Julija Portjanko ( mk, Јулија Портјанко; born Yuliya Ihorivna Portyanko, uk, Юлія Ігорівна Портянко; 20 April 1983 – 12 October 2021),
also known as Julija Nikolić ( mk, Јулија Николиќ; uk, Юлія Ігорівна Ніколич, Yuliya Ihorivna Nikolich), was a
Macedonian 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. She last played for the club
ŽRK Vardar
ŽRK Vardar ( mk, ЖРК Вардар) is a Macedonian women's handball club from Skopje, North Macedonia. The team currently competes in the Macedonian women's First League of Handball, Women’s Regional Handball League and used to be a top ...
and for the
Macedonia national team. She represented Macedonia at the
2008 European Women's Handball Championship,
where Macedonia finished 7th, and Portjanko was among the top-ten goalscorers at the championship.
On 3 June 2012, after leading Macedonia to qualification for the
2012 European Women's Handball Championship she announced her retirement from the national team.
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1983 births
2021 deaths
Macedonian female handball players
Macedonian people of Ukrainian descent
Ukrainian emigrants to North Macedonia
Sportspeople from Dnipro
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