Romanian David Popovici clinched the gold medal in the men's 200m freestyle on Thursday at the European Aquatics U23 Swimming Championships in Samorin (Slovakia), clocking in at 1:43.64.
Popovici was almost three seconds faster than the runner-up, Bulgarian Petar Mitsin (1:46.48), and Britain's Charlie Hutchison completed the podium with the time of 1:46.84, agerpres reports.
The Romanian Olympic champion had pulled off the best time of the heats on Thursday morning - 1:46.84.
In the women's 800m freestyle event, Rebecca-Aimee Diaconescu finished fourth in 8:36.84. The continental title went to German Maya Werner (8:29.53), Poland's Klaudia Tarasiewicz raced to silver (8:33.93), and Greek Artemis Vasilaki took home bronze (8:34.35).
In the men's 200m backstroke final, Romanian Alexandru Constantinescu finished last with 2:01.23. His time in the heats had been 2:00.58.
At the European Aquatics U23 Swimming Championships in Samorin (Slovakia) taking place between June 26 - 29 Romania has a line-up of 13 athletes.
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