Mariana Tîrcă (born 9 October 1962)[1] is a retired Romanian handball player.

[3] She has played 335 games for the Romanian national team, and scored 2043 goals.

Tîrcă played until the age of 41, and is currently the player with most goals for any handball national team in the world.

[4][5] Mariana Tîrcă is an honorary citizen of Croatia.

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