Romania’s women’s eight (W8+) crew won the gold medals at the World Rowing Championships

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Romania’s women’s eight (W8+) crew won the gold medals at the World Rowing Championships in Racice, Czechia on Sunday.

Romania (Magdalena Rusu, Iuliana Buhus, Adriana Ailincai, Maria Tivodariu, Madalina Beres. Amalia Beres, Ioana Vrinceanu, Denisa Tilvescu, Victoria-Stefania Petreanu) dominated from start to finish, being clocked with a time of 06 min 01 sec 14/100, ahead of the Netherlands (06:05.04) and Canada (06:07.51).

Romania’s men’s eight (M8+) (Mihaita Tiganescu, Mugurel Vasile Semciuc, Florin Arteni, Constantin Adam, Marius Cozmiuc, Sergiu Bejan, Stefan Berariu, Florin Lehaci, Adrian Munteanu) ranked last, the sixth, with a time of 05 min 31 sec 30/100. Great Britain ranked first (05:24.41), followed by the Netherlands (05:25.52) and Australia (05:27.72).

Romania won four gold medals at the World Championships in the Czech Republic, on Friday through Ionela Cozmiuc, in lightweight women’s single sculls, on Saturday at men’s double sculls (Marius Cozmiuc and Sergiu Bejan), and on Sunday in women’s double sculls (Ancuta Bodnar and Simona Radis) and women’s eight.

The Romanian delegation raced in these championships with 11 boats and 35 athletes. The final tally was four gold medals, three fourth places and two sixth places.

In the medal ranking, Great Britain ranked first with 7 gold, 1 silver and 4 bronze, followed by Italy, 5-3-1, and Romania, 4-0-0.

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