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Handball

Florin Orban, 09.12.2020, 13:45

Romanias women handball team found out its opponents in the main group stage of the European Championship hosted by Denmark. Romania is scheduled to play against Croatia on Thursday, against Hungary on Monday, December 14, and one day later against defending world champions the Netherlands. They were all part of Group C, in which Croatia came out first, followed by Hungary and the Netherlands. Romania goes into Main Group 2 with no points, after it lost to Norway and Germany, the teams in Group D that moved up.

At this championship in Denmark, the Romanian Cristina Neagu became the first player to reach 250 goals scored in the history of the European competition. Neagu scored for the 250th time in Mondays match against Norway. Romanias left back started the European championship with 237 goals, and now she has reached 253.

Neagu was already the top scorer in the history of the European Championship in the 2018 edition, when she broke Hungarian Agnes Farkass record of 205 goals scored between 1994 and 2002.

Named the worlds best player by the International Handball Federation in 2010, 2015, 2016 and 2018, Neagu is not in best shape at EURO 2020, after having tested positive for COVID-19 last month.

She still has the fastest throw in the tournament, at 129 km/h. She also has the second-best number of assists, 615, after her teammate Cristina Laslo, with 624. And she is Romanias top scorer in Denmark, with 16 goals in 46 throws, accounting for a 35% rate. (translated by: Ana-Maria Popescu)