Two new bronze medals for Romania

Women's gymnastics team of Romania, Cătălina Ponor, Sandra Izbaşa, Larisa Iordache, Diana Chelaru , Diana Bulimar, won the bronze medals Tuesday at the Summer Olympics in London, with a total score of 176,414 in the team final.

Gold was won by the United States team (Jordyn Wieber, Kyla Ross Douglas, Gabrielle, Alexandra Raisman, McKayla Maroney) with 183,596 points.

Russia (Ksenia Afanaseva, Anastasia Grişina, Viktoria Komova, Alia Mustafina, Maria Paseka) had to be content with the silver medal after gathering 178,530 points, even if Anastasia Grişina and Ksenia Afanaseva having missed the last executions at floor.

The last rotation that evolved from our gymnasts was on vault.

After the third rotation, the Romanian team was in third place.

The first two places were occupied by the USA and Russia.

But for Romania following vault.

After the first two rotations of the women's final in gymnastics, Romania occupies the fourth position in the rankings.

In the third rotation, the Romanian team competed at floor.

The order after two rotations in the finals at the gymnastics team at the Olympics in London was as follows: 1. USA-92.931, 2. Russia, 3.-92.532 Canada-87.273, 4. Romania-86.714, Japan-80.765.5.

Romania competed in the first two rotations at uneven bars , our weakest apparatus , and the beam.

Photo: Larisa Iordache at beam Source:Reuters.

Women's gymnastics team of Romania played Tuesday evening at 18.30, the final that qualified in the fourth place with 176.264 points.

Eight teams qualified for the final are: USA 181.863 points, Russia 180.429 , China176.637, Romania 176.264, United Kingdom 170.656, Japan 170.196, Italy168.397 and Canada 167.696 .

In qualifying on Sunday, Romania has not managed a competition too good on the floor and especially on the uneven bars, but they recovered from the vault and beam, and with a total of 176.264 points, it was ranked number 4 in the finals, winning the qualification of 31 July.

Romanian gymnasts qualified for the four Olympic finals- at floor, women's beam , vault and individually-composed after the Sunday evening at the Olympic Games in London.

Individually-composed, from which the first 24 qualify, gymnasts, Larissa Iordache accidentată, who competed finished in 9th place (57.800 points), and Sandra Izbaşa-11th place (57.532).

On the floor, qualified Sandra Izbaşa-2nd (15.066), and Cătălina Ponor-7th place (14.600).

In the women's beam final, Romania will be represented by Cătălina Ponor-7th place (15.033) and Diana Bulimar-qualified in 8th place (14.866).

In the vault final , our country will be represented by Sandra Izbaşa, qualified in second place (15.316).

Răzvan Martin won the bronze medal in weightlifting

Athlete Răzvan Martin, on Tuesday, won the bronze medal in the 69 kg category final, the fifth for the Romanian delegation at the Olympic Games in London.

Răzvan Martin, aged 20 years, managed to lift 152 kg in snatch after the three attempts, having the second performance, after the leader Qingfeng Lin (China).

At clean and jerk , Martin raised 177 and 180 pounds, trying for the last time at 182 pounds, even though not being able to pass on the Chinese, who had already 7 kilograms in addition to the total.

The weightlifter from Cluj missed the last test, and with a total of 332 pounds he won the Olympic silver medal.

The Olympic gold was claimed by Qingfeng Lin (China), with 344 kilograms, while the silver Medal was won by Indonesian Triyatno Triyatno 333 kg.

Romania has returned to the podium at the Olympic men's weightlifting after 16 years.

Translated by
Denisse-Meda Bucura
MTTLC, Bucharest University