{"id":929355,"date":"2025-09-19T13:45:55","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/?p=929355"},"modified":"2025-09-19T13:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:54:35","slug":"sports-weekend-491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rri.ro\/en\/news-and-current-affairs\/sport\/sports-weekend-491-id929355.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only one athlete is still representing Romania at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Alin Firfiric\u0103 is the last chance of the Romanian delegation to a medal in Tokyo. He will participate in the discus throw event on Saturday. Romanian athletes have not made it to finals in the aforementioned competition yet.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Andreea Ana won bronze in the 55 kilogram category of the World Wrestling Championships in Zagreb. Another athlete close to the podium was Alexandra Anghel, but she was defeated in the match for the bronze medal of the 72 kilogram category by Zelu Li of China. The last Romanian athlete in the competition is Patrik Iulian Gordan, who will be fighting in the 87 kilogram category of the Greek-Roman event.<\/p>\n<p>The World Rowing Championships kicks off in Shanghai, China, on Sunday. For the first time in the competition\u2019s history the event will include mixed teams in the double scull and eights races. Rowers from Romania will be participating in five women and six men\u2019s races.<\/p>\n<p>European handball competitions for women have paused for a while and Romania\u2019s national side is capitalizing on this recess with two friendlies against the en titre champions, France<\/p>\n<p>The two sides met in Oradea, western Romania on Thursday, when France won 32-27, and will play the return game also in Oradea on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend will be seeing matches counting towards the 10<sup>th<\/sup> leg of the domestic football championship. On Friday, FC Boto\u0219ani takes on FCSB, while o Saturday, FC Arge\u015f plays Universitatea Cluj and O\u0163elul Gala\u0163i, Universitatea Craiova.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday Unirea Slobozia will be up against Petrolul Ploie\u015fti, CFR Cluj plays UTA and Rapid Bucharest will be playing Hermannstadt.<\/p>\n<p>The leg\u2019s last matches are to take place on Monday, when Csikszereda plays Metaloglobus and Dinamo takes on Farul Constanta. Craiova tops the table with 23 points, followed by Rapid with 19 and Dinamo with 18.<\/p>\n<p>(bill)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one athlete is still representing Romania at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo. Alin Firfiric\u0103 is the last chance of the Romanian delegation to a medal in Tokyo. He will participate in the discus throw event on Saturday. Romanian athletes have not made it to finals in the aforementioned competition yet. 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