Iozefina Ștefănescu (; née Ugron; 3 January 1932 – 25 October 2015) 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. She was the captain of the Romania national team that won the 1962 IHF World Championship. At club level, she played for ICEF București or Știința București.

International trophies

* Outdoor World Championship **''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 ...

* Indoor World Championship: **''Gold Medalist'':

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 ...

References

1932 births 2015 deaths People from Covasna Romanian female handball players Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent Sportspeople from Covasna County 20th-century Romanian sportswomen {{Romania-handball-bio-stub