Cornel Penu

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Cornel Penu
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Personal information
Born16 June 1946 (1946-06-16) (age 78)
Buzău, Romania [1]
Height191 cm (6 ft 3 in) [2]
Weight87 kg (192 lb)
Sport
Sport Handball
Club Dinamo Bucharest [3]
Medal record
Representing Flag of Romania.svg  Romania
Olympic Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1972 Munich Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1976 Montreal Team
World Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 1967 Sweden Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1970 France Team
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1974 East Germany Team

Cornel Penu (born 16 June 1946) is a retired Romanian handball goalkeeper. He earned 257 caps with the national team and won the world title in 1970 and 1974 and two Olympic medals in 1972 and 1976. [3] He was named Best Goalkeeper at the 1974 World Championships, [4] and was selected for the World Team three times: in 1973, 1975 and 1976. [3]

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Penu took up handball in his hometown in 1958, and after enrolling to the University of Galați he played for Știința Galați. He graduated in 1968 from the Machine Construction Technology Department. [5] The same year he moved to Dinamo Bucharest, where he stayed until his retirement in 1980. After that he coached goalkeepers for Dinamo Bucharest and for the Romanian national team. He left Romania in 1993 to work as a coach in Morocco, [3] and as of 2012 he was living in France. [1] [6]

One of Penu's hobbies is painting. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Cornel Penu: "De 6 ani am ales Franţa, după 9 petrecuţi în Maroc"" (in Romanian). Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Cornel Penu". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Cornel Penu. Romanian Olympic Committee
  4. 1 2 ""80 de ani de handbal in Romania" 1921 – 2001" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  5. ↑ "Fostul mare handbalist Cornel Penu a fost la Galaţi, la 45 de ani de la absolvirea Facultăţii" (in Romanian). Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  6. ↑ "Eroi au fost eroi sunt inca" (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 28 January 2013. Retrieved 15 February 2013.
  7. ↑ "Cornel Penu, portar si pictor" (in Romanian). Retrieved 19 May 2014.
  8. ↑ "Orasul Buzau, mai bogat cu cinci cetateni de onoaare" (in Romanian). Retrieved 19 May 2014.


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