Werner Stöckl is a former Romania

Romania

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n handball

Team handball

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 player of German

Germans

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 ethnicity who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics

1972 Summer Olympics

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 and in the 1976 Summer Olympics

1976 Summer Olympics

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In 1972 he won the bronze medal with the Romanian team. He played all six matches and scored five goals.

Four years later he won the silver medal as part of the Romanian team. He played all five matches and scored seven goals.

Awards

• Honorary citizen of the municipality of Reșița
  Resita
  ' is a city in western Romania and the capital of Caraş-Severin County, in the Banat region. Its 2004 population was 83,985.- Etymology :The name of Reşiţa, might comes from the Latin recitia, meaning "cold spring", as the great historian Nicolae Iorga once suggested, presuming that the Romans...
  
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• 1974: Maestru emerit al sportului (≈ "Outstanding Master of Sports")
• 2009: Meritul Sportiv Cl. a II-a (≈ "Sports Award Second Class")

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