The World Table Tennis Championship ended with the triumph of the Moldovan-Romanian pair. Andrei Putuntica and Cristian Pletea for the first time won gold in a world championship, in the men’s doubles, IPN reports.
In the final, Putuntica and Pletea won against the American twosome Hunak Ha and Jack Wung by 3-1.
At the world championship in Barbados, Putuntica also represented the team of Europe, winning silver in this category.
“He is very talented. He started to play table tennis at the age of 7. I’m glad that his father changed his mind and didn’t enroll him in a cycling course, but opted for table tennis,” said Andrei Putuntica’s coach Vladimir Semipeadnyi, who heads the Moldovan Table Tennis Federation.
Andrei Putuntica, 15, is from Calarasi. In his career, he has played for the table tennis teams of Constanta and Frankfurt.
