Sports Roundup

The Romanian athlete Alina Rotaru was ranked 4th in the long jump event on Sunday at the international athletics meeting in Stockholm, the 4th leg of the Diamond League circuit. The athlete from CSM Bucharest jumped 6 meters and 59 centimeters. The winner of the competition was the Swedish athlete Khaddi Sagnia with 6 meters and 83 centimeters. In the men’s disc throw event Alin Firfirică ranked 7th with 61 meters and 14 centimeters, the winner being Daniel Staahl from Sweden with 69 meters and 17 centimeters.

Florin Orban, 24.08.2020, 13:38

The city of Cluj (northwestern Romania) hosted, on Saturday and Sunday, Romania’s International Athletics Championship which has reached its 65th edition. Florentina Iuşco, an athlete qualified to the Olympic Games in the long jump event, on Saturday won the triple jump event with 13 meters and 66 centimeters and Sunday she also won the long jump event with 6 meters and 43 centimeters.

Now news from football. The weekend saw the start of the Romanian First League matches. On Friday FC Botoşani defeated, away from home, FC Argeş 3-2 after leading the match with the score 3-0. On Saturday in Ovidiu, Viitorul Constanţa drew the match with UTA Arad 1-all. In Sfântu Gheorghe Universitatea Craiova defeated Sepsi1-0. And in Giurgiu, FCSB won the match against Astra 3-0.

On Sunday, Poli Iaşi defeated on home turf 1-0 the team Chindia Târgovişte, and CFR Cluj defeated in Clinceni, the local team Academica 2 – 1. Monday will see the last two matches of the leg: FC Voluntari will face Gaz Metan Mediaş and Dinamo Bucharest will be up against FC Hermannstadt.

We recall that the championship has a different format as compared to last year, with 16 teams instead of 14. At the end of the regular season, the first 6 teams will go in the playoffs and play each other in a round—robin competition in 10 legs. The rest of the teams up to the 16th-ranked one will continue the play-out, which means one single match in 9 legs. (tr. L. Simion)