Six Romanian fencers, three women and three men, will compete in the fencing competition in Differdange, Luxembourg, April 26 and 28, the last qualifi.
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Attention-grabbing
in 2021 was, among other things, the retirement of several top-flight Romanian athletes.
Among them, fencer Ana-Maria Popescu, tennis player Horia
Tecau as well as gymnasts Larisa Iordache and Marian Drăgulescu.
For the fifth time
running, in 2021 Ana-Maria Popescu has been designated the world s best epee
fencer. According to the final rankings, Ana-Maria Popescu was again at the top
of the table. In the last confrontation of her career, in early December, Ana Maria
Popescu came in 2nd at the MK Fencing Academy International Epee
Cup, a World Cup stage event held in Dubai. Ana-Maria Popescu made her
retirement public immediately after the contest.
Lovers of fencing
know her as Ana-Maria Branza. She was born on November 26, 1984 in Bucharest. Ana
Maria first compelled recognition when she stepped onto the third step of the
podium at the World Seniors Championships held in 2002 in Lisbon. Ana-Maria was only 18 back then. All hopes were
p
Fencer Ana-Maria Popescu is the only Romanian
athlete to have walked away with a medal in an individual sports discipline, in
this past summer s Tokyo Olympics. As of late, the Romanian fencer has yet
again confirmed her standing as this past Saturday the defending Olympic
champion won the silver medal in the World Epee Cup in Dubai, Reason enough for
Radio Romania international to designate Ana-Maria Popescu the Athlete of the
week.
In the United Arab Emirates, as part of the MK
Fencing Academy International Epee Cup s group stage, Ana-Maria s trail included
wins in the confrontations against UAE challengers Sheikha Al-Zaabi, Fajr
Al-Marzooqi and Afra Abdalla, as well as against Ananya Navalekar of Great Britain.
Ana maria Popescu then fought straight in the quarterfinals, where she had no
problem outclassing Zainab Al-Hosany, also from UAE However, in the final, Ana
maria Popescu was defeated, by the narrowest of margins, 14-15, by Estonia s Kristina
Lehis, so th