News from canoeing, judo, women's volleyball and football
At the 2023 ICF Canoe Spring World Cup held in Szeged, Hungary, Romania won 3 medals. Cătălin Chirilă won the canoe single 500m and 1,000m races, and Ilie Sprincean and Oleg Nuţă won the canoe double 1,000m race. In the competition in Szeged, Romania was represented by 9 athletes, 2 women and 7 men, and came out 3rd in the medal table.
Romania has left empty-handed from the World Judo Championships in Doha, Qatar. The Romanian participants performed modestly, with the best result reported for Lucian Borş - Dumitrescu, who reached the eighth-finals of the 66 kg category. The last medals for Romania in a world judo championship were won in 2015, in Astana, Kazakhstan, by Andreea Chiţu, in the 52 kg category, and by Corina Căprioriu, in the 57 kg.
CSM Lugoj won their first Romanian cup in women's volleyball. The team from Lugoj Sunday won the final against CSM Târgovişte, 3-1, in Piteşti. In Saturday's semis, CSM Lugoj beat Volei Alba Blaj, the defending champions and trophy holders, 3-2. The athletes from Lugoj thus conclude a very good season, in which they won the Cup Winners Cup, the Romanian Cup and played the Challenge Cup final.
This weekend saw matches counting towards the play-off / play-out stage of Romania's football SuperLeague, round 8. In the play-off, Rapid Bucharest drew at home against Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe, 0-all. Another tie, 1-all, came on Saturday in the match pitting Universitatea Craiova against Farul Constanţa. On Sunday, in the derby of this round, played on the National Arena in Bucharest in front of a crowd of over 40,000, FCSB beat CFR Cluj 1-0. Top of the standings at present are Farul, with 47 points, followed by FCSB, one point behind.
In the play-out matches, on Friday FC Botoşani defeated Voluntari on home turf, 2-0. On Saturday, Hermannstadt beat Petrolul Ploieşti 1-0, and Universitatea Cluj outplayed Chindia Târgovişte, 2-0. On Sunday, UTA Arad won 2-0 against Mioveni, and FC U Craiova defeated FC Argeş, 2-1. CS Mioveni is certain to be relegated to a lower league, one round before the end of the play-out stage, while struggling to avoid relegation are also FC Argeş, with 21 points, and Chindia, with 22. In the last round, this coming Friday, FC Argeş take on Petrolul Ploiesti, and Chindia face FC Voluntari. (AMP)
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