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The week that has just ended brought Romanian athletes as many as 11 medals. Four of them came at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, held in Leipzig, Germany, while 7 others were won by the rowing team taking part in the European Championships that came to a close in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.<\/p>\n
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The last Romanian gymnast to win 4 individual medals at a European Championship was Larisa Iordache, 12 years ago in Moscow. In this year’s competition in Leipzig, the performance was replicated by Ana Maria B\u0103rbosu. She was 3rd<\/sup> in the all-around and uneven bars events, 2nd<\/sup> on beam and the best in Europe on floor. She narrowly missed out on a 5th<\/sup> medal, with the Romanian team, which finished fourth in the nations\u2019 finals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ana’s performance confirms her status as the best Romanian gymnast in recent years and the only medallist in last year’s Olympic Games in Paris, where she won bronze on floor. Her result in Leipzig comes exactly 50 years after the first great performance of Romanian gymnastics in a European Championship. In May 1975, in Skien, Norway, Nadia Com\u0103neci took part in top-level international competitions for the first time, and won the European gold in the all-around, vault, uneven bars and beam events, while also ranking second on floor.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The second competition in which Romanian athletes had a stellar performance last week took place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The Romanian team won 7 medals, of which 3 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze. The first day of the finals, Saturday, was also the richest, with 6 medals. Magdalena Rusu and Simona Radi\u0219 won the first European title in the women’s double sculls, with a new European record. Romania’s men’s double sculls team, namely Florin Arteni and Florin Lehaci, also broke a European record. A 3rd<\/sup> gold medal was brought by the men’s four-sculls crew, made up of \u0218tefan Berariu, Sergiu Bejan, Andrei M\u00e2ndril\u0103 and Ciprian Tudos\u0103.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the men’s double sculls, Olympic champions Andrei Cornea and Marian Enache won the silver, as did the women’s 4-sculls crew, comprising Adriana Adam, Maria Lehaci, Ancu\u021ba Bodnar and Amalia Bere\u0219. In the women’s double sculls, Andrada Moro\u0219anu and Mariana Dumitru, who represented Romania for the first time at a top-level competition, won the bronze. The last bronze medal for the Romanian team came on Sunday thanks to Mihai Chiru\u021b\u0103 in the men’s singles event.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Also on Sunday, we were expecting a medal from the women’s 8+1 crew, which has dominated international competitions for years and is the defending Olympic champion. However, the girls missed the podium, arriving seven seconds behind Great Britain, the winning boat. In the end, with the 7 medals it won, Romania came out third in the nations\u2019 hierarchy, after the British and German teams. (AMP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The week that has just ended brought Romanian athletes as many as 11 medals. Four of them came at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships, held in Leipzig, Germany, while 7 others were won by the rowing team taking part in the European Championships that came to a close in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":894048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37738],"tags":[171188,31942,33587,36940,29455,33971,30416,28907],"coauthors":[113302],"class_list":["post-894345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-the-news","tag-ana-barbosu-en","tag-championships","tag-european","tag-european-aquatics-championships","tag-gymnastics","tag-plovdiv","tag-rowing","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n