The Romanian national team won decisively at the World Table Tennis Championship in Busan (South Korea): 3:0 against Canada (women) and 3:0 against Egypt (men).

Romania beat Canada (women) and Egypt (men) at the World Table Tennis Championship

• Women: Romania vs. Canada 3-0
  

Elizabeth Samara vs. Ivy Liao 3-1 (11-5, 13-11, 5-11, 11-6)

Bernadette Sox vs. Sue Jessie 3-0 (11-2, 11-6, 11-3)

Adina Diaconu vs. Natalie Chan 3-0 (11-1, 11-2, 11-8).

• Men: Romania – Egypt 3-0
  

Eduard Ionescu vs Omar Assar 3-1 (11-6, 10-12, 11-8, 11-9)

Ovidiu Ionescu vs. Youssef Abdel-Aziz 3-0 (11-7, 11-4, 11-6)

Darius Movilianu vs. Mohamed El-Beyali 3-1 (12-10, 11-8, 3-11, 14-12).

CM Table Tennis, women’s program of Romania

• 7 group

Romania vs. Sweden 3-0

Romania vs. Canada 3-0

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, Romanian men’s program

• 8 group

Romania vs. Portugal 0-3

Romania vs. Egypt 3-0

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.