HANDBALL PLAYER

Gheorghe Gruia

1940 - 2015

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Gheorghe Gruia Marinescu (October 2, 1940 – December 9, 2015) was a Romanian handball player, coach, and sports official. Born in Bucharest, Gruia won two gold medals in the 1964 World Handball Championship and the 1970 World Championship. In the 1972 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal with Romania and became the top scorer of the competition with 37 goals. He played as a right back and spent his entire professional career with Steaua Bucharest. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gheorghe Gruia is the 6th most popular handball player (down from 5th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from Romania (down from 271st in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Handball Player.

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS

Among handball players, Gheorghe Gruia ranks 6 out of 420. Before him are Veselin Vujović, Talant Duyshebaev, Abaz Arslanagić, Franz Brunner, and Nikola Karabatić. After him are Mikkel Hansen, Magnus Wislander, Zinaida Turchyna, Ștefan Birtalan, Andrey Lavrov, and Ivano Balić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Gheorghe Gruia ranks 316. Before him are John Warnock, Grigory Kriss, Anzor Kavazashvili, William Cohen, Vincenzo Cerami, and Hanako, Princess Hitachi. After him are Vladimir Vasiliev, Helma Sanders-Brahms, Zhuang Zedong, Danilo Astori, Apolo Nsibambi, and Miguel Ángel Rodríguez. Among people deceased in 2015, Gheorghe Gruia ranks 262. Before him are Melissa Mathison, Richard Anthony, Karl H. Pribram, Elizabeth Wilson, Hermann Zapf, and Danièle Delorme. After him are Samuel Goldwyn Jr., Geoffrey Howe, Florence Arthaud, Theodore Bikel, Ludvík Vaculík, and Manorama.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Gheorghe Gruia ranks 312 out of 844. Before him are Ștefan Dobay (1909), Florin Răducioiu (1970), Gabriela Adameșteanu (1942), Ana Derșidan-Ene-Pascu (1944), Mugur Isărescu (1949), and István Kovács (1984). After him are Isidore Isou (1925), István Somodi (1885), Gheorghe Berceanu (1949), Aurel Popovici (1863), Lőrinc Schlauch (1824), and Ioan Slavici (1848).

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS In Romania

Among handball players born in Romania, Gheorghe Gruia ranks 1. After him are Ștefan Birtalan (1948), Cristian Gațu (1945), Radu Voina (1950), Gheorghe Dogărescu (1960), Marian Cozma (1982), Cristina Neagu (1988), Mihaela Ciobanu (1973), Gabriella Szűcs (1984), and Komail Mahfoodh (1992).

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