Pandanet Youth Go European Team Championship 2026
Romania
Catalin Taranu (Captain)
- Pandanet account: CatalinT
- Go career: Ţăranu started learning go from Cristian Cobeli in 1989, at the age of 16. His first tournament was for players in the 10 to 4 Kyū range, when he was a 6 kyu. He won all eight games. He moved up to amateur 1 dan in a year, and just a year later moved up to 4 dan. He started winning small tournaments in Romania around this time. He was invited to Japan by Saijo Masataka in 1995. He quickly joined the Nagoya branch of the Nihon-Kiin and became an insei. After two years, he became the second European (after Manfred Wimmer from Austria in 1978) to pass the professional examination. It took Catalin just 4 years to reach 5p (5-dan professional). He won the European Go Championship in 2008. He was the president of the Romanian Go Federation for 2009 to 2011.
- Club / city: VaDo
- Rank: 5 dan professional
- Profession: Pro Go Player
- Year of birth: 1973
1: Robert Andrei Grosu
- Pandanet account: Pingu25
- Club / city: Hikaru / București
- Rank: 5 dan
- Year of birth: 2009
2: Alexandru Nicolas Patrascu
- Pandanet account: Nicolas1
- Club / city: GoGoblins
- Rank: 2 dan
- Year of birth: 2011
3: Andrei-Luca Heemeryck
- Pandanet account: AndreiGoGo
- Club / city: GoGoblins/Bucharest
- Rank: 1 kyu
- Year of birth: 2010
4: Radu Oprisan
- Pandanet account: zappa11
- Club / city: GoGoblins/Bucharest
- Rank: 1 kyu
- Year of birth: 2009
5: Eduard Andrei Iugulescu
- Pandanet account: eddie1
- Club / city: Sakata / Cluj
- Rank: 2 kyu
- Year of birth: 2012
6: Bogdan Stefan Tifrea
- Pandanet account: Bogdan23
- Club / city: Atsumi/Bistrita
- Rank: 2 kyu
- Year of birth: 2008
8: Victor-Alexandru Castaliu
- Pandanet account: VictorC
- Club / city: GoGoblins/Bucharest
- Rank: 9 kyu
- Year of birth: 2015
9: Victor Bajenaru
- Pandanet account: Victor2014
- Club / city: GoGoblins
- Rank: 10 kyu
- Year of birth: 2014
10: Ana Sofia Gheorghe
- Pandanet account: AnaSofia
- Club / city: Vatra Dornei
- Rank: 12 kyu
- Year of birth: 2014
11: Stefania Bajenaru
- Pandanet account: Stefi2012
- Club / city: GoGoblins
- Rank: 14 kyu
- Year of birth: 2012