Romania won two bronze medals at the European Under-23 Judo Championships in Potsdam, Germany on Saturday, finishing 15th.

Alex Kretz and Darius Georgescu, bronze medals of the European Judo Championship under 23

The cat has In the weight category up to 90 kg, Alex Krets won the medal match against Serbian Voyn Mandic. Kretz went directly to the second round, defeating the Czech Michal Pfaff, then in the quarters he passed the Hungarian Hergel Nerpel, losing in the semi-finals to the Ukrainian Nikita Yudanov, the silver medalist.

In the same category, Rares Arseni was defeated in the first round by Czech Radomir Musil.

Darius Georgescu won bronze in cat. +100 kg after the victory over the Azerbaijani Kanan Nasibov. Georgescu went directly to the second round, in which he defeated the Austrian Movli Borchashvili, passed the German Daniel Udsilauri in the quarters, but lost the semifinals to the new European champion, the Georgian Saba Inaneishvili.

The cat has 100 kg Alexandru Sibishan made his debut with a victory over Georgian Mikheil Japaridze, but lost in the round of 16 to Italian Daniele Accola, later a gold medalist.

In women’s competitions in cat. +78 kg Georgiana Miller was defeated in the first round by Croatian Marcelina Vranjes. Paula Pastiu also lost in the first round to Bosnian Sara Maric.

With three bronze medals won by Amanda Zuaznabar Torres (cat. 63 kg), Alex Kretz (cat. 90 kg) and Darius Georgescu (cat. +100 kg), Romania took 15th place in the medal standings. The Netherlands were first with a score of 3-1-2, followed by Georgia (2-2-1), Ukraine (2-2-0), etc.

Romania took part in the competition with 14 athletes, 6 among men and 8 among women. Last year, judoka Aleksandru Matei won the bronze medal of the U23 European Championship in cat. 60 kg, reports Agerpres.

At the U23 European Judo Championship (November 17-19), 309 judokas from 36 countries of the world performed: 184 young men and 126 women. On Sunday, the team qualification will take place.