{"id":4528,"date":"2025-04-09T13:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4528"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:01:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T13:01:51","slug":"romanian-fencer-amalia-covaliu-wins-gold-at-world-championship-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4528","title":{"rendered":"Romanian fencer Amalia Covaliu wins gold at World Championship in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romanian athlete Amalia Covaliu won the gold medal in the women’s sabre event on Tuesday, April 8, at the Wuxi 2025 Junior & Cadet World Championships in China.<\/p>\n

Amalia did not compete in the first round, and in the second round she defeated another Romanian, Amelie Pescaru, 15-7. In the third round she won the duel against South Korean Dahui Moon, 15-5. She then beat Hungarian Boglarka Komjathy in the round of 16, overcame US fencer Brynnley McKee in the quarterfinals and bested China\u2019s Xuanyi Zhang in the semifinals, according to G4Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To win the gold, Covaliu defeated Chinese athlete Qimiao Pan in the final with a score of 15-14.<\/p>\n

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The bronze medals went to Xuanyi Zhang and Eunchae Jang. Amelie Pescaru placed 58th, and Sofia Corl\u0103tescu finished in 81st place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The day before, Amalia Covaliu ranked 10th in the junior women’s sabre event, and her older brother, Vlad Covaliu, won the silver medal in junior men’s sabre.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the cadet men’s sabre event, Romanian Michael Ene ranked fifth after losing in the quarterfinals to Russian Iaroslav Borisov, 8-15. Radu Matei placed 20th, and Rare\u0219 Munteanu finished 97th. The world title was won by American Emilio Paturzo Gonzalez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Cadet and Junior Fencing World Championships are taking place from April 7\u201315 in Wuxi. Amalia and Vlad are the children of COSR President Mihai Covaliu.<\/p>\n

radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

(Photo source: CS Dinamo on Facebook)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romanian athlete Amalia Covaliu won the gold medal in the women’s sabre event on Tuesday, April 8, at the Wuxi 2025 Junior & Cadet World Championships in China. Amalia did not compete in the first round, and in the second round she defeated another Romanian, Amelie Pescaru, 15-7. In the third round she won the […]<\/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-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","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=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}