Twelve weightlifters from the Ungheni Sports School for Children and Juniors, pupils at the Ion Creangă, Mihai Eminescu and Gheorghe Asachi lyceums, came back from the international cadet tournament „Bălți Mayor's Cup” (8–11 October 2026) with 3 first, 4 second and 3 third places, the school says.
The team of the Ungheni Sports School for Children and Juniors, 42 athletes trained by coach Iurii Cebaniuc, won 8 first places, 11 second places and 7 third places at the Chișinău municipal open championship in traditional karate-do, dedicated to the capital’s patron day, Ungheni City Hall reports. A total of 169 athletes took part.
The athlete trained at the Ungheni Sports School beat Britain's Nathaniel Wood in Paris by unanimous decision (30-27, 30-27, 29-28). He had taken the fight five days earlier; he stays undefeated, 9-0.
Pavel Andrușca, a fighter trained at the Ungheni Sports School and a native of Mănoilești, makes his UFC debut on 5 September at the Accor Arena in Paris. The undefeated Moldovan (8-0, 7 finishes) faces Britain's Nathaniel Wood (23-6, #8 featherweight) after stepping in on just five days' notice.
Gabriel Mironiuc, an 11-year-old pupil at the “Alexandr Pușkin” Lyceum in Ungheni, was the best-placed player from the Republic of Moldova in his section at the “Open Bohumín” international chess festival, held in July in the Czech Republic. The section — a classical FIDE-rated tournament — had 26 participants. Ungheni City Hall announced a bronze medal for him. He trains at the Ungheni Sports School — a town with a chess tradition that hosted, in 2021, a simultaneous exhibition with former world champion Anatoly Karpov.
The athletes of the Ungheni Sports School won 17 medals — 8 gold, 3 silver and 6 bronze — at the international “Nicolae and Andrian Pascaru” freestyle wrestling tournament, hosted on Sunday, 9 August, by the village of Semeni in Zagarancea commune. The sixth edition of the children's and juniors' competition brought together athletes from five countries — the Republic of Moldova, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia and the United States — and had a commemorative character. The tournament is organized by the Ungheni Sports School and the Zagarancea commune town hall, with the support of the Ungheni District Council.
Fighter Pavel Andrușca, who served his athletic apprenticeship at the Ungheni Sports School, won by first-round knockout at the UAE Warriors 72 gala in Abu Dhabi on Thursday, 23 July. The victory — his second in a row in one of the biggest MMA promotions in the Middle East — keeps his run perfect: eight matches, eight wins, six of them before the limit. We explain who he is and what an 8-0 record means in Moldovan MMA.
The group of children born in 2018 — the youngest athletes at Ungheni District Sports School — returned with the silver medal from the ‘Junior Mamaia Cup’, a children’s football tournament held in Mamaia, Romania. It is the youngest link in a district school that, in the same summer, promoted its U16 juniors to the National League and that already held, since 2023, a national bronze in beach football. Behind the trip are coach Constantin Lungu and the parents who accompanied the little ones.
Serafim Godea (2nd place) and Kiril Stadnic (3rd place), from the Ungheni Children and Juniors Sports School, reached the podium in the youngest age category at the Chișinău Open table-tennis championship, dedicated to International Children's Day. The result, announced by Ungheni city hall, comes from a town that does not only send children to competitions but also hosts them: in 2026, Ungheni was the host of two national children's table-tennis championships.
