Alexandru Buligan

{{short description|Romanian handball player (born 1960)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}

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| image = Alexandru Buligan.jpg

| caption = A retired Romanian handball goalkeeper

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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|22 April 1960}}

| birth_place = Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania{{cite Sports-Reference |title=Alexandru Buligan |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/alexandru-buligan-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161202235759/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bu/alexandru-buligan-1.html |archive-date=2 December 2016}}

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| height = 200 cm

| weight = 89 kg

| sport = Handball

| club = Poli Timișoara (1977–81)
Steaua (1981–82)
Poli Timișoara (1982–88)
Dinamo București (1988–90)
JD Arrate (1990–94)
BM Guadalajara (1994–95)
SDC San Antonio (1995–2002)[http://www.cosr.ro/sportiv/alexandru-buligan Alexandru Buligan]. Romanian Olympic Committee

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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze| 1984 Los Angeles |Team}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championship}}

{{MedalBronze|1990 Czechoslovakia | Team }}

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Alexandru Buligan (born 22 April 1960) is a retired Romanian handball goalkeeper who played a record of 280 international games for Romania.{{cite web|url=http://www.reporterntv.ro/stire/nationala-de-handbal-a-romaniei-in-fata-unui-nou-inceput |title=Naționala de handbal a României în fața unui nou început |publisher=reporterntv.ro |date=24 January 2012 |author=Sorin Cealera |language=Romanian}} He won bronze medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1990 World Championships.{{cite web|url=http://www.eurohandball.com/article/010545/Buligan+Honoured+in+Timisoara|title=Buligan Honoured in Timișoara|publisher=European Handball Federation|date=23 August 2007|access-date=11 July 2016|archive-date=10 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610022949/http://www.eurohandball.com/article/010545/Buligan+Honoured+in+Timisoara|url-status=dead}}

At the club level he played in Romania until 1990 and in Spain from 1990 to 2002. After that he worked as a goalkeeper coach and assistant for the Spain men's national handball team, winning with them the 2005 World Men's Handball Championship.{{cite web|url=http://masdeporte.as.com/masdeporte/2005/02/25/polideportivo/1109372695_850215.html|title=El Rey pide a los campeones del mundo más títulos |publisher=Diario AS |date=25 February 2005 |author=Enrique Ojeda |language=Spanish}}