Sabrina Maneca Voinea won bronze at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships

At the age of 15, at the first major competition for seniors, Sabrina Maneca Voinea presented the most difficult exercise in the floor final (D- 5.9), she received 13.566, being overtaken by the British Jessica Gadirova (14.000) and Alice Kinsella (13.666). . Ana Maria Bărbosu was 7th with 12,800.

On beam, Amalia Ghigoarta ranked 6th, with 12,900. Debutant at the senior European championships, Ama did not miss, but the difficulty of her exercise was lower than that of the medalists: Sanne Wevers (Netherlands) – gold, 13.800, Manila Esposito (Italy) – silver, 13.700 and Zsofia Kovacs (Hungary) – bronze , 13,700.

Twice the 4th place in the men’s competition for Romanian gymnasts Gabriel Burtanete and Andrei Muntean were one step away from the podium in vaults and parallel bars, respectively. With an average of 14.449 (14.333/14.566), Gabi stopped at 0.309 points from the bronze won by Igor Radivilov (Ukraine) – 14.750. The gold was won by Artur Davtyan (Armenia) -15,033, and the silver went to Jake Jarman (Great Britain) 15,016.

In the parallels, Andrei Muntean relied on execution (14.400), but the difficulty of the first 3 ranked was greater and the leader of the men’s team missed the bronze by 0.333 points. Gold was won by Illia Kovtun (Ukraine) – 5,166, silver went to Ferhat Arican (Turkey) – 14,933, and bronze to Thierno Diallo (Spain) – 14,733

Sabrina Maneca Voinea, Ana Maria Bărbosu and Amalia Ghigoartă are part of the project “Country, country, we want champions!”, coordinated by Mariana Bitang and Octavian Bellu and financed by OMV Petrom.

The Romanian delegation will return home on Monday at 3:00 p.m. (girls), 8:20 p.m. (boys), at Henri Coandă airport, according to the Romanian Gymnastics Federation.