Mihai Lazăr
 Lazăr with Romania in 2011. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Mihăiță Lazăr | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | 3 November 1986[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Iași, Romania | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 120 kg (18 st 13 lb; 260 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rugby union career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mihăiță "Mihai" Lazăr (born 3 November 1986) is a Romanian rugby union player who plays as a prop for Liga Națională de Rugby club SCM Rugby Timișoara. He also played for the Romania national team, The Oaks.[2]
Lazăr made his debut for Romania national team in 2008 against Czech Republic, in a 76-7 win.[3] He played three matches at the 2011 Rugby World Cup, scoring a try against Scotland (24-34) and then collecting accolades in the pages of The New Zealand Herald newspaper.[4]
On 1 June 2013, he clinched his first ever title, winning the Top 14 final with Castres Olympique. He won his second Top 14 title in 2018.[5] In 2019 he moved to the Pro D2 club Oyonnax, for which he played until the end of 2021.
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- Castres Olympique
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Mihăiță Lazăr". castres-olympique.com. Archived from the original on 2014-08-21.
- ^ "Mihai Lazăr". itsrugby.co.uk.
- ^ ""Stejarii" au făcut instrucţie cu Cehia" (in Romanian). Prosport. 22 March 2008.
- ^ "Rugby World Cup: Ten mighty minnows". The New Zealand Herald. 9 October 2011.
- ^ "Comment Castres a battu Toulon" (in French). L'Équipe. 2 June 2013.
- ^ "KOCKOTT TAKES CASTRES TO THE TOP". rugby365.com. 1 June 2013. Retrieved 13 March 2021.
External links
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- Mihai Lazar at ESPNscrum
- Mihai Lazar at ItsRugby.co.uk
- Mihai Lazar at European Professional Club Rugby
- Mihai Lazar at European Professional Club Rugby (archived)
- Mihaïta Lazar at Castres Olympique
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- Sportspeople from Iași
- 1986 births
- Living people
- Romanian rugby union players
- Rugby union props
- București Wolves players
- CS Politehnica Iași (rugby union) players
- Castres Olympique players
- Provence Rugby players
- FC Grenoble Rugby players
- Oyonnax Rugby players
- Romanian expatriate rugby union players in France
- Romania international rugby union players
- 2011 Rugby World Cup players
- 2015 Rugby World Cup players
- Romanian rugby union biography stubs