Rio Olympics: Romanian athletes results on day 2
- Gymnastics – Romanian artistic gymnast Catalina Ponor has advanced to the women’s beam final at the ongoing Rio 2016 Summer Olympic Games and will compete for a medal on August 15. Ponor won a score of 14.900 in qualification 2 round, finishing 5th in the final ranking. Ponor failed to qualify for the floor event final.
- Swimming – Robert Glinta, 19, has qualified for the 100m backstroke final, as he finished fourth in the semi-finals – 53” 34/100. In the 4x100m relay, the Romanian team made up by Alin Coste, Marius Radu, Daniel Macovei and Norbert Trandafir failed to qualify for the next round.
- Tennis – Andreea Mitu/Raluca Olaru are through to the last sixteen round of the doubles event, after defeating Timea Babos/Reka-Luca Jani (Hungary) 6-3, 6-4. In the singles event, Irina Camelia Begu was defeated by Nao Hibino (Japan) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in the first round. Andreea Mitu was defeated by Garbine Muguruza 2-6, 2-6 in the first round. The pair Irina Begu/Monica Niculescu also failed on Sunday to qualify for the second round.
- Judo: Andreea Chitu, 52 kg category, was defeated in the quarter-finals and then failed to capitalize in the retraining.
- Table tennis – European Champion Elisabeta Samara was defeated in the third round by World Champion Ning Ding (China) 4-0.In men’s event, Ovidiu Ionescu was fedeated by Marcos Freitas in the third round. Andrei Crisan is the only Romanian table tennis player still in the competition, in the third round, after defeating Emmanuel Lebesson (France) 4-3 (11-4, 4-11, 11-8, 9-11, 7-11, 11-9, 12-10).