Aqua Sport Bucharest Sports Club invites you to: Andrei Nicolescu Cup 2 nd Edition October 27 28, 2018 Romania, Bucharest, Age categories: 5 9 and younger RSVP: October 13, 2018 Mircea Purcaru: mircea.purcaru@aquasport.ro; +40 745.641.453 Oussema Rebai: oussema.rebai@aquasport.ro +40 771.545.078 Registrations: inscrieri@amnb.ro Organizer: Club Sportiv Aqua Sport CITIUS București
Competition schedule and events October 27 th 28 th, 2018 Day 1: Saturday, October 27, 2018 Day 2: Sunday October 28, 2018 09:00 Warmingup period 08:00 08:45 Qualifications 09:00 Warmingup period 08:0008:45 Qualifications 1 m Freestyle (9 and younger, 8, 7, 6, 5) 5 50 m Freestyle (9 and younger, 8, 7, 6, 5) 2 m Breaststroke (6, 5) 6 m Backstroke (6, 5) 3 m Backstroke (9 and younger, 8, 7, 6, 5) 7 m Breaststroke (9 and younger, 8, 7, 6, 5) 4 m CRAZY Individual Medley (9 and younger, 8, 7, 8 m Freestyle (9 and younger, 8, 7, 6, 5) 6, 5) 9 m Butterfly (9 and younger, 8, 7, 6, 5) 17:00 Warmingup period 15:45 16:30 14 Finals 17:00 Warmingup period 16:0016:45 59 Finals 10 Generations relay race 4*50 mixed style
Official contest rules I. Organizer «ANDREI NICOLESCU Cup» contest is organized by CLUB SPORTIV AQUA SPORT CITIUS BUCURESTI. The participants to the contest shall observe the terms and conditions in these Official Contest Rules. The Official Contest Rules shall be drawn up and made public in accordance with the legislation in force in Romania, and it shall be available for free for each applicant on Organizer s website and at the place where the contest takes place. The contest shall be organized in compliance with FINA International Swimming Federation Contest Rules, and the competitors shall observe the rules presented in FINA rules. FINA rules may be read on the official website of the International Swimming Federation (FINA) http://www.fina.org/sites/default/files/finaswrules_20150907.pdf By taking part in this competition, the participants agree to comply with and observe all the provisions, terms and conditions of these Official Contest Rules and of the legislation in force. II. Period and place of contest The contest shall take place in the period October 2728, 2018 at Dinamo Olympic Swimming Pool (Bucharest, Șoseaua Ștefan cel Mare, nr. 79). The swimming pool is 50 m long and it has 10 lanes. Water temperature is 2628 degrees Celsius. Timekeeping is automatic. III. Participants The categories of participants are the children born between 59 and younger. The competitors falling into the categories specified in these Rules and who registered and paid the contest fees may take part in this Contest.Those born in 2010, 2011 will be awarded together with those born in 9 and have to accomplish the target times for 9. The maximum number of participants shall be 350. When this figure has been touched, registrations shall stop. Each club shall be responsible for the health of their participants in the contest. They must have a medical visa to date, and the verification of this visa shall be incumbent on the participating club. The participation to this contest shall be the responsibility of each competitor and club, respectively.
Official contest rules IV. Registration The registration lists shall be sent via email until October 13, 2018 to the address inscrieri@amnb.ro. Withdrawals shall be made until October 11th 2018 at the latest. The registration deadline shall be mandatory. A child may take part to maximum 2 events of each meeting. The system creating the series is automatic. Series shall be OPEN in qualifications. We reserve the right to change the start time according to the number of registrations received. The organizing club undertakes, within 24 hours since the receiving of the registration list, to send a confirmation email. If this is not the case, they shall consider that the respective registration list has not been received, and the participating club shall have to resend the registration list. The start lists shall be completed within at least 48 hours before the beginning of the contest. These and the real time results may be followed by accessing the website www.amnb.ro. V. Participation fee The participation fee shall be RON/participant. The fee may be paid in cash before the official beginning of the contest or by bank transfer to the account RO93BACX0000001098609003 open with UNICREDIT BANK, beneficiary Asociaţia Club Sportiv AQUA SPORT CITIUS BUCURESTI. The fee for each club shall be calculated according to the final list on October 20, 2018 which shall become exigible from now on, regardless whether a participant withdraws subsequently VI. Rules and conditions The first 8 athletes in each event shall qualify to the event finals in the afternoon. The finals shall be constituted by ages. If there are 8 participants or fewer for the same event, the athletes shall no longer participate to qualifications and they shall qualify directly for the finals. In the event no. 4, m CRAZY Individual Medley, during the qualifications, the swimmers will have to respect the order of the styles mentioned in the FINA rules whereas in the finals, the 8th qualified swimmers will extract the order of the styles right before the start of the race, each swimmer having a unique combination. If there are more than 2 athletes from the same club they shall not qualify for the same finals.
Official contest rules If 3 or more athletes from the same club have obtained a time allowing them to qualify for the finals, the first 2 shall qualify, and the rest of them shall be replaced with athletes from other clubs in the order of qualification times If 2 or more athletes are on a par on the 8th place, they shall be subject to a tiebreaker consisting in the repeating of the event. The relay races shall take place in the event finals. Each club may register maximum one relay race for each gender and it shall be made up of children born in different years. 2 athletes born in the same year shall not be allowed to take part to the relay races. Following the finals, the first 3 athletes for each individual event as well as the first 3 relay races shall be awarded diplomas, medals and surprise prizes by the organisers. The most valuable athlete based on the score accumulated for each age and gender category and the first 3 clubs in the overall ranking shall be awarded diplomas and cups and special prizes. Each event has a target time. In the case that the target time is not achieved in the competition, the club has to pay a penalty fee of 50 RON/event. The target times are presented in the next table: Target Times Andrei Nicolescu Cup, 2 nd Edition Girls Boys Event 5 6 7 8 < 9 < 9 8 7 6 5 00:35 00:36 00:40 00:42 00:47 50 Fr 00:45 00:40 00:38 00:35 00:34 Finalists in each event, according to the place they occupy, shall also receive a number of points as follows: 1 st place 9 points; 2 nd place 7 points; 3 rd place 6 points; 4 th place 5 points; 5 th place 4 points; 6 th place 3 points; 7 th place 2 points; 8 th place 1 points; relay races shall be scored double. 1:17:00 2:45:00 1:27:00 3:05:00 1:36:00 3:29:00 1:24:00 3:06:00 1:20:00 2:49:00 1:31:00 3:10:00 1:41:00 3:35:00 1:29:00 3:13:00 1:25:00 3:00:00 1:38:00 1:49:00 1:36:00 3:25:00 1:34:00 3:16:00 1:45:00 1:56:00 1:53:00 3:33:00 1:45:00 3:37:00 1:55:00 2:00:00 1:58:00 3:45:00 Fr Fr Bk Bk Br Br Fl IM 1:41:00 3:33:00 1:55:00 2:00:00 1:55:00 3:39:00 1:30:00 3:12:00 1:43:00 1:55:00 1:50:00 3:30:00 1:21:00 2:57:00 1:35:00 1:47:00 1:33:00 3:22:00 1:16:00 2:45:00 1:28:00 3:05:00 1:39:00 3:28:00 1:26:00 3:09:00 1:13:00 2:39:00 1:22:00 2:56:00 1:30:00 3:15:00 1:18:00 2:57:00
Official contest rules VII. Other observations Each participating club shall have a number of seats allocated in the tribune proportionally to the number of participants. The competitors may stay on the border of the swimming pool as there are seats specially arranged for them. By their registration to the contest, the participating delegations agree to the taking of photos/filming of the participant athletes and to the use of the audiovideo data for commercial purposes. If extraordinary situations that prevent the safe carrying out of the event (e.g. extreme weather conditions) may occur, situations that may not be foreseen, the event shall be postponed or even cancelled. The participation to the contest/event of the persons having alcoholic drinks/drugs on them or who are intoxicated by them, of the persons having any kind of weapons, explosive or fire materials, irritatingteargas substances or substances having a paralyzing effect, electric shock devices or any other objects on them that may be used for violent actions or for the disturbance of the normal carrying out of the event shall be forbidden. The persons who breach these provisions shall be eliminated from the event area by the organisers, even with the help of the law enforcement, if necessary. Accommodation and meals may be provided by: Hotel Graffiti Cost: app. 30 Euro/pers (3 meals included) Contact information: Website: http://hotelgraffiti.ro Email: receptie@hotelgraffiti.ro Phone: +40 21 231 79 79 For any further information or questions regarding the contest, please contact the persons below by phone or email. Mircea Purcaru: mircea.purcaru@aquasport.ro; +40 745.641.453 Oussema Rebai: oussema.rebai@aquasport.ro; +40 771.545.078 Casa Sofia Cost: app. 35 Euro/pers (3 meals included) Contact information: Website: http://www.casasofia.ro Email: contact@casasofia.ro Phone: +40 753 118 900 The organiser reserves the right to modify these Contest Rules until the beginning date of the contest and to enter these modifications on the official site and at the place where the contest shall take place.
1 st Edition in pictures and numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoisvjv21a8 390 athlets 18 Sports Clubs from Romania and abroad 2.000 people cheering Bucharest, Romania 5 important sports personalities from Romania came and inspired the little swimmers: Camelia Potec The President of Romanian Swimming Federation and also the Olympic Champion at Freestyle in Athens 4, Silviu Anastase Swimming Federal Coach, Dragoș Coman who won the bronze medal at the World Swimming Championship in Barcelona 3 and Indianapolis 4, Larisa Lacustă the winner of the silver medal at Short Course Swimming World Championship in Gothenburg, and Ramona Farcău the top scorer at The Olympic Games in 8 at handball.
1 st Edition records Girls 8 years 9 years 10 years 11 years 12 years Boys 8 years 9 years 10 years 11 years 12 years 50 Freestyle Zaharia Ana Lisa 35.57 (2017) 50 Freestyle Blejan Ianis 34.79 (2017) Freestyle Stefura Ingrid 1:14.95 (2017) Frunza Ingrid Steaua CSA 1:10.96 (2017) Stirbu Ioana 1:08.06 (2017) Drog Maria 1:06.58 (2017) Freestyle Avakian Karen 1:09.10 (2017) Bonciu Matei 1:08.91 (2017) Bucur Andreas 1:05.56 (2017) Cozma Stefan 58.54 (2017) Freestyle Zaharia Ana Lisa 3:06.78 (2017) Stiger Diana Steaua CSA 2:41.81 (2017) Mihalcea Maria Steaua CSA 2:33.11 (2017) Stirbu Ioana 2:29.26 (2017) Iorga Andreea Steaua CSA 2:24.87 (2017) Freestyle Blejan Ianis 02:49.06 (2017) Avakian Karen 02:31.49 (2017) Bonciu Matei 2:31.17 (2017) Mihalache Vlad 2:20.87 (2017) Cozma Stefan Stiinta Bacau 02:10:02 (2017) Backstroke Calapod Christine 1:32.54 (2017) Diamandescu Eliza Renovatio S.C. 1:21.94 (2017) Mihalcea Maria Steaua CSA 1:20.45 (2017) 1:14.50 (2017) Zorzoliu Miruna Renovatio S.C. 1:12.76 (2017) Backstroke Borcea Robert 1:25.88 (2017) Stoica David 1:23.21 (2017) Nistorescu Alexandru Contratimp Campina 1:17.75 (2017) Mihalache Vlad 1:14.00 (2017) Balaita Dragos Stiinta Bacau 1:12.29 (2017) Backstroke Zorzoliu Miruna Renovatio S.C 2:37.81(2017) Backstroke Balaita Dragos Stiinta Bacau 2:34.99 (2017) Breaststroke Branisteanu Melisa 1:43.36 (2017) Diamandescu Eliza Renovatio S.C. 1:32.25 (2017) Diamandescu Eliza Renovatio S.C. 1:32.25 (2017) 1:23.69 (2017) 1:23.69 (2017) Breaststroke Balaci Bogdan Renovatio S.C 1:44.80 (2017) Ivanof Alexandru 1:34.95 (2017) Cojocaru Flavius 1:31.02 (2017) Bucur Andreas 1:26.61 (2017) Adam Robert Stiinta Bacau 1:17.98 (2017) Breaststroke Zorzoliu Miruna Renovatio S.C 3:03.80 (2017) Breaststroke Adam Robert 2:49.68 (2017) Butterfly Individual Medley Ban Alexia 1:38.89 (2017) Diamandescu Eliza Renovatio S.C. 2:53.99 (2017) Frunza Ingrid Steaua CSA 1:20.93 (2017) Butnaru Alexandra Winner Pitesti 2:53.14 (2017) 1:14.14 (2017) 2:40.84 (2017) 1:14.14 (2017) 2:40.84 (2017) Butterfly Individual Medley Avakian Karen 1:22.88 (2017) Avakian Karen 2:56.77 (2017) Bonciu Matei 1:17.73 (2017) Bonciu Matei 2:51.04 (2017) Constantinescu Alexandru 1:13.55 (2017) Bucur Andreas 2:40.25(2017) Cozma Stefan 1:03.96 (2017) Cozma Stefan Stiinta Bacau 2:26.42 (2017)
In Memoriam Everything started with a high performance athlete Andrei Nicolescu the Chairperson of Club Sportiv Aqua Sport Bucuresti, who believed that high performance is possible and, above all, necessary in Romania. He fought with all his forces for his dream to give access to as many children as possible to the benefits of swimming and to give Romania, in 2028, an Olympic champion at swimming. We know that if he had had enough time, he would have kept his word. We are honoured and it is our responsibility to take his dream forward.
About Aqua Sport Andrei gathered a young team made of former high performance athletes, and in 2010 he started an ambitious project called today Club Sportiv Aqua Sport Bucuresti affiliated to the Romanian Swimming and Modern Pentathlon Federation.
About Aqua Sport But there is more than just us... High Performance Group of Club Sportiv Aqua Sport Bucuresti was officially introduced in 2013 and in only two years it has managed to grow enormously up to more than athletes.
About Aqua Sport Over the years they have won hundreds of medals in diverse local, national and international competitions.
Andrei Nicolescu Cup 2 nd Edition Together with the people who are not always seen But who always supervise the keeping of train on track, Club Sportiv Aqua Sport Bucuresti or Aqua Sport family represents today more than 50 people who work every day to bring a change to Romania, and more than children in the High Performance Groups representing this change. We train the champion within!