Anikó Cirjenics-Kovacsics (born 29 August 1991) is a retired Hungarian

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 thr ...

er who most recently played for

Ferencvárosi TC Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...

and the Hungarian national team. She started to play at the young age of 10. She signed to

Győri ETO KC Győri ETO KC (, lit. Concordance Gymnastics Department of Győr Handball Club) is a Hungary, Hungarian professional women's handball club from Győr. Since they are sponsored by Audi, the official name for the team is Győri Audi ETO KC. On dome ...

in 2006, where she quickly rose through the ranks and became a regular member of the first team at a very young age. At that time she was reputed as a possible successor of world-class playmaker and former teammate Anita Görbicz. Since she had to play on the left wing instead of her favoured playmaker position she decided to leave Győr in 2016, and signed for Ferencváros. Kovacsics made her international debut on 22 September 2009 against

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. She represented Hungary at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, on five

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(2009, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019) and also participated on five

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(2010, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020). Anikó scored 15 goals against SG BBM Bietigheim in the 2018–19 Women's EHF Champions League season.

Achievements

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system. Twelve ...

: **''Winner'': 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2021 *

Magyar Kupa The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...

: **''Winner'': 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024 *

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

: **''Winner'': 2013, 2014 **''Finalist'': 2009, 2012, 2016, 2023 **''Semifinalist'': 2010, 2011 * Women's 19 European Championship: **''Silver Medalist'': 2009 *

: **''Bronze Medalist'': 2012

Individual awards

Hungarian Handballer of the Year The Hungarian Handballer of the Year award is an annual prize, which is given to the Hungarian handballer who is considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. Presented by the Hungarian Handball Federation since 1964, the ...

: 2018 * Hungarian Junior Handballer of the Year: 2009, 2010 * Junior Prima Award: 2010 * All-Star Team Best Centre Back of the

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

* All-Star Team Best Left Wing of the

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Personal life

She has two younger brothers, Péter and Ferenc, both of them are professional handball players. Her husband is Miklós Cirjenics, Hungarian judoka. Their son, Marcell was born in June 2022.

References

External links

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Profile on Győri Audi ETO KC Official WebsiteCareer statistics at Worldhandball
1991 births Living people People from Nagyatád Hungarian female handball players Győri Audi ETO KC players Hungarian people of Serbian descent Ferencvárosi TC players (women's handball) Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Somogy County Olympic handball players for Hungary 21st-century Hungarian sportswomen {{Hungary-handball-bio-stub