Lorena Beučić is a Yugoslav 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. Born in Labin, Istria, she grew up in the local ŽRK Rudar Labin. She played for both the Yugoslavian and the Croatian national teams. In 1977 she was, together with Biserka Emer, Ema Gabrić, Željka Maras, Ornela Paliska, Snježana Perić and Jasna Ptujec one of the six Croatian players who were part of the broader

Yugoslavia women's national junior handball team The Yugoslavia women's national junior handball team was the national under-20 handball team of Yugoslavia. They were the junior branch of the Yugoslavia women's national handball team. They won the 1977 Women's Junior World Handball Championship, ...

that won the gold at the

1977 Women's Junior World Handball Championship The 1977 Women's Junior World Handball Championship was the first edition of the Women's Junior World Handball Championship with the tournament taking place in Romania from 30 September to 7 October 1977. Fourteen teams competed in the competiti ...

in Romania. It is the only gold won by Yugoslavia women's national junior handball team.

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Croatian female handball players Yugoslav female handball players Year of birth missing (living people) Living people People from Labin Sportspeople from Istria County {{Yugoslavia-handball-bio-stub