Cornel Penu

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Cornel Penu (2nd from left)

Cornel Penu (born June 16, 1946 in Buzău ) is a former Romanian handball goalkeeper . When he was active, he weighed 87 kilograms and was 1.91 meters long.

Cornel Penu was the goalkeeper for Dinamo Bucharest . His first major tournament with the Romanian national team was the 1967 World Cup , in which the Romanian team took third place after two world championship titles in the tournaments. Three years later, at the 1970 World Cup in France, Romania won the final against the GDR .

The Romanian world champions were also among the favorites at the Olympic premiere of indoor handball at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. After a 14:13 defeat against the Yugoslav team , the Romanians only reached the game for third place, in which they won 19:16 against the GDR. At the 1974 World Cup in the GDR, the Romanians and the GDR selection faced each other in the final like four years before, the Romanians won the title 14:12. In 1976 in Montreal the Romanians reached the Olympic final against the Soviet team, but lost clearly with 15:19.

The 266-time national player Penu was a top performer of his team in all the successes of the Romanian team in the 1970s. In the final of the 1974 World Cup, the circle runner of the GDR Wolfgang Lakenmacher temporarily left the field because he not only failed with all throws at Penu, but because Penu laughed at him every time he tried. In 2000 the World Handball Magazine had ten national coaches put together a handball team of the 20th century, and these experts nominated Cornel Penu as goalkeeper.

Penu, whose hobby is painting, has lived in Sedan , France since 2012 after having worked as a trainer in Marrakech , Morocco for 9 years .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of Romanian national players (PDF, p. 40, Romanian , 2.8 MB)
  2. ↑ Erik Eggers: Böhme . Verlag die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2007 ISBN 978-3-89533-604-1 page 96
  3. ↑ Article in the Siebenbürger Zeitung (accessed June 27, 2010)
  4. ↑ Cornel Penu, portar si pictor ( Romanian ). Retrieved May 19, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Penu, Cornel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian handball goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Buzau