Romanian Constantin Popovici has been named men\u2019s high diving winner at the 2025 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards, following a public vote that recognised his consistency and strong results across the international circuit. He secured 35.06% of the vote, according to the official announcement.<\/p>\n
The award comes after a season in which the 37-year-old delivered podium finishes across all major competitions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cornerstone of Popovici\u2019s campaign came at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, where he came out on top of a three-way battle for the bronze medal. After an uneven opening, the Romanian responded with a succession of high-calibre dives in the latter stages of the competition to climb onto the podium, securing third place with a huge score of 141.00 when it mattered most,\u201d said<\/a> the European Aquatics.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n He followed that performance with a second-place finish at the World Aquatics High Diving World Cup stop at Porto Flavia, confirming his status among the discipline\u2019s elite athletes.<\/p>\n Popovici also remained in the title race throughout the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series, eventually finishing second overall after consistent results at some of the circuit\u2019s most technically demanding venues.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n Spain\u2019s Carlos Gimeno finished second in the voting with 20.11%, followed by Italy\u2019s Andrea Barnaba with 19.72%. France\u2019s Gary Hunt placed fourth with 14.71%, while another Romanian diver, C\u0103t\u0103lin Preda, ranked fifth with 10.33%.<\/p>\n irina.marica@romania-insider.com<\/p>\n (Photo source: Europeanaquatics.org)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Romanian Constantin Popovici has been named men\u2019s high diving winner at the 2025 European Aquatics Athlete of the Year Awards, following a public vote that recognised his consistency and strong results across the international circuit. He secured 35.06% of the vote, according to the official announcement. The award comes after a season in which 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-8663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663","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=8663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}