Nikola Karabatić
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Nikola Karabatić | ||
| Date of birth | April 11, 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Niš, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Playing position | Left Back | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Montpellier HB | ||
| Number | 22 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2000-2005 | Montpellier HB | (236) | |
| 2005-2009 | THW Kiel | 122 | (757) |
| 2009- | Montpellier HB | ||
| National team | |||
| 2000- | France | 141 | (602) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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| Medal record | ||
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| Men's handball | ||
Competitor for  France |
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| Summer Olympics | ||
| Gold | 2008 Beijing | Team competition |
| World Championships | ||
| Gold | 2011 Sweden | Team competition |
| Gold | 2009 Croatia | Team competition |
| Bronze | 2003 Portugal | Team competition |
| Bronze | 2005 Tunisia | Team competition |
| European Championships | ||
| Gold | 2006 Switzerland | Team competition |
| Gold | 2010 Austria | Team competition |
| Bronze | 2008 Norway | Team competition |
Nikola Karabatić (Serbian: Никола Карабатић; born April 11, 1984 in Niš, Serbia (then SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia)) is a French team handball player of Yugoslavian origin[1].
He was part of the French national handball team[2] that won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship. He was top scorer at the championship together with Ivano Balić and Lars Christiansen, and was voted as Most Valuable Player at the championship. He also won the gold medal with France at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, beating Iceland 28-23 and scoring 8 goals.
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[edit] With the French national team
He is World Champion, Olympic and European Champion. He is European Champion from 2006, and received a bronze medal in 2008. He has received two bronze medals at the World Championships, in 2003 and 2005. At the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship he was voted into the All-Star Team, when France finished fourth. He was also voted into the All Star Team at the 2004 European Men's Handball Championship.
[edit] Club player
Karabatić played for the German club THW Kiel, becoming German champions in 2006 2007 and 2008, and winning the EHF Champions League in 2007. He is earlier French champion in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 with the club Montpellier HB, which also won the Champions League in 2003. The summer 2009 he left Germany for the French top club, Montpellier HB.
[edit] Personal
Nikola was born to a Croatian father and Serbian mother. Nikola's father Branko Karabatić who is originally from a village near Trogir (Croatia), was also a professional handball player.[3] In his career, Branko played for the Železničar handball team from Niš, which is where he met his wife Radmila who is from Aleksinac, Serbia.[4] The family moved to France when Nikola was 3 and a half years old after Branko got a coaching job there.
Nikola has a brother Luka.
He speaks his native Serbo-Croatian at home with both, mother and father[5], French and English.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uowbgsk-TaM
- ^ "France" – European Handbal Federation (2008) (Retrieved on January 31, 2008)
- ^ SVI SMO NAVIJALI ZA NAŠU HRVATSKU , Slobodna Dalmacija, July 21, 2003
- ^ Код куће говоримо само српски , Ilustrovana Politika, January 22, 2009
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uowbgsk-TaM
[edit] External links
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- 1984 births
- Living people
- French handball players
- French people of Croatian descent
- French people of Serbian descent
- Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic handball players of France
- Olympic gold medalists for France
- People from Niš
- Montpellier Agglomération Handball players
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Serbian emigrants to France
