Erzsébet Kocsis (born 11 March 1965) is a Hungarian former
handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic 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 g ...
player and the current technical director of
Dunaújvárosi NKS. She was voted
IHF World Player of the Year in 1995 by the
International Handball Federation.
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She won 125 caps for the
Hungarian national team
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between 1986 and 1996, and received a bronze medal at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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and a silver medal at the
1995 World Championship.
At club level, she won all three major continental titles with Dunaújváros. First in 1995 the
EHF Cup Winners' Cup, four years later the
EHF Cup, and in 1999 the
EHF Champions League. She gave up professional handball in 2000, however, following her former team lost most of their players due to financial problems, she returned into action in 2009, helping Dunaújváros to avoid relegation.
She is married to Árpád Sári, a former handballer. Their daughter,
Barbara Sári is also a professional handball player.
Achievements
Club
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Nemzeti Bajnokság I:
**''Winner'': 1998, 1999
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Magyar Kupa:
**''Winner'': 1998, 1999
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EHF Champions League:
**''Winner'': 1999
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EHF Cup:
**''Winner'': 1998
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EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
**''Winner'': 1995
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EHF Champions Trophy:
**''Winners'': 1999
**''Third Placed'': 1998
**''Fourth Placed'': 1995
International
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Olympic Games:
**''Bronze Medalist'': 1996
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World Championship:
**''Silver Medalist'': 1995
Awards and recognition
* Nemzeti Bajnokság I Top Scorer: 1993
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Hungarian Handballer of the Year: 1992, 1994
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IHF World Player of the Year: 1995
References
External links
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1965 births
Living people
Hungarian female handball players
Olympic handball players for Hungary
Olympic medalists in handball
Olympic bronze medalists for Hungary
Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Győri Audi ETO KC players
Sportspeople from Győr
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