Maria Constantinescu (née Scheip; born 21 September 1934) is a Romanian former
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...
er who played for the
Romanian national team.
Trophies
Club
*
Liga Națională:
**''Winner'': 1961, 1963, 1967
*
European Champions Cup:
**''Winner'':
1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patria ...
National team
*
Field World Championship:
**''Gold Medalist'':
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...
,
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events January
* Janu ...
*
7-players World Championship:
**''Gold Medalist'':
1962
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.
Events January
* January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
Personal life
Constantinescu resides in
Bucharest
Bucharest ( , ; ) is the capital and largest city of Romania. The metropolis stands on the River Dâmbovița (river), Dâmbovița in south-eastern Romania. Its population is officially estimated at 1.76 million residents within a greater Buc ...
, where she regularly attends church.
Dreifache Weltmeisterin Maria Scheip-Constantinescu wird 80
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References
1934 births
Living people
Handball players from Brașov County
Romanian female handball players
Romanian people of German descent
20th-century Romanian sportswomen
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