Hamdy El-Said

Romanian athlete Alin Alexuc-Ciurariu took the gold medal in the 130 kg category, Greco-Roman wrestling, on Tuesday evening, in the wrestling European Championships in Rome, after defeating in the final Georgian athlete Levan Arabuli (6-1). Alexuc-Ciurariu (CS Dinamo), who turned 30 on February 3, thus managed his highest career performance.

Greco-Roman wrestler Virgil Munteanu (59 kg) was the first Romanian athlete to compete on Saturday morning in the 1st edition in Baku of the European Games.

In the first round, Munteanu defeated Hungarian Csongor Knipli, then moved on to defeat Turkish Fatih Ucuncu and lose the quarter-final to Moldova's Victor Ciobanu.