Cornel Penu (born 16 June 1946) is a retired Romanian

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

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. He was named Best Goalkeeper at the 1974 World Championships, and was selected for the World Team three times: in 1973, 1975 and 1976. Penu took up handball in his hometown in 1958, and after enrolling to the

University of Galați "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati (Romanian ''Universitatea „Dunărea de Jos” din Galați'') is a public university located in Galați, Romania. It was founded in 1974. History The University of Galați, as it was named at first, was foun ...

he played for Știința Galați. He graduated in 1968 from the Machine Construction Technology Department. 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, and as of 2012 he was living in France. One of Penu's hobbies is painting.

Distinctions

*Honored Master of Sport, 1970 *Honored Citizen of Buzău, 2011

Bibliography

*Hristache Naum, ''Ultimul apărător'', 1983, Ed. Sport-Turism, Bucharest, 207 p.

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* * * 1946 births Living people Romanian male handball players CS Dinamo București (men's handball) players Handball players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 1976 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Romania Olympic silver medalists for Romania Olympic bronze medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in handball Sportspeople from Buzău Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics {{Romania-Olympic-medalist-stub