{"id":6093,"date":"2025-07-29T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6093"},"modified":"2025-07-29T12:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T12:01:07","slug":"world-aquatics-championships-romanian-swimmer-david-popovici-takes-gold-in-200m-freestyle-race-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6093","title":{"rendered":"World Aquatics Championships: Romanian swimmer David Popovici takes gold in 200m freestyle race in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian swimmer <strong>David Popovici <\/strong>has won the gold medal in the 200-meter freestyle final at the World Championships in Singapore.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian athlete won with a time of 1:43.53, ahead of American Luke Hobson (1:43.84) and Japanese Tatsuya Murasa (1:44.54).<\/p>\n<p>Popovici entered the race with the fourth fastest time in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2024 European Championships, Popovici won the same race with a time of 1:43.13, and achieved a time of 1.44.72 in t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/david-popovici-gold-paris-olympics-july-2024\" target=\"_blank\">he same event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games<\/a>, again securing the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>He also won the 200m freestyle world title in 2022.<\/p>\n\n<p>(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cateyeperspective\/ Dreamstime<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romanian swimmer David Popovici has won the gold medal in the 200-meter freestyle final at the World Championships in Singapore.\u00a0 The Romanian athlete won with a time of 1:43.53, ahead of American Luke Hobson (1:43.84) and Japanese Tatsuya Murasa (1:44.54). Popovici entered the race with the fourth fastest time in the semifinals. At the 2024 [&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-6093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093","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=6093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}