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At the Junior World Gymnastics Championships in Manila, Philippines, the Romanian athlete Alexia Bl\u0103naru won the bronze in vault on Sunday. She scored an average 13.566 points, and was only outperformed by the US athlete Lavienna Crain, with 13.683, and the Japanese athlete Misa Nishiyama, with 13.633. In the teams\u2019 competition, Romania came out 5th<\/sup>, while in the individual all-around event Alexia Bl\u0103naru ranked best, in 13th<\/sup> place, while Aniela Tudor ranked 21st<\/sup>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Romania won the 55th<\/sup> edition of the Carpathian Trophy in women’s handball, held in Bistri\u0163a. The Romanian players won all 3 games they played in the competition: 40-28 on Thursday against Portugal, then 37-30 on Saturday against the Czech Republic, and 37-28 on Sunday against Austria. The tournament was a final rehearsal for the World Championship in Germany and the Netherlands, which begins this week. Romania will compete in Group A, alongside Denmark, Japan and Croatia.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In rugby, Romania finished its autumn test match series with a defeat. The \u201cOaks\u201d were defeated in Bucharest by Uruguay, 31-21. In the other 2 games, Romania beat Canada 31-21 two weeks ago, then was defeated by the US, 26-18 last week.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Over the weekend, games in the 17th<\/sup> round of Romania\u2019s football Super League took place. On Friday, in Miercurea Ciuc, Csikszereda beat Unirea Slobozia 2-1, then in Mioveni, Universitatea Craiova won against FC Arge\u015f with the same score. On Saturday, Universitatea Cluj won the match in Arad against UTA 2-0, and the game in Bucharest between FCSB and Petrolul ended in a 1-1 draw. The first match on Sunday, pitting O\u0163elul against Farul Constan\u0163a in Gala\u0163i, also ended in a draw, 2-2. Then, in Sunday\u2019s derby, in Cluj, CFR defeated Rapid Bucharest 3-0. On Monday, the last two games of this round: Metaloglobus vs Hermannstadt and FC Boto\u015fani vs Dinamo. Rapid currently lead the standings with 35 points, followed by Boto\u015fani and Craiova, with 32 points each. (AMP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the Junior World Gymnastics Championships in Manila, Philippines, the Romanian athlete Alexia Bl\u0103naru won the bronze in vault on Sunday. She scored an average 13.566 points, and was only outperformed by the US athlete Lavienna Crain, with 13.683, and the Japanese athlete Misa Nishiyama, with 13.633. In the teams\u2019 competition, Romania came out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":723688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40940],"tags":[180873,31942,29134,29455,29572,29243,42174,32498,34883,35436],"coauthors":[113302],"class_list":["post-955034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-carpathian","tag-championships","tag-football","tag-gymnastics","tag-handball","tag-rugby","tag-superleague","tag-test","tag-trophy","tag-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n