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A look at the sports action this past weekend.

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, 23.09.2019, 13:45

Romania’s Loredana Toma on Sunday
won two bronze medals in the 64 kg category at the World Weightlifting
Championships hosted by Thailand, in the women’s total and snatch events. In
the snatch competition, Toma won the bronze with 112 kg. China’s Wei Deng won
the gold with 116 kg, and North Korea’s Un Sim Rim the silver with 114 kg.
Another weightlifter from Romania, Irina Lepşa, ranked fourth with 109 kg.
China’s Wei Deng also won the clean and jerk competition, with 145 kg, again
followed by North Korea’s Rim, with 137 kg and by Columbia’s Mercedes Isabel
Perez Tigrero in the third place with 137 kg. Toma finished fourth, with 128
kg, after two failed attempts at 127 kg. Lepşa finished in sixth place with 126
kg. Wei Deng ranked first in the women’s total with 261 kg, Rim came second
with 251 kg and Toma third with 240 kg. Lepşa was fifth with 235 kg.




The World Wrestling Championships
came to an end in Nur-Sultan, in Kazakhstan. Romania had 14 wrestlers in the
competition but won only one medal, a silver by Alina Vuc in the 50 kg
category.




We end this sports roundup with
football. The Romanian striker Adrian Petre scored a goal for his side Esbjerg,
who defeated Brøndby 3-1 on Sunday at home in the 10th leg of the
Danish football championship. Another Romanian international player, Bogdan
Stancu, scored the equalising goal for his side Gençlerbirliği against the
current leader Alayanspor, on Sunday at home in Ankara, in the Turkish
Championship.




In Romania, the weekend saw the
matches scheduled as part of the 10th leg of the First League. On
Friday, in Medias, Universitatea Craiova defeated the local side Gaz Metan 3-2.
On Saturday, Academica Clinceni defeated FC Voluntari 2-1 away; Sepsi Sfântu
Gheorghe defeated FC Hermannstandt 3-nil at home; and Astra won 3-2 at home in
Giurgiu. On Sunday, Chindia Târgovişte defeated FC Botoşani 3-nil away; and FCSB
Bucharest drew nil-all against CFR Cluj at home in what was the leg’s most
eagerly awaited match. On Monday, in the leg’s final match Viitorul Constanţa face
Politehnica Iaşi. CFR Cluj currently top the ranking with 21 points, followed
by Universitatea Craiova with 19.

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