Cornel Penu
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Competitor for  Romania
| ||
| Olympic Games | ||
| Men's Handball | ||
| Silver | 1976 Montreal | Team |
| Bronze | 1972 Munich | Team |
| World Championship | ||
| Men's Handball | ||
| Bronze | 1967 Sweden | Team |
| Gold | 1970 France | Team |
| Gold | 1974 GDR | Team |
Cornel Penu (born June 16, 1946 in Buzău[1]) is a former Romanian handball player who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics. He is a double world champion.
He started playing handball in his hometown in 1958, and after becoming a universuty student in Galați he played for Știința Galați. He graduated in 1968 from the Machine Construction Technology Department of the Galați University.[2] The same year he transferred to Dinamo Bucharest, where he stays until 1980, when he retires from active play. After that he held several coaching positions: goalkeeping coach for the Romanian men's national team, at Dinamo Bucharest, H.C.M. Constanţa, A.S.A Buzău, Morocco (Marrakesh), France (Sedan).
In 1972, he won the bronze medal with the Romanian team. He played all six matches as goalkeeper. In 1976, he won the silver medal as part of the Romanian team. He played all five matches as goalkeeper.
In 1974, at the World Championship, he was named "Best Goalkeeper".[3] Between 1974 and 1978 he was selected to play in three games as a member of the World Team.[3]
All in all, he played 266 games for the national team.
He left Romania in 1993 to work in Morocco, and as of 2012 he was living in France.[1][4]
One of Penu's hobbies is painting.[5]
Awards
Book about him
- Hristache Naum, Ultimul apărător, 1983, Ed. Sport-Turism, Bucharest, 207 p.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cornel Penu: "De 6 ani am ales Franţa, după 9 petrecuţi în Maroc"" (in Romanian). Retrieved May 19, 2014.
- ↑ "Fostul mare handbalist Cornel Penu a fost la Galaţi, la 45 de ani de la absolvirea Facultăţii" (in Romanian). Retrieved May 19, 2014.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 ""80 de ani de handbal in Romania" 1921 – 2001" (in Romanian). Retrieved May 19, 2014.
- ↑ "Eroi au fost eroi sunt inca" (in Romanian). Retrieved February 15, 2013.
- ↑ "Cornel Penu, portar si pictor" (in Romanian). Retrieved May 19, 2014.
- ↑ "Orasul Buzau, mai bogat cu cinci cetateni de onoaare" (in Romanian). Retrieved May 19, 2014.