Sports Roundup
A roundup of the main sporting events.
Florin Orban, 25.09.2023, 13:45
Romanian tennis player Ana Bogdan won Saturday the WTA tournament in Parma, Italy. Seed no. 2, Bogdan defeated in the final Anna Karolina Schmiedlova of Slovakia, 7-5, 6-1.
This past weekend was not the best one for the womens handball teams representing Romania in the Champions League. On Saturday, CSM Bucharest lost at home, 23 to 27, to the Hungarian team Győr. The Romanian champion is, after three stages, in 5th place in Group A, with 2 points, after one win and two defeats. Rapid Bucharest also had one win and two defeats, in Group B. The Romanian vice-champion was defeated, in Bucharest on Sunday by the Danish team Ikast, 35 to 27. With two points, Rapid is 6th placed in the group.
Romania did not manage to win any medals at the World Wrestling Championships in Belgrade and none of its athletes managed to qualify to the Olympic Games in Paris following this competition. Romania participated in the competition in Serbia with 16 athletes.
American fencer Zander Rhoades won the foil event of the Tudor Petruş Memorial, a satellite tournament of the World Cup, held on Sunday in Timisoara. She defeated the Italian Carlotta Ferrari in the final, 15-11. Romanian Emilia Corbu and the Ukrainian Alina Poloziuk came next.
Over the weekend, matches counting for the 10th stage of the Romanian Superleague championship were held. On Friday, Oţelul Galati beat FC U Craiova 2-0 away. Also away and also with 2-0, Farul Constanţa beat Dinamo Bucharest. On Saturday, Poli Iaşi won in Voluntari 2-1, then FC Botoşani ended the match played on home turf with UTA in a tie, with two goals each. The last match of the day, between Universitatea Cluj and Universitatea Craiova, held in Cluj, ended in a draw: 1 – 1. No goals were scored Sunday in the match pitting Petrolul Ploiesti against Hermannstadt. On Sunday, FCSB beat Sepsi in Sfântu Gheorghe, 5-2. Monday, in Bucharest, the last game of the stage is taking place, pitting Rapid Bucharest against CFR Cluj. FCSB leads the ranking, with 25 points, followed by CFR with 19.
