Ana Starck-Stănișel (née Starck; 28 January 1935 – 26 March 2024), also known as Ana Stark-Stănișel or as Anna Stark-Stănișel, was a Romanian

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. Starck-Stănișel died in

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on 26 March 2024, at the age of 89. At the

1962 World Women's Handball Championship The 1962 World Women's Handball Championship was the second Women's Handball World Championship. It took place in Romania in 1962. As five years earlier, the competition was played with only seven players on the field, outdoor, on clay, in broa ...

she won gold medals with the Romanian team, beating

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in the final. She was joint topscorer together with Marie Matuje with 14 goals.

Trophies

* Liga Națională: **''Winner'': 1961, 1962, 1963, 1967 *Cupa României: **''Winner'': 1956, 1961 * 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 ...

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: **''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 ...

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 ...

* Carpathian Trophy: **''Winner'': 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1966, 1967

References

1935 births 2024 deaths Handball players from Bucharest Romanian female handball players Romanian expatriate sportspeople in West Germany Romanian expatriate handball players in Germany Romanian people of German descent Handball players from Brașov County 20th-century Romanian sportswomen {{Romania-handball-bio-stub