IHF World Player of the Year

IHF World Player of the Year
Award details
Sport Handball
Competition International Handball
Given for Best Performance in International Handball Competitions
History
First award 1988
First winner Men's - Veselin Vujović Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Women's - Svetlana Kitić Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Most wins Talant Dujshebaev Spain (1994, 1996)
Bojana Radulovic Hungary (2000, 2003)
Ivano Balić Croatia (2003, 2006)
Nikola Karabatić France (2007, 2014)
Cristina Neagu Romania (2010, 2015)
Mikkel Hansen Denmark (2011, 2015)
Most recent Men's - Mikkel Hansen Denmark (2nd Title)
Women's - Cristina Neagu Romania (2nd Title)

The IHF World Player of the Year is a handball award given annually to the player who is considered to have performed the best in the previous season, both at club and internacional competitions. It is awarded based on votes Fans, media and an IHF expert group.

About

The award was awarded by IHF since 1988 in both Men's and Women's Category separately.

No award was awarded in the year 1991, 1992, 1993.

Men

Year Winner Country Ref.
1988 Veselin Vujović  Yugoslavia
1989 Kang Jae-Won  South Korea
1990 Magnus Wislander  Sweden
1991 No vote
1992
1993
1994 Talant Dujshebaev  Russia
1995 Jackson Richardson  France
1996 Talant Dujshebaev (2)  Spain
1997 Stéphane Stoecklin  France (2)
1998 Daniel Stephan  Germany
1999 Rafael Guijosa  Spain (2)
2000 Dragan Škrbić  Yugoslavia (2)
2001 Yoon Kyung-Shin  South Korea (2)
2002 Bertrand Gille  France (3)
2003 Ivano Balić  Croatia
2004 Henning Fritz  Germany (2)
2005 Arpad Šterbik  Serbia and Montenegro (3)
2006 Ivano Balić (2)  Croatia (2)
2007 Nikola Karabatić  France (4)
2008 Thierry Omeyer  France (5)[1]
2009 Sławomir Szmal  Poland[2]
2010 Filip Jícha  Czech Republic[3]
2011 Mikkel Hansen  Denmark[4]
2012 Daniel Narcisse  France (6)[5]
2013 Domagoj Duvnjak  Croatia (3)
2014 Nikola Karabatić (2)  France (7)
2015 Mikkel Hansen (2)  Denmark (2)

Women

Year Winner Country
1988 Svetlana Kitić  Yugoslavia
1989 Kim Hyun-Mee  South Korea
1990 Jasna Kolar-Merdan  Austria
1991 No vote
1992
1993
1994 Mia Hermansson  Sweden
1995 Erzsébet Kocsis  Hungary
1996 Lim O-Kyeong  South Korea
1997 Anja Andersen  Denmark
1998 Trine Haltvik  Norway
1999 Ausra Fridrikas  Austria
2000 Bojana Radulović  Hungary
2001 Cecilie Leganger  Norway
2002 Zhai Chao  China
2003 Bojana Radulović (2)  Hungary
2004 Anita Kulcsár  Hungary
2005 Anita Görbicz  Hungary
2006 Nadine Krause  Germany
2007 Gro Hammerseng  Norway
2008 Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth[6]  Norway
2009 Allison Pineau[7]  France
2010 Cristina Neagu[3]  Romania
2011 Heidi Løke[4]  Norway
2012 Alexandra do Nascimento[5]  Brazil
2013 Andrea Lekić  Serbia
2014 Eduarda Amorim  Brazil
2015 Cristina Neagu (2)  Romania

References

  1. ↑ "Player of the Year - Men 2008". IHF. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
  2. ↑ "Player of the Year - Men 2009". IHF. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
  3. 1 2 "Neagu and Jicha World Handball Players of the Year 2010". IHF. Retrieved 13 January 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Heidi Løke and Mikkel Hansen World Handball Players of the Year 2011". International Handball Federation. 1 March 2012. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
  5. 1 2 "Alexandra do Nascimento and Daniel Narcisse are GRUNDFOS World Handball Players of the Year 2012". International Handball Federation. 8 January 2013. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  6. ↑ "Player of the Year - Women 2008". IHF. Retrieved 7 December 2010.
  7. ↑ "Player of the Year - Women 2009". IHF. Retrieved 7 December 2010.

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