Romanian star swimmer David Popovici won the gold medal on Thursday, April 10, in the 200m freestyle event at the National Swimming Championships in Otopeni.<\/p>\n
Popovici won with a time of 1:45.07, more than 5 seconds ahead of Eric \u0218tefan Andrie\u0219. Third place was taken by Robert Andrei Badea (1:50.85).\u00a0<\/p>\n
The race was David\u2019s first 200m event since the Olympic Games in Paris<\/a>, where he finished with a time of 1:44.72 to win the gold medal.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a very good time. It\u2019s very close to the time I had at the Olympic Games. I had no expectations regarding time, but I swam as fast as I could today. And it was pretty fast,\u201d said Popovici, cited by GSP.ro<\/a>.<\/p>\n The medal comes just one day after David Popovici won the 50m freestyle event with a time of 21.83 seconds.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhat I achieved yesterday made me even happier, because I really wanted this, to be the first in history to go under 22 seconds in the 50m event, under 47 in the 100, and under 1:43.00 in the 200. And this achievement makes me very happy,\u201d the swimmer said.<\/p>\n