Romania secured 5 gold medals at the 2026 Balkan Cyclo-Cross Championship, held at the Cantacuzino Flore\u0219ti Estate in Prahova County, on an iconic course that has previously hosted many other Romanian Cup rounds and National Cyclocross Championships.<\/p>\n
Overall, Romanian riders won five Balkan champion titles, six Balkan runner-up titles, and five bronze medals.<\/p>\n
The Balkan champion titles were won by Luca Bodareu (ACS Evergreen Cycling Team, Elite category), Wendy Bunea (ACS A Pedal Forward, women’s Elite), \u015etefan Mihai Bocsan (CS MyAcademy Adventures Timi\u015foara, men’s U17), Ana V\u0103duva (ACS Strong Bike, women’s U17) and Milan Bartha (ACS A Pedal Forward, men’s U19).<\/p>\n
J\u00f3zsef Attila Malnasi (CSM Unirea Alba Iulia, men’s Elite), Miruna M\u0103da (CSM Unirea Alba Iulia, women’s Elite), Kor\u00e9h Tam\u00e1s (CS Olimpia Bucure\u015fti, men’s U17), Zs\u00f3fia Tak\u00e1cs (ACS Peak Performance, men’s U17), Roland Szigyarto (ACS A Pedal Forward, men’s U19) and Brigitte Belu (CSM Constan\u0163a, women’s U19) took second places.<\/p>\n
The bronze medals were won by Lorenzo-\u015etefan C\u0103tan\u0103 (CSM Media\u015f, men’s U19), Denisa-Maria Marcus (CSM Media\u015f, women’s U19), David Alexandru Stroe (CS MyAcademy Adventures Timi\u015foara, men’s U17), Radu Marian M\u0103da (CSM Unirea Alba Iulia, men’s Elite) and Giulia Andreea P\u00eervu (ACS Velocitas, women’s Elite).<\/p>\n
In addition to local teams, participants from North Macedonia, Greece, Moldova, Serbia and Bulgaria also competed.<\/p>\n
Romania concluded a season full of medals, 49 in total, won at all the Balkan Championships held this year: Road (four gold, one silver, eight bronze), MTB XCO (three gold, one silver, three bronze), MTB XCM (one gold, two silver and two bronze), DHI (three gold, two silver, three bronze).<\/p>\n
\u201cWith this event, we conclude the Balkan calendar. In 2026, Romania has collected 49 medals in total, including 16 gold, 12 silver, and 21 bronze. I thank our partners at 2be Group and the Cantacuzino Flore\u015fti Estate for organizing and hosting this wonderful event. In less than a month, we will return to Vatra Dornei, where the European Cyclocross Championships for Youth and Masters will take place,\u201d said C\u0103t\u0103lin Sprincean\u0103, president of the Romanian Cycling Federation and vice-president of the Balkan Cycling Union, as cited by News.ro<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Romania secured 5 gold medals at the 2026 Balkan Cyclo-Cross Championship, held at the Cantacuzino Flore\u0219ti Estate in Prahova County, on an iconic course that has previously hosted many other Romanian Cup rounds and National Cyclocross Championships. Overall, Romanian riders won five Balkan champion titles, six Balkan runner-up titles, and five bronze medals. The Balkan […]<\/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-12656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656","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=12656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}