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Romanian swimmer Robert Glinta, 22, has won on Sunday a second medal in the 50 backstroke event, in the first FINA Champions Swim Series circuit, worth USD 3 million, of the International Swimming Federation. He registered 24.59 seconds,…

On the last competition day, Zhao Ruozhu and Liu Yukun (China) establish a new record to finish atop the podium at the World Cup Rifle and Pistol in New Delhi, India. Team China 2 (Zhao Ruozhu and Liu Yukun) secured the brightest medal…

Romanian player Ovidiu Ionescu has won the silver medal in the men's singles single European Table Tennis Championships in Alicante (Spain) on Sunday after being defeated in the final by the well-known German player Timo Boll 4- 1 (6-11,…

World Champion in 200 meters backstroke in 1998 and Olympic vice-champion in 2000, Roxana Mărăcineanu, born in 1975 in Bucharest, has been appointed Minister of Sports in the French Government on Tuesday, replacing Laura Flessel. Roxana…

Romanian swimmer Robert Glinţă won the silver medal on Saturday in the 50 meters backstroke at the European Swimming Championships 2018, in Glasgow, being timed in 24 sec 55/100. The gold medal was won by Russian Kliment Kolesnikov, in…

Romanian Ana Maria Popescu has lost the final of the the epee individual women event of the World Fencing Championships taking place in Wuxi (China), after she has been defeated by Italian Mara Navarria, winning thus the silver medal. It…

Romanian judoka Alexandra Pop (48 kg) has won the second place at the Grand Prix in Tunis last weekend, the Romanian Judo Federation informs. In the last sixteen round Pop defeated Kimberley Renicks (UK), in the quarter-finals she…

Romanian athlete Alin Alexandru Firfirica won on Monday the silver medal in the men’s discus throw event at the 2017 Summer Universiade in Taipei, Taiwan. Firfirica managed the best result in the qualifying, namely 61.98 m. In the…

Romanian wrestler Andrei Dukov has won the silver medal in the 57 kg free style category on Tuesday night at the European Wrestling Championship in Novi Sad (Serbia) after being defeated in the final by Georgian Azerbaijani Ghiorghi…

Simona Dumitrescu, the first Romanian woman racing in the North Pole Marathon 2017, ranked second and grabbed the silver medal. The marathon is the northernmost marathon in the world, acknowledged by the Guinness World Records. Simona…