The women’s team of Romania defeated the team of Sweden with a score of 3:0 in the first match of the seventh group of the World Team Table Tennis Championship in Busan (South Korea).

Romania, a 3-0 win over Sweden at the World Table Tennis Championships

Bernadette Shox vs Christina Kalberg 3-0 (11-8, 11-8, 11-7)

Elizabeth Samara vs. Linda Bergstrom 3-0 (11-5, 11-9, 13-11)

Adina Diaconu vs Philippa Bergand 3-0 (13-11, 11-9, 13-11).

CM Table Tennis, women’s program of Romania

• 7 group

Romania vs. Sweden 3-0

Romania – Canada / Saturday, 03:00

Romania – Singapore / Sunday, 06:00

Romania – Serbia / Monday, 10:00.

The women’s team consists of Bernadette Shox, Elizabeth Samara, Andrea Dragoman, Adina Diacona, Elena Zacharia, trainers Viorel Filimon, Michaela Steff and physiotherapist Petruc Gice.

CM Table tennis, Romania, men’s program

• 8 group

Romania – Portugal / Friday, 13:00

Romania – Egypt / Saturday, 06:00

Romania – Thailand / Sunday, 13:00

Romania – Iran / Tuesday, 06:00.

The team consists of Ovidiu Ionescu, Eduardo Ionescu, Darius Movilianu, Andrej Istrate, Julian Chirica, trainers Andrej Filimon, Ionuc Seni and physiotherapist Adrian Mirza. The Romanian delegation also includes a psychologist: Mioara Shinkan.

Know:

• 40 women’s and men’s teams take part in the competition. The World Team Championship is a qualifying criterion for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the top eight teams will have direct qualification for the Olympics.

• The winners of the groups will advance directly to the 1/8 finals, and the 2nd and 3rd place teams will advance to the 1/8 finals.

• At the last two World Cups in 2018 (Halmstad, Sweden) and 2014 (Tokyo, Japan), the women’s national team took fifth place, writes Agerpres.