Cristina Neagu

Cristina Neagu

Cristina Neagu on June 13, 2017 before the international match against Austria
Player information
Full name	Cristina Georgiana Neagu
birthday	August 26, 1988
place of birth	Bucharest , Romania
citizenship	Romanian
height	1.80 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	CSM Bucharest
Jersey number	8th
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
2000-2005	CSŞ 5 Bucharest
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2006	HC Activ Ploieşti
2006-2009	Rulmentul Brașov
2009-2013	CS Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea
2013-2017	ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica
2017–	CSM Bucharest
National team
	Games (goals)
Romania	190 (781)
As of November 30, 2019

Cristina Georgiana Neagu (born August 26, 1988 in Bucharest ) is a Romanian handball player . She was awarded four times as a world handball player by the International Handball Federation in 2010, 2015, 2016 and 2018.

Career

society

Cristina Neagu played in Romania at CSS 5 Bucureşti, Rulmentul Brașov and from 2009 at CS Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea , with whom she won the championship in 2010 and reached the final of the EHF Champions League in 2010 , where they lost to the Danish club Viborg HK . At the beginning of 2011 she was voted World Handball Player of the Year 2010. In the same year, the 1.80 meter tall backcourt player injured her shoulder so badly that she was only able to play again 605 days later, in October 2012. In January 2013 she tore a cruciate ligament . After she had to leave Vâlcea at the end of the 2012/13 season due to financial problems of the club, she joined the Montenegrin first division club ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica . With Budućnost Podgorica, she won the championship and the Montenegrin Cup in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017. In 2015 she won the EHF Champions League with ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica. She was then voted World Handball Player of the Year 2015. She has been under contract with the Romanian club CSM Bucharest since the 2017/18 season .

National team

With the Romanian national team Neagu took part in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and won in the European Championship 2010 in Denmark and Norway , they in 53 hits scorer was the bronze medal . At the 2013 World Cup , she was the most successful Romanian thrower with 29 hits, eight of which were seven meters . At the 2014 European Championship , she was elected to the tournament's all-star team. At the 2015 World Cup she was third with Romania. Neagu was also the tournament's top scorer. She was also a member of the Romanian contingent for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . At the 2018 European Championships , where she finished fourth with Romania, she sustained a serious knee injury in the last main round match . Although Neagu could not then be used, she finished third in the scorers list with 44 hits.

successes

National team

• • U-17 Vice European Champion : 2005
  • 3rd place U-18 World Championship : 2006
  • 3rd place U-19 European Championship : 2007
  • 3rd place EM 2010
  • 3rd place 2015 World Cup
  • 4th place in the 2007 World Cup
  • 4th place EM 2018
  • 5th place EM 2008, 2016

society

• Rulmentul Brașov
  • Romanian runner-up: 2007, 2008
  • Romanian Vice Cup Winner: 2007
  • European Cup Winners' Cup finalist: 2008

• Oltchim Râmnicu Vâlcea
  • Romanian champion: 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
  • Romanian Cup Winner: 2011
  • Champions League finalist: 2010

• Budućnost Podgorica
  • Montenegrin champion: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Montenegrin Cup Winner: 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
  • Champions League winner: 2015
  • Champions League finalist: 2014

• CSM Bucharest
  • Romanian champion: 2018
  • Romanian Cup Winner: 2018, 2019

• Awards
  • MVP of the European Youth Championships 2005 and World Cup 2006
  • IHF Rookie of the Year: 2009
  • Top scorer in the 2010 European Championship and 2015 World Cup
  • Champions League top scorer: 2015, 2018
  • World handball player of the year 2010, 2015, 2016, 2018
  • MVP of the 2015 World Cup
  • All-Star Team of the 2010, 2014, 2016 and 2015 World Championships
  • All-Star Team of the Champions League: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Romania's handball woman of the year: 2009, 2010, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Web links

Commons : Cristina Neagu  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Cristina Neagu on the website of ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica
• Cristina Neagu in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Cristina Neagu in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Andreea Giuclea : Cristina Neagu: An 8 Worth a 10: How Cristina Neagu regained her place in the lead of world-class handball, in: DoR (Decât o Revistă), a journal of Romanian nonfiction, H. 23, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ japanhandball2019.com: ル ー マ ニ ア , accessed November 30, 2019
2. ↑ handball-world.com: Karabatic and Neagu are world handball players for the third time , accessed on March 16, 2017
3. ↑ https://www.sportschau.de/weiter/handball/welthandballer-mikkel-hansen-christina-neagu-100.html
4. ↑ ihf.info: Neagu and Jicha World Handball Players of the Year 2010 from January 13, 2011, accessed on October 23, 2013
5. ↑ handball-world.com: Season end for former world handball player Neagu from January 30, 2013, accessed on October 23, 2013
6. ↑ handball-world.com: Vâlcea separates from six top stars on May 26, 2013, accessed on October 23, 2013
7. ↑ handball-world.com: Podgoricas Neue: Weltklasse in attack, trainees in defense from June 24, 2013, accessed on October 23, 2013
8. ↑ handball-world.com: Romanian Neagu again world handball player , Kudlacz-Gloc fourth on June 9, 2016, accessed on June 9, 2016
9. ↑ handball-world.com: World handball player returns to Bucharest , accessed on February 22, 2017
10. ↑ 2010 Women's European Championship Top Scorers. In: eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation , accessed November 9, 2018 . 
11. ↑ ihf.info: XXI Women's World Championship 2013 Cumulative Statistics Romania (PDF; 46 kB), accessed on January 17, 2014
12. ↑ huncro2014.ehf-euro.com: EHF EURO All-star team announced ( Memento of December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 21, 2014
13. ↑ handball-world.com: Crina Pintea does not make the leap to Rio , accessed on August 15, 2016
14. ↑ fra2018.ehf-euro.com: TOP SCORER GOALS , accessed on December 24, 2018
15. ↑ handball-world.news: Hungary wins the derby, Romania also loses top star Neagu , accessed on December 24, 2018