At the European Youth Wrestling Championship (U-23), held in Tirana (Albania), Moldovan athletes won 3 medals – 1 silver and 2 bronze. The tournament ends today with Greco-Roman wrestling bouts in a number of weight categories. Our national team may get two more medals, including at least one silver one.
Moldova achieved a historic success at the Paralympic Games in Paris. For the first time, Moldova’s representatives won 2 medals: Ion Basoc became silver medalist of the Paralympic tournament in para-judo in the weight category over 90 kg, and the 2008 Paralympic champion Oleg Cretsul won bronze medal in the weight category up to 90 kg. Three more athletes – Gheorghe Spinu, Larisa Marinenkova and Inna Cernei – did not win medals, but they also represented our country with dignity. By the way, for Larisa Marinenkova the last Paralympics became the fifth in her sporting career, and Inna Cernei made her debut at the main Games of the 4th year.
At the 1st stage of the Biathlon World Cup in Kontiolahti, Finland, Alina Stremous, representing the Republic of Moldova, took 15th place in the sprint race and 18th place in the mass start. These results are the best performances since the 2022 Winter Olympics in the career of the 29-year-old athlete in competitions among the elite of the world biathlon. She did, however, win a gold medal in the pursuit at the 2022 European Championships. But the level of competitors in that tournament is much lower compared to the World Cup, which runs from November through March, and the World Championships, which will be hosted by Switzerland’s Lenzerheide in February 2025.
The total value of the first 10 most expensive Moldovan footballers is €10.35 million. Only two of them play in the Moldovan Super League, more precisely in Petrocube from Hincesti. The rest of the participants of the rating defend the colors of foreign clubs.
