Olimpiu-Dumitru Popescu-Colibași (16 March 1912 – 2 March 1993), nicknamed Tata Pik, was a Romanian handball

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player and author of books on sports. He had pioneered handball in the city of

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. Popescu-Colibași graduated from the A.N.E.F. in 1937. He helped develop many leading handball players during decades: including Anna Stark, Maria Scheip, Mara Windt, Gerlinde Reip, Edeltraut Franz-Sauer, Iuliana Nako, and Rodica Floroianu. As a rugby player, he won the national championship with TCR. In 1934, Popescu-Colibași and the Romania national rugby team appeared against

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/ref> Other honours followed his death: he is the namesake of the multi-purpose, 1,700-seat Dumitru Popescu Colibași Sports Hall in Brașov.

Biography

His father Stan Popescu, a school teacher, was the son of poor peasant farmers from Colibași commune. He had been killed in 1916 during World War I. Popescu-Colibași was raised by his grandfather in Dudești. His mother worked as a civil servant at the

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. Popescu-Colibași attended the high school in the Romanian capital living in the family of

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with whom he was a relative. He married Ivonna Demetrian in 1944, an employee of the

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Achievements

Handball 11s

;Progresul Brașov * Liga Națională: **''Winner'': 1956 **''Silver Medalist'': 1954 **''Bronze Medalist'': 1955, 1957

Handball 7s

;Tractorul Brașov * Liga Națională: **''Bronze Medalist'': 1959, 1962

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