Gymnast Ana Maria Barbosu will receive on Friday the bronze medal won in the women's floor final of the Paris Olympic Games, the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee announced on Tuesday in a release.The medal will be handed to her by Octavian Morariu, member of the International Olympic Committee for Romania, and by Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee president Mihai Covaliu, in a ceremony that will take place on the esplanade of the Bucharest Olympic House on Friday, August 16, starting at 9:30.The Court of Arbitration for Sport decided that the Olympic bronze medal in the women's floor event should go to 18-year-old Ana Maria Barbosu, as per the initial finishing order, following the review applications filed by the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and the Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee.As a result of this ruling, Ana Maria Barbosu was reinstated as bronze medalist, while her fellow national Sabrina Maneca Voinea finished 4th, because the appeal submitted by the Romanian Gymnastics Federation and Maneca Voinea was dismissed.Romanian gymnastics had experienced an Olympic podium drought since 2012 (London), when Sandra Izbasa won vault gold, Catalina Ponor took silver on floor, and the Romanian women's team claimed the bronze.Romania ended its participation in the Paris Olympic Games with nine medals - three gold, four silver and two bronze, placing 23rd in the nations' overall ranking.
Critical Metals Corp (Nasdaq: CRML), an American company specialising in critical minerals, and Romanian nuclear group Nuclearelectrica (BVB: SNN) announced on December 9 the signing of an agreement for the development, in Romania at Feldioara, of an industrial rare earth processing facility. The planned facilities at Feldioara, where Nuclearelectrica operates its subsidiary Uranium Concentrate Processing […]
One United Properties (BVB: ONE), the Bucharest Exchange-listed developer of residential, mixed-use, and office real estate in Romania, announced the signing of a preliminary sale and purchase agreement for a 34,800 sqm plot of land in “the most desirable residential area of Constanța, on the Black Sea coast.” The land is located in the northern […]
Al Dahra Holding will exit Romania’s grain trading market in 2026, withdrawing from a sector with annual exports valued at about EUR 4 billion, Bloomberg reported on December 9, as cited by Ziarul Financiar. The company’s decision follows sustained pressure on international traders operating in the increasingly...
DN Agrar Group (BVB: DN), one of the leading integrated agrifood companies in Romania and the largest dairy milk producer in Europe, announced the financing plan for the development of a skimmed milk and cream processing facility, a strategic project supporting the group’s growth objectives for the 2025 - 2030 period. “According to the 2025 […]
OMV Petrom (BVB: SNP), as the operator, and Romgaz (BVB: SNG), as an equal partner in the offshore perimeter Neptun Deep, received from the Romanian government a two-year extension to November 2027 for the exploration period provisioned in the concession contract, according to a government press release. The overall period of the contract, which was […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan announced on Tuesday, December 9, that French president Emmanuel Macron will pay an official visit to Romania in 2026. The confirmation was made during Dan’s visit to Paris, where the two leaders held extensive discussions on defence, security, and economic...
