Romania ranked 4th in the medal standings at the World Junior Swimming Championships hosted by Lima, Peru. The Romanian delegation walked home with four gold medals, two silver and two bronze. The gold medals were won by the Romanian men's 4x100m freestyle team, made up of David Popovici, Alexandru Constantinescu, Ştefan Cozma and Patrick Sebastian Dinu, by David Popovici in the 200m and 100m freestyle events, and by Bianca Costea in the women's 50m freestyle event. The silver medals were won by Vlad Stancu in the 400m freestyle event and by the mixed 4x100m freestyle team made up of David Popovici, Patrick Sebastian Dinu, Rebecca Diaconescu and Bianca Costea. Both bronze medals were won by Vlad Stancu in the 800m and 1,500m freestyle events.
Sunday marked the start of the women's 50m freestyle final, where Bianca Costea had qualified. The Romanian athlete won the race in 25.35 seconds, ahead of Sara Curtis and Matilde Biagiotti of Italy, w
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School – Almost 3 million Romanian pupils and preschoolers will start school on Monday. Many changes mark the new school year. It will be structured into 5 modules, separated by 5 holidays. Mandatory tests are eliminated and the average mark obtained at the end of the secondary school is eliminated from the calculation of the admission-to-high-school average mark. Starting this year, end-of-module assessments are no longer mandatory, there will be only one average mark for each subject, and at the end of the year students can no longer be expelled. The Education Minister Sorin Cîmpeanu admitted that one of the problems of Romanian schools is the lack of fire safety certificates for many of them. Moreover, more than half of the educational units in the country, about 57%, do not have security services at the beginning of the school year.
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