Jelena Popović (born 4 September 1984) is a Serbian
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 ...
er who plays for the French club
Nantes Handball and the
Serbian national team.
Club career
Jelena played for the RK Medicinar Šabac,
HC Naisa Niš,
Kometal Gjorče Petrov Skopje
WHC Gjorche Petrov ( mk, Ракометен Клуб Ѓорче Петров) is a female handball club based in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia.
History
The club was founded in 1979 under the name ''Women's Handball Club Gjorče Petrov ...
,
ŽRK Zaječar
Ženski rukometni klub Zaječar (Serbian Cyrillic: Женски рукометни клуб Зајечар, en, Women's handball club Zaječar) is a women's handball club from Zaječar, Serbia. Currently, ŽRK Zaječar competes in the Handbal ...
,
ES Besançon
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and currently she is a member of the French team
Nantes Handball.
National team
Popović represented Serbia and Montenegro at the
2005 Mediterranean Games
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and won a silver medal. She played for the
Serbian national team at the
2012 European Handball Championship when the team finished 4th.
References
External links
EHF Profile
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Living people
1984 births
Serbs of Croatia
Sportspeople from Karlovac
Serbian female handball players
Expatriate handball players
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia
Serbian expatriate sportspeople in France
Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Serbia
Competitors at the 2005 Mediterranean Games
Mediterranean Games medalists in handball