Cătălin Sasu (born 24 January 1968) is a Romanian former
rugby union
Rugby union football, commonly known simply as rugby union in English-speaking countries and rugby 15/XV in non-English-speaking world, Anglophone Europe, or often just rugby, is a Contact sport#Terminology, close-contact team sport that orig ...
international who represented
Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
in nine Test matches between 1989 and 1993.
A winger, Sasu played most of his domestic rugby with
Farul Constanța. In 1991 he represented Romania at the
Rugby World Cup
The Men's Rugby World Cup is a rugby union tournament contested every four years between the top international teams, the winners of which are recognised as the World championship, world champions of the sport.
The tournament is administer ...
, scoring tries against Canada and Fiji, the latter in a famous win. He also competed for Romania in
rugby sevens
Rugby sevens (commonly known simply as sevens, and originally seven-a-side rugby) is a variant of rugby union in which teams are made up of seven players playing seven-minute halves, instead of the usual 15 players playing 40-minute halves. R ...
, including at the
1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens
The 1993 Rugby World Cup Sevens was held at Murrayfield in Edinburgh, Scotland, in April 1993. This tournament was the inaugural Rugby World Cup Sevens tournament. The International Rugby Board invited the established rugby union nations but al ...
.
See also
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List of Romania national rugby union players
List of Romania national rugby union players is a list of people who have played for the Romania national rugby union team. The list only includes players who have played in a match recognized by the Romanian Rugby Federation as a test match, wh ...
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sasu, Catalin
1968 births
Living people
Romanian rugby union players
Romania international rugby union players
Sportspeople from Constanța
RCJ Farul Constanța players
Rugby union wings
1991 Rugby World Cup players