Romanian athletes have won 18 gold medals in a total of 43 medals at the Special Olympic Summer Games for athletes with intellectual disabilities.
The event was hosted by Berlin from June 17 to 25. Romania competed in nine events, also winning 18 silver, and seven bronze, according to a press release.
The Special Olympics World Games are the world’s largest inclusive sports event, with Germany hosting the event for the first time. .
The Special Olympics World Games are the world’s largest inclusive sports event. Thousands of athletes with intellectual disabilities, such as Down’s Syndrome, compete in 26 sports. The Paralympics which happen every four years focus more on physical disabilities.
Romania’s Special Olympics team took 12 gold, 5 silver, and 3 bronze in the gymnastics and two golds, a silver and a bronze in the athletics. They won one gold and three bronze medals in the swimming.
Two silver medals were won in the tennis, two gold, a silver and a bronze in the judo and a gold, five silver and a bronze in the roller skating.
Legendary Romanian gymnast, Nadia Comaneci, who scored the world’s perfect 10 in the 1976 Montreal Olympics and is Romania’s Olympics global ambassador, joined the Romanian athletes at the opening ceremony and encouraged them during the first days of the competition.
There were 7,000 athletes from 190 countries competing in Berlin.
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