Sports roundup

The Romanian football side Sepsi OSK Sfântu Gheorghe won Romania's Cup Winners' Cup after beating CFR Cluj 2-1 in Arad on Saturday. For the central-Romanian club established in 2011, this was the second trophy won this year after Romania's football Cup. The coach of the team, Cristiano Bergodi of Italy, had already won this trophy in 2007, with Rapid Bucharest.

Adrian Păun of the Cluj side, winners of this year's edition of the national championship, was the first to score, the second minute of the match. Sepsi's equalizer came via  Cosmin Matei, in the first half's overtime, and Mario Rondon (Venezuela), who ironically enough had played for CFR Cluj until the summer of 2021, scored the winning goal for Sepsi on 85 min.

Romania won 9 medals at the European Junion Swimming Championships held in Otopeni, near Bucharest. Of them, 5 were gold medals, won by the men's 4x100m freestyle relay team, by David Popovici in the 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle finals and by Vlad Ştefan Stancu, in the 1,500m freestyle race. Silver medals went to the 4x100m freestyle medley team, to Bianca Costea in the women's 50m freestyle final and to Vlad Stancu, in the 400m and 800m freestyle races. Romania thus came 3rd in the nations' ranking, after Hungary and Poland.

At the Lucerne Regatta counting for the 3rd stage of this year's World Cup, Romanian athletes won 6 medals, of which one gold, two silver and three bronze. Romania came first in the women's double sculls, thanks to Olympic champions Ancuţa Bodnar and Simona Radiş. Romania's women's pairs and women's four races, as well as the women's 8 team, won bronze medals.

In rugby, Romania defeated Uruguay, 30-22 on Sunday, in a test match in Montevideo. Romania scored 3 tries and 3 conversion kicks, and was also awarded 3 penalty kicks. Romania had one player, Tudor Butnariu, sent out of the field on 13 minutes for a reckless tackle. Next Sunday, the 2 teams will play a second test match, also in Montevideo. (AMP)