#Danu Secrieru

The man who bought a garage to build a weightlifting gym. Two world champions came out of it

Gheorghe Gorencu worked six years in Spain, came back to Unțești and bought a garage that was up for sale in the village, to turn it into a weightlifting gym. He never charged rent, paid the electricity out of his own salary and took no money from the children. National-team lists name him as the coach of Nicoleta Cojocaru — from the age of eleven — and of Danu Secrieru. He died in 2023. Since 2025, the village of Unțești no longer appears at all in the national weightlifting squad lists.