Andrei Cornea and Marian Enache won gold medals in the men's double rowing, while Ancuța Bodnar and Simona Radiș won silver in the women's double rowing.

They add two more Olympic medals - gold and silver - to Romania's medal tally at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Rowers Andrei Cornea and Marian Enache won gold medals in the men's double sculls on Thursday after a race they led for most of the race.

They brought Romania's first ever Olympic medal in the men's double rowing with a time of 6 min 12 sec 58/100.

The Netherlands came second with silver medals, with Melvin Twellaar, Stef Broenink, in 6 min 13 sec 92/100, and third place went to the Irish crew - Daire Lynch, Philip Doyle - in 6 min 15 sec 17/100.

Rowers Ancuța Bodnar and Simona Radiș came second in the women's double sculls on Thursday in 6 min 50 sec 69/100.

Olympic champions in Tokyo, the Romanians led the 1,000-meter race, but were beaten at the end by New Zealand's Brooke Francis, Lucy Spoors, just 24/100 (6:50.45).

The British athletes - Mathilda Hodgkins Byrner, Rebecca Wilde - won the bronze medal with a time of 6 min 53 sec 22/100.

Bodnar and Radiș hold the best Olympic time in the event (6:41.03), recorded in Tokyo.

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