James Lewis Parker (born 9 June 1994) is an Argentine
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 who plays as a left handed for Egyptian club
Zamalek SC Handball
Zamalek Handball Club ( ar, نادي الزمالك لكرة اليد), also called "Commandos" (Arabic: الكوماندوز) commonly known as Zamalek H.C, or simply as Zamalek SC, is a Egyptian handball team based in Giza, Egypt. It is a part ...
and the
Argentina national team.
Early life
Parker was born in
San Nicolás de los Arroyos
San Nicolás de los Arroyos (usually shortened to ''San Nicolás'') is a city in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the western shore of the Paraná River, from Rosario. It has about 133,000 inhabitants (). It is the administrative seat ...
,
Buenos Aires, and grew up in
San Luis San Luis (Spanish for "Saint Louis") may refer to:
Places Argentina
* San Luis Province
* San Luis, Argentina, capital of San Luis Province Belize
* San Luis, Belize, in Orange Walk District Colombia
* San Luis, Antioquia, a town and municipality ...
. His father, also named James Parker, played
basketball in
Argentina.
Individual awards
*
2022 South and Central American Men's Handball Championship
The 2022 South and Central American Men's Handball Championship was the second edition of the South and Central American Men's Handball Championship, held from 25 to 29 January 2022 in Recife, Brazil. It acted as the South and Central American qual ...
: Best left back
References
1994 births
Living people
People from San Luis Province
Argentine male handball players
Argentine people of African-American descent
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Expatriate handball players
Afro-Argentine sportspeople
American people of Argentine descent
Argentine people of American descent
21st-century Argentine people
South American Games gold medalists for Argentina
South American Games medalists in handball
Competitors at the 2022 South American Games
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