UPDATE Andreea Ana cades the gold to the Europeans of fighting after three consecutive triumphs »silver for the Romanian in the 53 kg + bronze category by Alexandra Anghel at 72 kg

UPDATE Bronze for Alexandra Anghel in the 72 Kg category

The last Romanian fighter remained in the competition, Alexandra Anghel (27 years old), won the bronze medal in the 72 kg category. She defeated Daniela Tkachuk from Poland (21 years old) with 8-3, VPO1.

The tricolor athlete had been defeated in the “quarters” by Turcoaica Nesin Bas (22 years), the title holder, 2-1 (VPO), and this was then qualified in the final. Anghel thus climbed into recalifications, where he prevailed with 8-2 ​​(VPO1) in the Swedish dispute Elvira Esmeralda Ersson (19 years). Victoria allowed him to fight for the bronze distinction.

Anghel is the continental champion of 2023, conquering in 2024 the silver medal and bronze in 2018. It also has world bronze in 2022, all in the 72 kg category.

• 3 medals obtained Romania at the European Championships in 2025, all in female, two silver and one bronze fights. At the previous edition, the balance had been 5 medals, one gold, two silver, two bronze

Andreea Ana, broken chain of victories

For three years in a row, 2022, 2023, 2024, Andreea Ana was the European champion of 55 kg, a non -Olympic one. In the current season, she participated in the continental competition at 53 kg, where she also competed in the Paris Olympic Games.

And he reached the final, showing his value and Constanța. In the last act, however, he was defeated, at a great fight, 4-3, VPO1 decision, by an opponent with a few years of extra experience.

Greek Maria Prevolraki (33 years old) won on this occasion the first European career title, after four silver medals and as much bronze in the 53 and 55 kg categories between 2013 and 2024. It also has three world bronze distinctions.

Andreea Ana, the first European silver in the track record

In the route to the final, Ana started with a close success, 5-4, VPO1, in the quarterfinals, in front of Ukrainia Lilia Malanchuk (23 years), a continental champion U23 last year.

In the semifinals, it exceeded the Belarus Viyaleta Rebikava Chyryk (30 years) with 5-3, VPO1 decision. Andrei's silver joins the one brought by Kateryna Zelenykh (24 years) in the 68 kg category, on Thursday night, after a final lost in front of Belarus Alina Shauchuk (19 years), 2-2, VPO1.

Andreea Beatrice Ana in a break at European Championships 2025 Photo: Imago Images

Andreea Ana debuted at the senior Europeans in 2019, in Bucharest, when she had only 19 yearsthen obtaining its first medal, the bronze, in the 55 kg category. An performance he repeated in 2021, in Warsaw. Then came the three consecutive titles.

At the Paris Olympic Games, last year, “Tricolora” took 9th place. She passed the first round, defeating Moldovan Mariana Drăguțan, 5-0, then gave in to Ecuadorian Lucia Yepez, 0-7, and in Relicifications he lost, 0-11, with North Coreeanca Choe Hyo-Gyong.

Ana then competed with a ligament forcing meniscus rupture, accidents suffered at a training, a week before the start of the Olympic competition.

Within the European Championships in Bratislava, in Greco-Roman fights, 55 kg category, Denis Florin Mihai (22 years old), bronze medalist in the previous two editions, lost in the quarterfinals. He was defeated by the Moldovan Artiom Deleanu (26 years old), 7-1, VPO decision.