Roberto Julián Duranona
Personal information
Born (1965-12-08) 8 December 1965
Cuba
Nationality Cuban / Icelandic
Height 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current club Retired
Senior clubs
Years Team
0000–1995
 SC Havanna
1995–1997
 KA Akureyri
1997–2000
 ThSV Eisenach
2000–2002
 TuS N-Lübbecke
2002–2003
 HSG Wetzlar
2003–2004
 TSV Hannover-Burgdorf
2004–2005
 HSG Vulkan Vogelsberg
2005–2006
 BM Castellón
National team
Years Team Apps
?–1994
 Cuba 270
1996–200?
 Iceland 61 (202)

Roberto Julián Duranona (born 8 December 1965) is a Cuban-Icelandic former handball player. His demarcation on the field was left backcourt.

Duranona participated with the Cuba men's national handball team on the World Men's Handball Championship in 1986, where his team finished 15th out of 16, but with 50 goals he finished second on the top goalscorers list behind Jae-Won Kang of Korea. Four years later in 1990, Cuba finished 14th out of 16, but Duranona became the top scorer of the tournament with 55 goals, tied with Aleksandr Tuchkin of the Soviet Union. He gained all together 270 caps in the Cuban national team.

In 1994 Duranona went to Argentina to complete his degree in physical education.[1] In 1995 he moved to play for KA Akureyri in Iceland, where he also got the citizenship, and played 61 times for the Iceland men's national handball team, scoring 202 goals.[2] In 1997 he changed to ThSV Eisenach in Germany,[3] where he scored 426 goals in three seasons. In 2000 he moved to TuS Nettelstedt, from where in 2002 he switched to HSG Wetzlar.[4] His last known team was Castellón in Spain where he moved in 2006.[1]

He was 202 cm high,[5] weighed 110 kg, and wore size 51 shoes.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 El cubano que vino del frío
  2. ↑ Ingvi Þór Sæmundsson (12 May 2020). "Guðjón Valur rifjaði upp kostuleg samskipti við Duranona í upphafi landsliðsferilsins". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  3. ↑ Róbert Julian Duranona, handknattleiksmaður, leikur með...
  4. ↑ Julian Duranona soll Gennadij Chalepo im linken Rückraum der HSG ersetzen
  5. ↑ Víðir Sigurðsson (27 January 2001). "Sá fyrst handbolta 18 ára". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  6. ↑ Um Róbert Julian Duranona


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