{"id":450518,"date":"2026-06-13T11:22:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T08:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipn.md\/moldovan-athletes-have-won-six-medals-in-contact-sports-in-brazil\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T09:11:38","slug":"moldovan-athletes-have-won-six-medals-in-contact-sports-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipn.md\/en\/moldovan-athletes-have-won-six-medals-in-contact-sports-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"Moldovan athletes have won six medals in contact sports in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Athletes from the Republic of Moldova have won six medals at the World University Contact Sports Championship, held in Brazil, with most of them reaching the awards podium, reports IPN.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ministry of Education and Research notes that the best results were achieved in the women&#8217;s wrestling and muaythai competitions. Freestyle fighters Mihaela Samoil (55 kg) and Irina Ringaci (65 kg) became university world champions, while Andrei Avramov (-67 kg) won the gold in muaythai, after a victory in the final against the Mexican Luis Emilio Gonzalez.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three silver medals were won by Ion Demian (92 kg), in freestyle wrestling, as well as by Alexandru Solovei (77 kg) and Gabriel Lupasco (87 kg), in Greco-Roman style. Two other Moldovan athletes, Constantin Chirilov and Sergiu Lupa\u0219co, took fifth place in the freestyle wrestling competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes from the Republic of Moldova have won six medals at the World University Contact Sports Championship, held in Brazil, with most of them reaching the awards podium, reports IPN.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":450517,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[11383,1293,1625,2026,1292,904],"class_list":["post-450518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-brazil","tag-championship","tag-fighting","tag-mec-en","tag-medals","tag-sport-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Moldovan athletes have won six medals in contact sports in Brazil - 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