{"id":6136,"date":"2025-07-31T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2025-07-31T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T12:01:01","slug":"world-aquatics-championships-romanian-swimmer-david-popovici-claims-gold-in-100m-freestyle-race-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=6136","title":{"rendered":"World Aquatics Championships: Romanian swimmer David Popovici claims gold in 100m freestyle race in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>David Popovici<\/strong> has won the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle final at the World Championships in Singapore. It is his second win at the event, after the gold medal in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/david-popovici-gold-200m-singapore-jul-2025\" target=\"_blank\">200-meter freestyle race two days ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Romanian swimmer finished the race with a time of 46.51 seconds, ahead of Jack Alexy, who finished the race in 46.92 seconds, and Australian Kyle Chalmers, who had a time of 47.17.<\/p>\n<p>He previously won the 100-meter freestyle races at the 2022 European Championships in Rome, the 2022 World Championships in Budapest, and the 2025 U-23 European Championships in Samorin. At the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, he won the bronze medal in the same race.<\/p>\n\n<p><em>(Photo: Colette Rochefort\/ Inquam Photos)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Popovici has won the gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle final at the World Championships in Singapore. It is his second win at the event, after the gold medal in the 200-meter freestyle race two days ago. The Romanian swimmer finished the race with a time of 46.51 seconds, ahead of Jack Alexy, who [&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-6136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136","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=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}