Swimmer David Popovici on Wednesday won the bronze medal in the 100m Olympic race. The winner of the race was China\u2019s Chan Zhanle, who set a new world record 46 seconds and 40 hundredths of a second. The runner-up competitor was Australia\u2019s Kyle Chalmers, who clocked 47 seconds and 48 hundredths of a second. David Popovici came in third, with a timing of 47 seconds and 49 hundredths of a second. For David, it was the second medal he scooped as the ongoing edition of the Olympic Games in Paris, having won gold in the 200m race. <\/p>\n
In rowing, Florin Arteni and Florin Lehaci also on Wednesday advanced to the men\u2019s double sculls final. Arteni and Lehaci already won the first semi-final. The Romanian crew had the lead three quarters of the race and hit the finish line two seconds earlier than the British crew. The final is scheduled on Friday. Romania last won a men\u2019s double sculls Olympic medal in Tokyo, in 2021. Back then the silver medal went to Marius Cozmiuc and Ciprian Tudos\u0103.<\/p>\n
Also qualifying to the final was the lightweight women\u2019s pair, made of Gianina van Groningen, nee Beleag\u0103, and Ionela Cozmiuc. On Wednesday, the Romanian crew succeeded a laid-back win of the second semifinal, arriving more than a second earlier than the Greek crew and also succeeding the best timing of the semifinals. The final is scheduled on Wednesday. In the lightweight women\u2019s pair, Romania last won an Olympic medal in 2004 in Athens, when the gold medal went to Angela Alupei and Constan\u0163a Burcic\u0103.<\/p>\n
Also on Friday, the finals are scheduled, of lightweight women\u2019s double sculls, with Ioana Vr\u00eenceanu and Roxana Anghel representing Romania. Vrinceanu and Anghel on Wednesday came in second in the first semifinal. Romania last won a lightweight women\u2019s double sculls Olympic medal in Beijing in 2008. Back then Georgeta Andrunache and Viorica Susanu won gold. <\/p>\n
Romania\u2019 s representatives in table tennis have all been eliminated from the individual competitions. The last Romanian table tennis player to have competed individually, Bernadette Sz\u0151cs, was eliminated in the round of 16. 5th-seeded Szocs was defeated by the 15th-seeded competitor in Paris, Moldovan-born Austrian player Sofia Polcanova, 4- nil. We recall that in the mixed doubles, pairing up with Ovidiu Ionescu, Bernadette Szocs came in 5th.Romania will carry on fighting in the nations\u2019 competition, taking on India in the round of 16, on August 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Swimmer David Popovici on Wednesday won the bronze medal in the 100m Olympic race. The winner of the race was China\u2019s Chan Zhanle, who set a new world record 46 seconds and 40 hundredths of a second. The runner-up competitor was Australia\u2019s Kyle Chalmers, who clocked 47 seconds and 48 hundredths of a second. David […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":750611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[34027,41921,30416,36542],"coauthors":[116693],"class_list":["post-795253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-finals","tag-lightweight","tag-rowing","tag-swimming"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n