Romania’s women’s gymnastics team has qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics after finishing 10th in World Championship qualification.

Romanian women’s gymnastics teamPhoto: Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD / AFP / Profimedia

The Romanian women’s gymnastics team is returning to the Olympic Games after 12 years

The tricolor team on Monday finished the qualifying match with a total of 157.795 points (vaults – 40.099, bars – 39.132, bars – 38.965 and floor – 39.599), with which it took 10th place and qualified for the Olympic Games. But not in the final of the World Championship in Antwerp, in which the first eight will perform, that is, the USA, Great Britain, China, Brazil, Italy, Holland, France, Japan.

Ana Maria Berbosu with 52,932 points reached the final of the individual competition (19th place), and Sabrina Maneka Voynya with 13,666 reached the final (8th place).

Know:

  • For the Paris Olympics, 9 teams have qualified for the qualifiers in Antwerp, joining the three that have already qualified for 2022, ie USA, Great Britain, Canada, in the top 12 and Monday night’s competition.
  • The Romanian women’s national team, which has 12 Olympic medals, including three gold, last participated in the 2012 Olympic Games, when it won a bronze medal with Catalina Ponor, Sandra Izbasha, Larisa Iordake, Diana Bulimar, Diana Celaru.
  • In the men’s category, Romania will have only one representative at the 2024 Olympic Games, gymnast Andrej Muntian, who qualified for Paris under the FIG criterion, according to which the first 8 athletes in the individual ranking who did not qualify from the team will participate in the Olympic Games next year. Andriy Muntyan took 30th place in the individual standings, scoring 80,665 points, and will take part in the Olympic Games for the second time after Rio 2016, writes News.ro.

The next program of the World Cup in Antwerp:

  • October 3 (from 8:30 p.m.) – men’s team final;
  • October 4 (20:30) – women’s team final;
  • October 5 (20:30) – final of individual complexes among men;
  • October 6 (8:30 p.m.) – finals of women’s individual competitions;
  • October 7 (3:00 p.m.) – finals on shot put, floor, horse, rings and women, jumps, parallel bars;
  • October 8 (3:00 p.m.) – event finals, vault (men), parallel bars, parallel bars and women, beam, floor.