{"id":10740,"date":"2026-06-22T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10740"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:00:53","slug":"romanian-table-tennis-player-bianca-mei-rosu-wins-gold-at-european-u21-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10740","title":{"rendered":"Romanian table tennis player Bianca Mei-Ro\u015fu wins gold at European U21 Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian table tennis player <strong>Bianca Mei-Ro\u015fu<\/strong> won the gold medal on Sunday, June 21, in the women\u2019s singles event at the European U21 Championships in Cluj-Napoca, central Romania.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old Romanian won her first three matches in Group 4, with a score of 3-0, without losing a single set, then won 4-0 in three other matches in the second stage of the groups, to enter the main draw. Afterwards, she defeated Mille Stoffregen (Denmark) 4-2 in the first round, followed by a 4-0 victory against Natalia Bogdanowicz (Poland) in the quarter-finals. In the semi-finals, Bianca secured a 4-2 win against Zuzanna Wielgos (Poland), according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news.ro\/sport\/tenis-de-masa-bianca-mei-rosu-e-campioana-europeana-u21-la-simplu-ea-a-obtinut-si-argintul-la-dublu-1922404621012026061822488785\">News.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the final, Bianca Mei-Ro\u015fu defeated Slovenia\u2019s Sara Tokic 4-1 and won the gold medal, becoming the European champion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfident in her own strengths and in the game she proposed, the Romanian athlete started the match excellently and won the first two sets. Although the Slovenian player found solutions in the third set, Bianca Mei-Ro\u0219u remained focused and managed the decisive moments of the final. The suspense was maintained until the end in the last two sets, but the Romanian had clarity in her shots and security in her arm in the important points, for 4-1 (11-8, 11-8, 5-11, 13-11, 13-11) and the U21 European title,\u201d the Romanian Table Tennis Federation said.<\/p>\n<p>The victory brought Bianca her second European medal, after the silver medal in the women\u2019s doubles event, alongside Ukrainian Veronika Matiunina. The two only lost to the Alexandra Chiriacova (Moldova) \/ Sara Tokic (Slovenia) pair in the final, 2-3.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Romanian athletes won a total of five medals at the competition held in Cluj-Napoca. Gold medals were won by Bianca Mei-Ro\u0219u in the women\u2019s singles event, as well as by the pair Iulian Chiri\u021ba and Anna Hursey (Wales) in the mixed doubles event.<\/p>\n<p>Silver medals were obtained by Bianca Mei-Ro\u0219u and Veronika Matiunina (Ukraine) in the women\u2019s doubles event.<\/p>\n<p>Bronze medals went to Andrei Istrate and Nicole Arlia (Italy) in the mixed doubles event, as well as to Darius Movileanu in the men\u2019s singles event.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:radu@romania-insider.com\">radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Bianca Mei Rosu on Facebook)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian table tennis player Bianca Mei-Ro\u015fu won the gold medal on Sunday, June 21, in the women\u2019s singles event at the European U21 Championships in Cluj-Napoca, central Romania. The 19-year-old Romanian won her first three matches in Group 4, with a score of 3-0, without losing a single set, then won 4-0 in three other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}