Paralympics Paris: Gold in Judo for Romanian Alex Bologa, bronze for Camelia Ciripan in table tennis

Good performance for Roma at the Paralympics Games in Paris. Romanian judoka Alex Bologa won, on Friday, the gold at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games after an admirable fight, ended by ippon, against the athlete Yergali Shamey (Kaz), while Camelia Ciripan obtained a bronze medal in table tennis on Saturday.

Following this success, Alex Bologa became the second champion of Romania at the Paralympic Games in history, after Eduard Novak, the former Minister of Sports, won the gold medal in paracycling at the 2012 Paralympic Games in London. “Paralympic gold for Alex Bologa! The Romanian judoka won the gold at the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games after an admirable fight, ended by ippon, against the athlete Yergali Shamey (Kaz). Score 10-0. Bravo, Alex! congratulations, after two bronze medals at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 came the gold! Congratulations, coach Tamas Gergely!”, according to the Facebook post of the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee.

For Bologa (28 years old), this is the third medal at the Paralympic Games, after the two bronze medals obtained in 2016, in Rio (category 60 kg), and in 2021 in Tokyo (category 60 kg), according to Agerpres. Sportsman trained by Gergely Tamas, Bologa has four consecutive European titles, being European and world champion en titre.