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Gheorghe Gruia

1940 - 2015

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Gheorghe Gruia Marinescu (October 2, 1940 – December 9, 2015) was a Romanian handball player, coach and sports official. Born in Bucharest, Gruia won the gold medal in the 1964 World Handball Championship and the 1970 World Championship. In the 1972 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal with the Romanian team and become the top scorer of the competition with 37 goals. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gheorghe Gruia has received more than 45,517 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Gheorghe Gruia is the 3rd most popular handball player (down from 1st in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Romania (up from 283rd in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Handball Player.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.37

    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS

Among handball players, Gheorghe Gruia ranks 3 out of 304. Before him are Nikola Karabatić and Talant Duyshebaev. After him are Mikkel Hansen, Veselin Vujović, Magnus Wislander, Ivano Balić, Andrey Lavrov, Abaz Arslanagić, Franz Brunner, Ljubomir Vranjes, and Zinaida Turchyna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Gheorghe Gruia ranks 254. Before him are Bruce Beresford, Hiroshi Katayama, Jesús López Cobos, Marcelino Martínez, Veikko Kankkonen, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. After him are Valie Export, Tommy Lawrence, Reinhard Bonnke, Fleur Jaeggy, Godfrey Reggio, and Pharoah Sanders. Among people deceased in 2015, Gheorghe Gruia ranks 194. Before him are Ján Chryzostom Korec, Yogi Berra, Movita Castaneda, Ron Clarke, Guy Béart, and Ahmed Chalabi. After him are Bernard Maris, Tignous, Robert Manzon, Karl H. Pribram, Charb, and Jacques Sernas.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Gheorghe Gruia ranks 245 out of 665. Before him are Ion G. Duca (1879), George Coșbuc (1866), Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877), Sándor Végh (1912), Viorica Dăncilă (1963), and Sándor Veress (1907). After him are Theodor Aman (1831), András Kovács (1925), Elena Văcărescu (1864), Miodrag Belodedici (1964), Ion Gigurtu (1886), and Aaron Aaronsohn (1876).

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS In Romania

Among handball players born in Romania, Gheorghe Gruia ranks 1. After him are Ștefan Birtalan (1948), Radu Voina (1950), Marian Cozma (1982), and Cristina Neagu (1988).

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