Four gold medals for Romania at the Balkan Youth Championships

At the end of the Team’s Events Romania clinched all four gold medals at the Balkan Youth Championships in Bulgaria’s Albena. It is the last test for the tams in Balkan Region before the start of the European Youth Championships in Belgrade in less than two weeks.

In Junior Boys Team’s event in the final Romania’s Andrei TOMICA Matei DUMITRESCU Paul SZILAGYI and Horia URSUT overcame Turkey’s Ugurcan DURSUN Hakan ISIK Mehmet Ali KARABOGA and Furkan SİMSEK YIGIT. Greece clinched bronze with the team composed of Efraim MANOLOPOULOS EUSTRATIOS Alexandros MADESIS Vissarion GIANNOUTSOS SOKRATIS and Iakovos AIVATIDIS.

In Junior Girls Team’s Event in wining Romania’s team have played Elena ZAHARIA Camelia MITROFAN Evelyn UNGVARI and Andrea TEGLAS. In the final Romania beat Serbia. Team of Serbia was represented by Sara RADAK Reka BEZEG Katarina GVOZDENOVIC and Dusica TODOROVIC. Moldova’s Valeria VIERU Alexandra CHIRIACOVA and Camelia MERENCO.

In cadet Boys Event Romania’s Rares CUESDEAN Luca OPREA and Robert PODAR are the winners. Uros NINKOVIC and Borislav RAJIC led Serbia to the silver. Bulgaria is third with Yoan VELICHKOV Stefan DIMITROV Mirolsav SCHMIDT and Lyudmil DIMITROV .

 

Cadet Girls Event concluded with the win of the Romania’s team composed by Bianca MEI ROSU Cristina SINGEORZAN and Alesia SFERLEA. They overcame Turkey with Busra DEMİR and Aybuke Banu and Asude Tuba SİMSEK. Moldova’s Victoria MIHAILOV and Ecaterina SIREAC are third.

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