Gergő Iváncsik (born 30 November 1981) is a former Hungarian handballer who played for Telekom Veszprém and for the Hungarian national team. He retired from handball in 2017.

Career

Club

He started to play handball at the age of nine in the elementary school and later became a member of the Győri ETO FKC youth team. He made her senior debut for the Győr-based club in 1998. The talented left winger quickly caught the eyes of Hungarian top club

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, and he was signed by the champions in 2000. Since then, Iváncsik won a number of various medals and trophies both on domestic and continental level, including the

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title in 2008.

International

He won a gold medal at the European Youth Championship in 1999 and led the Hungarian national team to fourth place at the Junior World Championships in 2001. He made his full international debut against

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on 26 October 2000. His first major tournament was the 2003 World Championship. He participated at further four

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(2007, 2009, 2011, 2013) and was present at seven European Championships (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016). He was also member of the Hungarian team that finished fourth at the

2004 Olympic Games The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

and 2012 Olympic Games.

Personal

His father,

Mihály Iváncsik Mihály Iváncsik (born 9 July 1959 in Máriapócs) is a Hungarian people, Hungarian former team handball, handball player. He played in right wing position and was known of his tricky, screwed shots. Career Club He started to play handba ...

is a former handball player, who has won the IHF Cup in 1986 and received silver medal on the

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in the same year. He has two younger brothers, Tamás Iváncsik and Ádám Iváncsik. Both of them are professional handball players and Hungarian internationals. He is married. His wife, Vera gave birth to a boy, Máté, on 3 February 2009, soon after Iváncsik returned from the

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. Their second son, Milán was born in March 2014.

Achievements

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, "National Championship"), also known as NB I, is the top level of the Hungarian football league system. The league is officially named OTP Bank Liga after its title sponsor OTP Bank. UEFA currently ranks the league 28th ...

: **''Winner'': 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 **''Silver Medalist'': 2007 *

Magyar Kupa The Hungarian Cup ( hu, Magyar Kupa) is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association, the ''Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség,'' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of the Hungarian ...

: **''Winner'': 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 **''Silver Medalist'': 2006, 2008 *

EHF Champions League The Men's EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men ...

: **''Finalist'': 2002, 2015, 2016 **''Semifinalist'': 2003, 2006, 2014, 2017 *

: **''Winner'': 2008 * EHF Champions Trophy: **''Finalist'': 2002, 2008

Individual awards

Hungarian Handballer of the Year The Hungarian Handballer of the Year award is an annual prize, which is given to the Hungarian handballer who is considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. Presented by the Hungarian Handball Federation since 1964, the m ...

: 2010 *

HUN Cross of Merit of the Hungarian Rep (civil) Gold BAR

Golden Cross of the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2012)

References

External links

Gergő Iváncsik player profile on MKB Veszprém KC official website

Gergő Iváncsik career statistics at Worldhandball
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ivancsik, Gergo 1981 births Living people Hungarian male handball players Olympic handball players of Hungary Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Győr Veszprém KC players