Romania won no less than nine gold medals at the Under-23 European Rowing Championships in Edirne (Turkey), in the 11 Final A on Sunday in which it had crews.
Romania remains a force in world rowing. PHOTO: The Truth Archive
According to Agerpres, gold was won by the women’s four-frame crew with coxswains (Delia Mirabela Grădinăciuc, Iuliana Isabela Boldea, Estera Vîlceanu, Larisa Bogdan, Rucsandra-Ioana Bucşa), timed in 07 min 16 sec 35/100, followed at a distance by Italy ( 07:22.12).
A closer victory was achieved by the men’s four-frame crew with coxswains (Cristian-Vasile Nicoară, Ionuţ Pavel, Andrei Vatamaniuc, Sergiu Anfimov, Maria-Antonia Iancu), in 06 min 23 sec 40/100, followed by Denmark (06:25.84 ).
In the men’s double sculls, Andrei Mândrilă and Leontin Nuţescu won by a knife’s edge (06:36.63) in front of the Belarusian rowers (AIN – 06:37.99).
In the women’s doubles final, Daria-Ioana Dinulescu and Georgiana Blănariu clearly prevailed (07:24.39) in front of Poland (07:34.12).
Another gold medal was obtained in the women’s four-frame by Beatrice Piseru, Denisa Cristina Ailincai, Petruţa-Ionela Popa and Georgelia Stoica (06:52.92), who beat Poland (06:54.89).
Andrada Maria Moroşanu and Iulia Bălăucă achieved a comfortable victory in the women’s double rowing (07:04.35), in front of their rivals from Poland (07:10.78).
And in the women’s four sculls, Romania (Mariana-Laura Dumitru, Manuela-Gabriela Lungu, Emanuela Ioana Ciotău, Patricia Cireş) won (06:39.35) over Poland (06:41.27).
In men’s eight plus one, Romania (Costi-Daniel Neagoe, Andrei Hemen, Cristian-Vasile Nicoară, Ionuţ Pavel, Andrei Vatamaniuc, Sergiu Anfimov, Andrei Mândrilă, Leontin Nuţescu, Maria-Antonia Iancu) was faster by three seconds (05 :44.15) against Turkey (05:47.24).
In the similar female event, Romania (Daria-Ioana Dinulescu, Andreea Nicoleta Dinu, Ana-Maria Mătran, Larisa Bogdan, Delia Mirabela Grădinăciuc, Georgiana Blănariu, Estera Vîlceanu, Elena-Diana Suta, Rucsandra-Ioana Bucşa) won detached (06: 34.68) against Ukraine (06:46.15).
In the women’s single sculls, Bianca Camelia Ifteni narrowly missed the bronze medal, finishing fourth (07:40.89), ahead of the representatives of Switzerland (07:28.56), Russia (07:38.21) and Greece (07:39.00). .
In the men’s four frames, Romania (Sebastian Timiş, Andrei Hemen, Constantin Emanuele Sterea, Eduard Angel Moldovan) ranked last in Final A, six (06:20.49).
Antonel Avăcăriţei and Jan Andrei Bercea ranked fifth in Final B in men’s double rowing (06:44.42) and 11th overall.
In the men’s four oars, Dragoş Valentin Peia, Silviu-Marian Dumitriu, Ştefan Bogdan Moaleş and Ilie Lucian Aparaschivei finished sixth in Final B (06:35.82) and 12th overall.
Constantin Alexandru Roiu won Final C in men’s single sculls (07:22.27), finishing 12th overall.
Romania participated with 14 crews at the Under-23 European Championships, winning the most medals, nine.
