Sports Roundup

A look at the latest events in sports

Florin Orban, 06.06.2023, 13:45

UTA Arad will be present in the Romanian Football Superleague next year
as well. In the second round of the play-off for a place in the first football
league, UTA secured a 5-1 win against Gloria Buzau after a goaless draw in the
first match. Dinamo Bucharest comes back to the first football league, after a
6-1 win against FC Arges. The score was 4-2 in the first game. Poli Iasi and
Otelul Galati have also become first leaguers.

Romania’s national eleven has gathered in Mogosoaia, close to Bucharest
for a training campaign before the EURO 2024 preliminaries. Our footballers are
taking on Kosovo in Pristina on June 16 and will next fly to Switzerland for a
match against the local side on June 19. After the victories obtained in March
against Andorra and Belarus, Romania ranks second in the first group of the EURO
2024 qualifiers, with the same number of points as Switzerland, namely six.

Last weekend, Romanian diver Constantin Popovici won the first round of
the Red Bull Cliff Diving held in Boston. The European en titre champion, Popovici
has thus started off on the right foot in the 2023 season of the aforementioned
contest. He obtained the highest number of points in the history of the
competition 492.90 for the four dives and the highest number of points in one
dive, 171. The other Romanian in the contest, Cătălin Preda, ranked eighth.

Daniela Stanciu obtained a clear win in the high jump event of Romania’s
International Athletics Championships held in Bucharest on Sunday. The Romanian
managed a jump of one meter and 96 centimeters, equaling her personal record in
2019. Federica Apostol also from Romania, came second with a jump of one meter
and 84 centimeters.

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