Gheorghe Leonte
| Date of birth | 12 February 1963 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | Fetești, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gheorghe Leonte (born Fetești, 12 February 1963) is a former Romanian rugby union footballer. He played as a prop.
Leonte first played for Steaua Bucuresti, until he moved to France, where he represented Miélan-Mirande and CS Vienne, the last team of his player career.
He had 57 caps for Romania, scoring 4 tries, 19 points in aggregate, from 12 March 1984, in a 28-22 win over Scotland, in Bucharest, in a friendly match, to 3 June 1995, in a 42-3 defeat to Australia, in Stellenbosch, for the 1995 Rugby World Cup finals.
Leonte played in three Rugby World Cup finals, having 2 caps at the 1987 Rugby World Cup, 3 caps at the 1991 Rugby World Cup and 3 once again at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, never scoring.[2]
Honours
[edit]- Steaua Bucuresti
- Divizia Nationala
- 1983/84, 1984/85, 1986/87, 1987/88, 1988/89, 1991/92
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- Gheorghe Leonte at ESPNscrum
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- 1963 births
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- People from Fetești
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- 1987 Rugby World Cup players
- 1991 Rugby World Cup players
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