Lehaci and Adrian Munteanu.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, Ionela Cozmiuc won gold in the lightweight women&#8217;s single sculls, while Ioana Vr\u00eenceanu and Roxana Anghel won the world title in the women&#8217;s pair. Olympic champions Ancu\u0163a Bodnar and Simona Radi\u015f won yet another gold medal in women&#8217;s pair event. The Romanian delegation concluded the competition also winning gold in women&#8217;s coxed eight event. The winning crew was made of Magdalena Rusu, Roxana Anghel, Adriana Adam, Maria Tivodariu, M\u0103d\u0103lina Bere\u015f, Amalia Bere\u015f, Ioana Vr\u00eenceanu, Simona Radi\u015f and Victoria-\u015etefania Petreanu. According to the nations&#8217; competition, Romania came in second, while Great Britain was at the top of the table.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>All medalists at the 2023 edition of the European Championships fully deserve the title of Athlete of the week. Spoiled for choice as it may be, Radio Romania International opted for designating Ionela Cozmiuc the Athlete of the week, for her exceptional feat in the individual event she won. Halfway through the race, Cozmiuc was third placed, yet her comeback was exceptional; Ionela Cozmiuc won the race, setting a new European record, with a timing of 7 minutes, 32 seconds and 43 hundredths of a second.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ionela Cozmiuc was born on January 3rd, 1995 in northern Romania&#8217;s C\u00e2mpulung Moldovenesc. She is 1.78-meter tall and weighs 57 kilograms. Ionela is signed up by Dinamo Bucharest sports club. Her international record includes the 8th place she won at the Rio Olympics in 2016, and the 6th-place at the Tokyo Olympics in in 2021. Ionela Cozmiuc is a two-time world champion, in Sarasota, the USA, in 2017 and in Bulgaria&#8217;s Plovdiv, in 2018. 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