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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 players are nicknamed ''the swans''. History In 1964 the club reached for the first time the playoffs to the first Yugoslav league. In 1966, Rudar reached the playoffs again, but was eliminated by Rijeka's Zamet. In 1974 they reached the finals of the Croatian Cup, eliminating Zagreb's Lokomotiva. In 1976, the youth team won the Croatian championship. The first team won the title of second league champions in 1976/77, won the qualifications in Belgrade and thus reached Yugoslavia's first league. This is the greatest success for Labin in handball, and one of Istria's greatest achievements in sports. In the 1981/82 season they won the Yugoslavian second league, losing only one game when they were already qualified, and thus were promoted to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatia
Croatia, officially the Republic of Croatia, is a country in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. It borders Slovenia to the northwest, Hungary to the northeast, Serbia to the east, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Italy to the west. Its capital and largest city, Zagreb, forms one of the country's Administrative divisions of Croatia, primary subdivisions, with Counties of Croatia, twenty counties. Other major urban centers include Split, Croatia, Split, Rijeka and Osijek. The country spans , and has a population of nearly 3.9 million. The Croats arrived in modern-day Croatia, then part of Illyria, Roman Illyria, in the late 6th century. By the 7th century, they had organized the territory into Duchy of Croatia, two duchies. Croatia was first internationally recognized as independent on 7 June 879 during the reign of Duke Branimir of Croatia, Branimir. Tomislav of Croatia, Tomis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evelina Galo
Evelina Galo is a Croatian former handball player. She has been credited as one of the greatest players in Yugoslavia's history. Biography Galo was born in Labin, Istria (today Croatia, then Yugoslavia). She started playing for her hometown club, ŽRK Rudar Labin. She played as a regular for Yugoslavia women's A national team. With Yugoslavia, Galo took part in several international competitions, including the 1978 World Championship in Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca .... She played a total of 35 games for Yugoslavia. She was a valuable player for Yugoslavia, and today is regarded as ŽRK Rudar Labin's greatest player of all time. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Galo, Evelina Croatian female handball players Yugoslav female handball players Yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 Establishments In Croatia
Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 member radio stations. * January 21 – The first nuclear-powered submarine, the , is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport In Labin
Sport is a physical activity or game, often Competition, competitive and organization, organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be Open (sport), open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MRK Rudar Labin
Muški rukometni klub Rudar (''MRK Rudar''; ''Rudar''; ''Rudar Labin'') was a men's handball club from Labin, Istria County. History The club was founded as the Handball Section of DTO "Partizan" in March 1954. The women's team was formed in the fall of 1955. It started competing in the Istrian Sub-Federal League in the spring of 1955, and played as "Partizan Podlabin". In the seasons 1958/59 and 1959/60 "Partizan" played in the Primorsko-Istarska regional league. In the 1960/61 season it did not perform, and in the 1961/62 season and 1962/63 they played in the ''Istarskoj zonskoj ligi'', and in the 1963/64 season in the Inter-municipal league Pazin-Rovinj-Pula-Labin. In 1964, it became RK "Rudar". From the 1964/65 season to 1966/67 they played in the Istrian Regional League, and starting from 1967/68 in the Primorsko-Istarska regional league, where they played until the 1973/74 season. In 1974 they won the championship and thus were placed in the United Croatian League, which the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Prosenjak
Adriana Prosenjak (born 12 July 1963) is a Croatian former handball coach and player. Considered a legendary player and a celebrated name in Croatian handball, she was the goalkeeper and the first captain of the Croatia women's national handball team. She was named the best handball player in Croatia in 1993. Biography She was born on July 7, 1963, in Labin, Istria. She started playing at 10 for her hometown club ŽRK Rudar Labin, and went through all the selections at the Istrian club. With Labin's first team, she managed to get promoted to the Yugoslav First League. After playing for the ''swans'', she moved to ŽRK Lokomotiva Zagreb. At Lokomotiva she won the EHF European League and the last Yugoslav Championship before the dissolution of the country. She spent 11 years at Lokomotiva, where she also won a Croatian Championship and a Croatian Cup in 1992. She then moved to Sweden and Austria and ended her career at ŽRK Đurđevac, where she started her coaching career. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ornela Paliska
Ornela Paliska is a Yugoslav former handball player. She started playing handball for Labin's ŽRK Rudar Labin. 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, 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 that won the gold at the 1977 Women's Junior World Handball Championship 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, Lorena Beučić, Adriana Prosenjak Adriana Prosenjak (born 12 July 1963) is a Croatian former handball coach and player. Considered a le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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, Kokot played for Yugoslavia women's national junior handball team. She was named best player of the Yugoslavian junior league playing for Rudar, and became a standard player in Yugolavia's national team. She also played for Yugoslavia women's national handball team with the B team. 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, Lorena Beučić, Adriana Prosenjak, Ornela Paliska Ornela Paliska is a Yugoslav former handball player. She started playing handball for Labin's ŽRK Rudar Labin. She was part of ŽRK Rudar Labin's golden generation that played in the Yugoslav First League ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suzana Golja
Suzana Golja (''Golja-Zulijani'') is a Croatian former handball player. She was born in Labin, Istria (today Croatia, at the time SR Croatia in SFR Yugoslavia). Golja started playing with local club ŽRK Rudar Labin. She played for Norwegian club Junkeren in the Eliteserien Eliteserien () is a professional association football league in Norway and the highest level of the Norwegian football league system. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Norwegian First Division ... in the 1990s. Golja was a player of the Croatian national handball team. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Golja, Suzana Croatian female handball players Year of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Labin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 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 that won the gold at the 1977 Women's Junior World Handball Championship in Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to .... It is the only gold won by Yugoslavia women's national junior handball team. References Croatian female handball players Yugoslav female handball players Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Sportspeop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handball
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 goal of the opposing team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins. Modern handball is played on a court of , with a goal in the middle of each end. The goals are surrounded by a zone where only the defending goalkeeper is allowed; goals must be scored by throwing the ball from outside the zone or while "diving" into it. The sport is usually played indoors, but outdoor variants exist in the forms of field handball, Czech handball (which were more common in the past) and beach handball. The game is fast and high-scoring: professional teams now typically score between 20 and 35 goals each, though lower scores were not uncommon until a few decades ago. Body contact ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
