Levente Elekes

Levente Elekes
Date of birth	March 29, 1972
place of birth	Miercurea Ciuc , Romania
size	183 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1993-2009	SC Miercurea Ciuc
2009-2010	SCM 68 Fenestela Brașov
2010-2011	HC Dunărea Galați
since 2011	SC Miercurea Ciuc

Levente Elekes (born March 29, 1972 in Miercurea Ciuc , Harghita district ) is a Romanian ice hockey player and coach who has been under contract as a player- coach at SC Miercurea Ciuc in the Romanian ice hockey league since 2011 .

Career

Levente Elekes began his career as an ice hockey player in his hometown with SC Miercurea Ciuc , for whose professional team he was active in the Romanian ice hockey league from 1993 to 2009 and also in the Hungarian ice hockey league from 2006 to 2008 . During this time, the attacker and his team won the national championship title six times (1997, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2009) and five times the national cup competition (1995, 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2007). In addition, Elekes won the Pannonian League in 2004 with Miercurea Ciuc . He himself was the top scorer in the Romanian league in 1995 and 1999. Only at the beginning of the 1999/00 season did the left shooter, who otherwise remained loyal to his home club, play for their league rivals HC Dinamo Bucharest . In the 2008/09 season he took part with SC Miercurea Ciuc in the newly founded MOL League , in which he scored 20 scorer points, including nine goals, in 34 games.

For the 2009/10 season , Elekes moved within the MOL League to SCM 68 Fenestela Brașov , where he was able to increase to 29 scorer points, including 19 goals, in 23 games. In the 2010/11 season he played in the Romanian ice hockey league for HC Dunărea Galați . For the 2011/12 season he returned to his home club SC Miercurea Ciuc, where he became a player-coach for the second team from the Romanian ice hockey league.

International

For Romania , Elekes took part in the junior division of the U18 Junior B European Championship in 1990 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the C World Championships in 1997 , 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 and 2006 as well as the B World Championships in 1995 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 and 2007 and in qualifying for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin .

Achievements and Awards

1995 Romanian cup winner with SC Miercurea Ciuc 1995 top scorer in the Romanian ice hockey league 1997 Romanian champion with SC Miercurea Ciuc 1999 top scorer in the Romanian ice hockey league 2000 Romanian champion with the SC Miercurea Ciuc 2001 Romanian cup winner with SC Miercurea Ciuc 2003 Romanian cup winner with SC Miercurea Ciuc

2004 Romanian champion with SC Miercurea Ciuc 2004 Champion of the Pannionic League with SC Miercurea Ciuc 2006 Romanian cup winner with SC Miercurea Ciuc 2007 Romanian champion with SC Miercurea Ciuc 2007 Romanian cup winner with SC Miercurea Ciuc 2008 Romanian champion with SC Miercurea Ciuc 2009 Romanian champion with SC Miercurea Ciuc

International

• 2001 Promotion to Division I at the World Championship Division II
• 2001 Topscorer of the World Championship Division II, Group B
• 2001 World Cup Division II, Group B top scorer
• 2003 Best goalscorer at the World Cup in Division I, Group A (together with Evgeni Koreschkow , David Livingston and Damian Słaboń )
• 2006 Promotion to Division I at the World Cup Division II

Web links

• Levente Elekes at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Levente Elekes at eurohockey.com