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While the IHF has only reported awards since 1988, other players have been voted best players in the world before. Thus, the Romanian Ștefan Birtalan was elected World Player of the Year in 1974, 1976 and 1977. [14] And Ioan Moser of Romania was also named "Best Handball Player in the World” in 1964. [15]
Nikola Karabatić (born 11 April 1984) is a French former professional handball player. He is regarded as one of the greatest players in handball history. [1]With the French national handball team, he won three Olympic gold medals (Summer Olympics of 2008, 2012 and 2020), four World Championship gold medals (2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017) as well as four gold medals in the European Championship ...
Mikkel Hansen (born 22 October 1987) is a Danish former professional handball player. [1] [2] [3]Widely regarded as the greatest handball player of all time. Hansen has won the IHF World Player of the Year a record-tying three times. [4]
He also won two World singles championships, and two world doubles championships during this part of his career. Throughout this period (1994-2004), Chapman was the number one ranked professional handball player in the world (except for part of 2001). [2] Chapman retired in 2004 but returned to the game in 2008 and played until 2012.
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball [3] or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes ...
In 2007, when he was 19, Karabatic started to train handball with the youth team of Montpellier Handball as center back. In 2009 he joined the senior team of the club, in the same year his older brother returned to Montpellier AHB again. In his first two years as professional player, Karabatic won the French championship two times in 2009 and ...
Kiril "Kire" Lazarov (Macedonian: Кирил „Кире“ Лазаров, born 10 May 1980) is a Macedonian former professional handball player and current coach of the North Macedonia national handball team and RK Alkaloid, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.
Born in Split, Ivano was the only child of handball players, mother Stjepanka and father Žarko Balić. After the first three months of his birth, Balić moved with his parents to Italy because of his father's professional career.