Roxana Bîrcă climbed on the highest step of the podium in the 5.000 meters run which she finished with the time 15:39.76 minutes, with this being the best performance in this competition season for the Romanian sportswoman.
The next two steps of the podium were climbed by Olga Kolovkina (Russia, 15:43.77 minutes) and Ayuko Suzuki (Japan, 15:51.47 minutes).
The second gold medal of the Romanian delegation was conquered Thursday by wrestler Stefan Gheorghita in the 84-kg category. The Romanian athlete surpassed in the first round Amarhadsi Magomedov (Belarus), in the quarterfinals he defeated Piotr Ianulov, while in the semi-finals he managed to overcome Umidjon Usmanov (Uzbekistan). In the finals Stefan Gheorghita fought and defeated Shamil Kudiamagomedov (Russia) by 3-1.
In athletics, Carmen Cristina Toma got the bronze medal in the triple jump test with a performance of 14.14 metres, the best personal result of the season. Russian Ekaterina Koneva (14.82 metres) won the competition and the silver medal went to Polish Anna Jagaciak (14.21).
The second representative of Romania in the of 5,000 meters run , Cristina Furmuz, got the 8th place (16.39.07).
At 3,000 meters obstacles, Alexander Ghinea was ranked 7th (8:53.14 minutes).
After six days of competition at the World University Games, the Romanian delegation has six medals won, two gold (athlete Roxana Bîrcă and wrestler Stefan George) and four bronze medals (athlete Andreea Ogăzeanu, 100 and 200 meters athlete Carmen Cristina Toma, the triple jump and swordswoman Simona Pop).
