Ornela Paliska 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. She started playing handball for Labin's

ŽRK Rudar Labin ŽRK Rudar Labin is a Croatian women's handball club based in Labin. It was established in 1954. It plays in the 2. HRL West. Several notable players from the club went on the play for the national team, both Croatia's and Yugoslavia's. The play ...

. She was part of ŽRK Rudar Labin's golden generation that played in the Yugoslav First League with Rudar. In 1977 she was, together with

Lorena Beučić Lorena Beučić is a Yugoslav former handball 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 Gabr ...

, Biserka Emer, Ema Gabrić, Željka Maras, 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 at the World Championship. In 2011, at an event in occasion of the signing of a cooperation agreement between Mladi Rudar Labin and the Balić - Metličić Academy, presided by many former handball players, including

Ivano Balić Ivano Balić (; born 1 April 1979) is a Croatian former professional handballer who is currently working as assistant coach (sport), coach of the Croatia men's national handball team, Croatia national handball team. He was voted five times in a ...

, Adriana Prosenjak,

Karmen Kokot Karmen Kokot is a Croatian former handball player. Born in Labin, Istria, she played for local club ŽRK Rudar Labin. She was part of the golden generation of ŽRK Rudar Labin's players who played in the Yugoslav Premier League. As a youth, K ...

and Valner Franković, she performed at an exhibition game with the other greatest players in Labin's history, including Kokot, Prosenjak and Ingrid Zuliani. Also several other members of her family were handball players.

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