Sports Roundup

A roundup of the weekend's main sporting events

Florin Orban, 02.10.2023, 13:45

Romanian gymnast Andrei
Muntean has qualified for the Olympic Games in Paris next year after ranking
30th in the individual all-round qualifiers of the World Gymnastics
Championships in Antwerp. This will be his second participation in the Olympics
after the edition in Rio in 2016. Unfortunately no athlete from our delegation played
in the finals of the present edition of the World Gymnastics Championship and Romania’s
team has again failed to qualify for the Olympics, ending the competition in
the 22nd place.

We move to women’s
handball now as in the Champions League Group B, Rapid Bucharest ended in a
24-all draw their away game against Hungarian side Ferencvaros on Saturday.
Rapid ranks sixth in the group with 3 points out of 4 games.

In Group A on
Sunday, CSM Bucharest secured a 41-26 win against Swedish champions Savehof and
are presently ranking fourth in the group with 4 points. The Champions League
resumes in three weeks.

In the European
League, Romanian side Dunarea Braila has qualified for the third preliminary
round after a 30-14 home win against Valur Reykjavik of Iceland. Dunarea also
won the away game 30-29 and will be up against German side Borussia Dortmund in
the third preliminary round. The first game will be an away one for the
Romanians on November 11th or 12th and the second game in Braila on November
18th or 19th. Borussia Dortmund ended the previous edition of the
aforementioned competition in the third position.

At the World Rugby
Cup underway in France, Romania’s national rugby side has registered their
third defeat in a row. Our players came a cropper against Scotland 84-nil on
Saturday. Romania also lost to Ireland 82-8 and 76-nil to South Africa.

Let’s move on to
football now. Last weekend saw the matches of the 11th leg of Romania’s
Superleague. On Friday Otelul Galati secured a 1-nil home win against Dinamo
Bucharest, while on Saturday in Arad, western Romania, local side UTA ended in
a goaless draw their match against FC Voluntari. On their own turf, Farul
Constanta, clinched a 2-1 win against Sepsi. On Sunday in Craiova,
south-western Romania local side Universitatea obtained a 5-1 win against FC
Botosani, while the match in Sibiu, central Romania, pitching the local side
Hermannstadt against Rapid Bucharest ended in a draw, one-all. In Cluj, western Romania, the local team CFR outperformed FCU Craiova 1948 2-nil. FCSB tops the ranking with 25 points followed
by CFR with 22.

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