Paula-Claudia Ungureanu (née Rădulescu; born 30 March 1980) is a Romanian

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er who plays for

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. She retired from the Romania national team in 2016. Ungureanu successfully replaced

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after her retirement. Shortly after taking these positions she became known for a high percentage of saves in games and for managing difficult saves in key points of games. Paula Ungureanu ranked fourth on the Top Goalkeepers list of the

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with a 41% save rate. In the 2014 European Championship, she ranked second after

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on the Top Goalkeepers list with a 40% save rate.

Honours

Clubs

*Austrian Championship: **''Champion'': 2005, 2006 *Austrian Cup: **''Winner'': 2005, 2006 * Hungarian Championship **''Runner-up'': 2008 *

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**''Finalist'': 2008 * Croatian Championship **''Champion'': 2009 *Croatian Cup: **''Winner'': 2009 * Romanian Championship **''Champion:'' 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017 *Romanian Cup **''Winner'': 2011, 2014, 2015 *Romanian Supercup **''Winner'': 2014, 2015 **''Finalist'': 2018 * Champions League: **''Silver Medalist'':

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

**''Bronze Medalist'':

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

National team

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

: **''Silver Medalist'': 2005 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2015 *

European Championship A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

: **''Bronze Medalist'': 2010

Individual awards

* Carpathian Trophy Best Goalkeeper: 2010, 2012 * Romanian Handballer of the Year: 2012, 2014 * Memoriálu Tomáša Jakubču Best Goalkeeper: 2013 * Team of the Tournament Goalkeeper of the Trofeul Maramureș: 2013 *

Baia Mare Champions Trophy The Baia Mare Champions Trophy () was a one-off pre-season international women's team handball tournament for clubs, held in Baia Mare, Romania. The competition was hosted by Liga Naţională club HCM Baia Mare and governed by the rules and regu ...

Best Goalkeeper:

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

* Team of the Tournament Goalkeeper of the Baia Mare Champions Trophy: 2014 * Handball-Planet.com Best Goalkeeper: 2015 * Romanian Liga Națională Best Romanian Player: 2015, 2016 *

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All-Star Goalkeeper of the Romanian Liga Națională: 2017

References

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