David Popovici, 18, world and European swimming champion, will take the baccalaureate exam for Olympic athletes on Tuesday in Valencia de Munte.

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A special session of the baccalaureate examination is organized annually, and only high school graduates who participate in Olympic teams and international sports and art competitions, or who take the entrance examination for the military academies of the United States of America in the same period as the examination. for him, the national baccalaureate is 2023, June-July session.

The exam tests will take place in Prague, in Vălenii de Munte, during the next two weeks, News.ro reports.

David Popovici, two-time European and world champion in the summer of 2022

David Popovici won two gold medals at the European Swimming Championships in Rome in August 2022, our athlete was unstoppable in the 100m freestyle and also in the 200m freestyle.

We will remind you that in June 2022, David Popovich made a double at the World Swimming Championships in Budapest, having managed to demonstrate himself at the distances of 100 m freestyle and 200 m freestyle.

During the entire World Swimming Championships, only one athlete managed to win the 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle events from the same edition.

It happened 49 years ago, and the person celebrating this feat is called Jim Montgomery (USA – he is now 67 years old). That year, the competition was hosted by Belgrade.