{"id":906378,"date":"2025-07-07T13:45:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T10:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=906378"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T08:04:31","slug":"sports-round-up-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-round-up-13-id906378.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports round-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Let\u2019s begin with swimming. Romania won five medals at the European Junior Swimming Championships hosted by <\/span>\u0160amor\u00edn, <span lang=\"en-US\">in Slovakia. Two of them are gold, won by <\/span>Robert Badea <span lang=\"en-US\">in the 400 m individual medley race, and <\/span>Daria Sili\u0219teanu, <span lang=\"en-US\">in the 100 m backstroke; one silver, again from Badea in the 200 m individual medley; and two bronze, from <\/span>Daria Sili\u0219teanu <span lang=\"en-US\">in the 50 m backstroke and <\/span>Claudia Prisecariu <span lang=\"en-US\">in the 200 m backstroke. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\">To Wimbledon next for the third Grand Slam tennis tournament of the year. In the women\u2019s doubles, <span lang=\"en-GB\">Sorana C\u00eerstea a<\/span>nd<span lang=\"en-GB\"> Ana Kalinskaia <\/span>qualified for the quarterfinals. They defeated the all-Russian pair, <span lang=\"en-GB\">Mirra Andreeva a<\/span>nd<span lang=\"en-GB\"> Diana <\/span>Sh<span lang=\"en-GB\">naider, <\/span>seeded fifth, in three sets <span lang=\"en-GB\">4-6, 7-6, 6-1. C\u00eerstea <\/span>and her doubles partner thus won 87,000 pounds and 430 WTA points. They will next face the fourth seeds<span lang=\"en-GB\"> Su-wei Hsieh <\/span>of Taiwan and <span lang=\"en-GB\">Jelena Ostapenko <\/span>of Latvia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\">It\u2019s news from rugby next. Romania\u2019s national rugby side began their training tournament in South America with a defeat. They lost on Saturday to Chile 40-16. Romania\u2019s scorers were <span lang=\"en-GB\">Toni Maftei, <\/span>Tudor Boldor and Alin Conache. Romania will next face Uruguay on 12<sup>th<\/sup> July in <span lang=\"en-GB\">Montevideo <\/span>and Argentina on 18<sup>th<\/sup> July in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\">In cycling, the Sibiu Cycling Tour, now in its 15<sup>th<\/sup> year, was won by the American road cyclist <span lang=\"en-GB\">Matthew Riccitello. <\/span>The last leg of the competition was an individual time trial that took place on Sunday in the historic centre of Sibiu and was won by Britain\u2019s <span lang=\"en-GB\">Callum Thornley.<\/span> The highest ranked Romanian cyclist was Denis Piciu, who finished in 22<sup>nd<\/sup> place, 8 minutes and 34 seconds behind the winner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\" lang=\"en-US\">Let\u2019s end with news from football. The new season got under way on Saturday with the Romanian Super Cup final between the trophy holders FCSB and the winners of the Romanian Cup, CFR Cluj. FCSB won the match 2-1, thanks to the goals scored by <span lang=\"en-GB\">Dennis Politic <\/span>48 minutes into the match and <span lang=\"en-GB\">Risto Radunovi\u0107 <\/span>in added time. <span lang=\"en-GB\">Alin Fic\u0103 <\/span>scored for CFR Cluj on minute 65. On Wednesday, FCSB will play their first match in the Champions League qualifiers, at home, against the Andorran champions <span lang=\"en-GB\">Inter Club d\u2019Escaldes. <\/span>CFR Cluj will play away against the Hungarian side <span lang=\"en-GB\">Paks <\/span>in the first Europa League qualifying round. A new edition of the Romanian Super League will get under way at the end of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s begin with swimming. Romania won five medals at the European Junior Swimming Championships hosted by \u0160amor\u00edn, in Slovakia. Two of them are gold, won by Robert Badea in the 400 m individual medley race, and Daria Sili\u0219teanu, in the 100 m backstroke; one silver, again from Badea in the 200 m individual medley; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":795559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[28907],"coauthors":[113302],"class_list":["post-906378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sports round-up - Radio Romania International<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-round-up-13-id906378.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sports round-up - Radio Romania International\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Let\u2019s begin with swimming. 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