Last week has been one of stellar
\nperformances for Romanian sports. Whether it was swimming, athletics, table
\ntennis or water sports, our athletes have grabbed important awards after years
\nof subpar results. Last week started with David Popovici winning gold in the
\n200m freestyle event at the European Swimming Championships in Rome. The
\ndefending world champion in this event, Popovici won the race in 1 minute, 47
\nseconds and 97 hundredths, setting a new world and European record for junior
\ncompetitions as well as a new local record. Adding to this medal was the 100m
\nfreestyle gold medal won a couple of days earlier, when David Popovici also
\nbroke the world record.<\/p>\n
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In athletics, Romania had last won a
\ngold medal 20 years ago, more specifically in 2002, when Ionela T\u00eerlea won the
\n400m hurdle race in Munich. Also in Munich, last Wednesday, Bianca Ghelber won
\ngold in the hammer throw final at the European Championships, with a throw
\nmeasuring 72.72 meters, 60 centimeters above the runner-up Ewa Rozanska of
\nPoland. At the Tokyo Olympics last year as well as at the World Championships
\nof July this year, Bianca Ghelber had ranked 6th .<\/p>\n
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In table tennis, Bernadette Sz\u0151cs
\nwon gold in the women’s doulbes jointly with Sofia Polcanova of Australia, an
\nathlete born in the Republic of Moldova. On Thursday, they defeated the
\nall-Romanian pair Elizabeta Samara \/ Andreea Dragoman in the final. Another
\nathlete from Romania, Adina Diaconu, won bronze jointly with Maria Xiao of
\nSpain. Let us further note that Sz\u0151cs won silver in the mixed doubles with
\nOvidiu Ionescu. Bernadette Sz\u0151cs had previously won the European gold in
\nLuxembourg in 2017, and in Nantes in 2019 in the team event.<\/p>\n
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At the European Multisport Championships
\nin Munich, C\u0103t\u0103lin Chiril\u0103 won gold in 1000m single canoe race. Then, on
\nSunday, he won bronze in the 500m race. Chiril\u0103 thus matched the performance of
\nFlorin Mironcic, who won gold in the 1000m race and silver in the 500m race at
\nthe European Championships in Racice, the Czech Republic. (VP) <\/p>\n
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