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Romanian rowers Adriana Ailincai and Iuliana Buhus have taken third place in Final B of the women s coxless pair event which took place, on Thursday, during the Tokyo Olympic Games, as well as 9th place overall in the event.
In Final B, taking place on Thursday at the Sea Forest Waterway, Romania finished the race in 7 min 01 sec 02/100.
In the final standings of the women s coxless pair event, Romania took 9th place.
Buhus has on her track record a European gold medal (2020), two European silver medals (2018, 2021) and an 11th place at the 2018 World Championships.
Ailincai has thus far taken two European titles (2018, 2020), two European silver medals (2019, 2021), as well as 5th and 6th place at the World Championships in 2018 and 2019, respectively.
Sursa foto: worldrowing.com
President of the Romanian Rowing Federation Elisabeta Lipa declared today, as she welcomed the Romanian team back from the European Rowing Championships in Varese (Italy), that their results give her hopes for the Olympic Games in Tokyo, where the Romanian rowers will produce pleasant surprises . They have been in training camp for 4 and a half months in Italy and I can tell you that these athletes are heroes for having endured so many months in the training camp; I congratulate them for how they behaved and on their performance in the European Championships. It was an extremely difficult competition with many very well trained athletes. The great happiness for us was that the vast majority of the crews can rightly dream of medals at the Olympic Games. To me, the Romanians silver medals are just as good as gold and I congratulate them for how they competed. I believe in an exceptional result at the Olympic Games. At these European championships Romani
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