Attention-grabbing
in 2021 was, among other things, the retirement of several top-flight Romanian athletes.
Among them, fencer Ana-Maria Popescu, tennis player Horia
Tecau as well as gymnasts Larisa Iordache and Marian Drăgulescu.
For the fifth time
running, in 2021 Ana-Maria Popescu has been designated the world s best epee
fencer. According to the final rankings, Ana-Maria Popescu was again at the top
of the table. In the last confrontation of her career, in early December, Ana Maria
Popescu came in 2nd at the MK Fencing Academy International Epee
Cup, a World Cup stage event held in Dubai. Ana-Maria Popescu made her
retirement public immediately after the contest.
Lovers of fencing
know her as Ana-Maria Branza. She was born on November 26, 1984 in Bucharest. Ana
Maria first compelled recognition when she stepped onto the third step of the
podium at the World Seniors Championships held in 2002 in Lisbon. Ana-Maria was only 18 back then. All hopes were
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