Romania won gold in the women’s 8+1, at the European Rowing Championships in Szeged

Romania won the women’s gold medals in the queen’s rowing event, 8+1, on Sunday, at the European Championships in Szeged (Hungary).

Romania (Magdalena Rusu, Roxana Anghel, Adriana Adam, Maria Lehaci, Mădălina Bereş, Amalia Bereş, Ioana Vrînceanu, Simona Radiş, Victoria-Ştefania Petreanu), who was in second place in the 500 and 1,000 meters, then took the lead and won with a time of 06 min 32 sec 00/100, in front of the crews from Great Britain (06:35.16) and Italy (06:37.41).

Also on Sunday, Andrada-Maria Moroşanu ranked fourth in the women’s single sculls event, with a time of 08 min 37 sec 65/100. The victory went to the Serbian Jovana Arsic (08:23.42), the silver was won by the German Alexandra Foester (08:28.16), and the Czech Alice Prokesova (08:34.97) took the third place.

Romania finished second in the final standings, with eight medals, four gold, two silver and two bronze, ahead of Great Britain (8-1-1), but finishing ahead of Italy (2-3-3) , of Norway (2-0-1), of Germany (2-5-1), etc.

On Saturday, Romania won three medals, one gold, one silver and one bronze. The gold of the tricolors was obtained in the double rowing, light category (Gianina van Groningen and Ionela Cozmiuc), the silver was won in the women’s four sculls (Mădălina Bereş, Maria Lehaci, Magdalena Rusu and Amalia Bereş), and the bronze in the men’s 8+1 ( Mihăiță Șigănescu, Ciprian Tudosă, Constantin Adam, Mugurel Vasile Semciuc, Florin Arteni, Sergiu Bejan, Ştefan Berariu, Florin Lehaci, Adrian Munteanu).

On Sunday, Ioana Vrînceanu and Roxana Anghel won gold in the women’s double sculls, Andrei-Sebastian Cornea and Marian Enache prevailed in the men’s double sculls, the third gold medal being obtained in the women’s 8+1 (Magdalena Rusu, Roxana Anghel, Adriana Adam, Maria Lehaci, Mădălina Bereş, Amalia Bereş, Ioana Vrînceanu, Simona Radiş, Victoria-Ştefania Petreanu), Florin Arteni and Florin Lehaci won silver in the men’s double sculls, and Ancuța Bodnar and Simona Radiş won the bronze in the women’s double sculls .

Romania qualified 12 crews in the medal finals out of the 13 that Szeged sent.

At the 2023 edition of the European Championships, held in Bled (Slovenia), Romania won six medals, including five gold and one silver. Source: Agerpres