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Bożena Karkut
Bożena Karkut (born 30 June 1961) is a Polish handball player and coach. At the 1990 World Women's Handball Championship, 1990 World Championship she was the top scorer with 50 goals. She is manager for Zagłębie Lubin (women's handball), Zagłębie Lubin since 2000. References 1961 births Living people Sportspeople from Wrocław Handball players from Lower Silesian Voivodeship Polish handball coaches {{Poland-handball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrocław
Wrocław is a city in southwestern Poland, and the capital of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship. It is the largest city and historical capital of the region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the Oder River in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, roughly from the Sudetes, Sudeten Mountains to the north. In 2023, the official population of Wrocław was 674,132, making it the third-largest city in Poland. The population of the Wrocław metropolitan area is around 1.25 million. Wrocław is the historical capital of Silesia and Lower Silesia. The history of the city dates back over 1,000 years; at various times, it has been part of the Kingdom of Poland, the Kingdom of Bohemia, the Kingdom of Hungary, the Habsburg monarchy of Austria, the Kingdom of Prussia and German Reich, Germany, until it became again part of Poland in 1945 immediately after World War II. Wrocław is a College town, university city with a student population of over 130,000, making it one of the most yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. The territory has a varied landscape, diverse ecosystems, and a temperate climate. Poland is composed of Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the List of European countries by area, fifth largest EU country by area, covering . The capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city is Warsaw; other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, and Gdańsk. Prehistory and protohistory of Poland, Prehistoric human activity on Polish soil dates to the Lower Paleolithic, with continuous settlement since the end of the Last Gla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KŚ AZS Wrocław
KŚ AZS Wrocław was a women's football team based in Wrocław, Poland. The football team was officially a part of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology's sporting section, called AZS-AWF Wrocław (founded in 1976). The ladies football club section of AZS-AWF Wrocław was founded in 1997 and quickly became a dominant force in women's football in Poland. During their 23 years as a club they won the Polish Championship eight times, with all eight titles being won consecutively from 2001–2008. They also finished second twice and finished third four times. As a club they didn't finish outside of the top three between 2000–2011. AZS Wrocław have also had success in the Polish Cup, winning the competition four times. On 13 May 2020 it was announced that AZS Wrocław had reached an agreement with Śląsk Wrocław Wrocławski Klub Sportowy Śląsk Wrocław Spółka Akcyjna, commonly known as WKS Śląsk Wrocław (), is a Polish professional Association football, foot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RK Voždovac
RK may refer to: Science and technology * Radial keratotomy, a surgical procedure on the eye * Rhodopsin kinase, an enzyme * r/K selection theory, in biology, relating to the trade-off between quantity and quality of offspring * Runge–Kutta methods, in numerical analysis Airlines * Royal Khmer Airlines (former IATA code: RK), ceased operations 2007 * R Airlines (former IATA code: RK), ceased operations 2018 * Ryanair UK (IATA code: RK), UK based subsidiary airline of Ryanair Other uses * Raising Kaine, a defunct Virginia political blog * Reichskommissariat, a historical Nazi territorial division * Rangkasbitung railway station, station code RK * Ridwan Kamil, former governor of West Java province since 2018-2023 See also * RK (), Finnish assault rifles; for example RK 62 * Republic of Korea (ROK) * Republic of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Easte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IL Vestar
Idrettslaget Vestar was a Norwegian sports club from Oslo established in 1953, with sections for team handball and athletics. It was founded as Vestlendingenes IL, indicating its status as a club for people from Western Norway who had moved to Oslo. It took the name IL Vestar in 1960. It is best known for its women's handball team, which dominated the First Division for much of the 1970s, winning seven titles in a row between 1972 and 1978. This makes it the championship's second most successful club after Larvik HK. Its major international success was reaching the semifinals of the 1977 European Cup, where it was defeated by SC Leipzig. Its best known players were Karen Fladset, Kristin Midthun, Linn Siri Jensen, Ingrid Steen and Cathrine Svendsen. In athletics, their best known athlete was sprinter Richard Simonsen. One other sprinter won national gold medals; Kåre Magne Åmot in the 100 metres in 1980 and 1981. Handball player Karen Fladset was also a good discus throwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypo Niederösterreich
Hypo Niederösterreich (Hypo NÖ) is an Austrian women's handball club, headquartered in Maria Enzersdorf. They are one of the most successful teams on the EHF Champions League, having won the title eight times. They are also former winners of the EHF Champions Trophy in 2000. Between 2011 and 2014, Hypo NÖ had a partnership with the Brazilian Handball Confederation, playing host to various players of the Brazil women's national handball team - including Alexandra Nascimento, who already played for Hypo since 2003 - and coach Morten Soubak. During the period, Brazil won the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship with six Hypo Nö players in its roster. Hypo Nö also won the EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup that year. History Founding and the first years Hypo Niederösterreich was founded in 1972 by a group of successful Austrian athletes, among others, Liese Prokop, Maria Sykora and Eva Janko, and the coach Gunnar Prokop. In just a few years Hypo NÖ established itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zagłębie Lubin (women's Handball)
MKS Zagłębie Lubin is a women's handball club from Lubin, Poland, that plays in the Superliga. Achievements * Superliga: **Champions: 2011, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 **Runners-up: 1995, 2000, 2002, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 **Third place: 1996, 2001, 2007, 2008 * Puchar Polski: **Winners: 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2025 **Runners-up: 1998, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2022 * EHF Cup: **Semifinalists: 2001 * EHF Cup Winners' Cup: **Semifinalists: 2002 Team Current squad :''Squad for the 2024–25 season'' ;Goalkeepers * 16 Barbara Zima * 37 Marta Lewalska * 99 Monika Maliczkiewicz ;Wingers ;LW *6 Kinga Grzyb * 00 Weronika Weber ;RW * 4 Aneta Łabuda * 17 Adrianna Górna * 00 Natalia Janas ;Line players * 6 Natalia Pankowska * 20 Joanna Drabik * 00 Goundouba Guirassy ;Back players ;LB * 00 Mariane Fernándes * 14 Daria Przywara * 81 Karolina Jureńczyk ;CB * 47 Karolina Kochaniak-Sala * 49 ... [...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] |
1990 World Women's Handball Championship
The 1990 World Women's Handball Championship was the 10th edition of the tournament. It took place in South Korea between 24 November to 4 December 1990. It was the first World Championship not played in a European country. The championship was held after the German reunification, although East and West Germany participated separately. Qualification ;Host nation * ;Qualified from the 1988 Summer Olympics * * * ;Qualified from the 1989 World Championship B * * * * * * * * * ;Qualified from the 1989 Asian Women's Handball Championship * ;Qualified from the 1989 Pan American Women's Handball Championship * ;Qualified from the 1989 African Women's Handball Championship * Main round Group 1 Results * * Results carried over from Preliminary Round Group 2 Results * Results carried over from Preliminary Round Finals Final standings References SourceInternational Handball Federation External links Official report {{W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handball-Bundesliga
The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. From 2007 to 2012, the league was sponsored by Toyota and was officially called the ''Toyota Handball-Bundesliga''. In 2012 the Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) became the new sponsor. , the latest league sponsor is Daikin and the official name has consequently been changed to Daikin Handball-Bundesliga. The winners of the respective season are the official German handball champions. The HBL is headquartered in Dortmund. History The Bundesliga was introduced with the 1966/67 season and initially operated with two regional sections, North and South. Since 1977 the Bundesliga has operated with a single section first division, currently composed of eighteen clubs. In 1981 a ''2.Bundesliga'' was introduced as a new second division, supplanting the ''Regionalliga'' which became the third tier. The ''2.Bundesliga'' used to consist of two (resp. three in the first two years after the German reunification) sectio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Births
Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti enters the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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