Anita Görbicz (born 13 May 1983) is a Hungarian former professional

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er. She is widely regarded as one of the best handball players of all time, and was voted IHF World Player of the Year in 2005 by the

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. Görbicz has also been given the nickname the ''Queen of Handball'' internationally. She is married; her husband is Ottó Vincze, a Hungarian former football player. They have two sons, Boldizsár, born in 2015 and Domonkos, born in 2022. She is the ''Honorary Citizen'' of

Győr Győr ( , ; ; names of European cities in different languages: E-H#G, names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia region, and – halfwa ...

. She was included in the

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Hall of Fame in 2023.

Career

Club

Anita Görbicz started her career at Hungarian club

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 1993, aged 10. She has become a key member of the team and her absence is considered a notable disadvantage. With ETO, Görbicz has won the Hungarian Championship and Cup several times. At European level, she has reached the finals of the

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and EHF Cup. Győri ETO reached the final stage of the Champions League for the first time in

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. Due to a knee injury a few days before the matches, Görbicz missed the finals where the Győr side lost against Danish champion

Viborg HK Viborg HK (Viborg Håndbold Klub) is a Danish professional handball club from Viborg, Denmark, Viborg. The club has many teams for both women and men, but especially the professional women's team is one of the most successful in Danish and Euro ...

. In spite of this, she ranked second in the tournament's top goalscorers list. Anita scored her 2000th goal in the Hungarian Championship in January 2018. She has won the

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trophy five times.

International

Görbicz participated in the 2003 World Championship where Hungary lost the final match against

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. She received a bronze medal at the 2004 European Championship. In Russia 2005 she won bronze with her team. Anita Görbicz has seen her performance with the national team officially recognized several times. She has been a member of the World Championship All-Star Team three times in a row:

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2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

and

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. She was also among the tournament top goalscorers in 2005 (ranked third) and 2007 (ranked second). She was part of the Hungarian team at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in

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, and again at the 2008 Olympic Games in

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. In 2004 the Hungarian team placed fifth, after losing to the French team in the quarterfinals, and beating

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and Spain in the placement matches. At the 2008 Olympic Games Hungary placed fourth, after beating

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in the quarterfinals and qualifying for the semifinals, losing to

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in the semi, and then losing to South Korea in the bronze final. Görbicz scored 49 goals at the 2008 Olympics, second only to Romania's Ramona Maier. Anita announced her retirement from the national team on 10 December 2017 after

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failed to qualify to the quarter-finals of the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship.

Personal life

Her first husband was András Présing. They married in 2006, and divorced after 17 months. Anita is married to former football player Ottó Vincze. She gave birth to their son, Boldizsár in June 2015. It was announced on 13 June 2022 that she's expecting her second child, Domonkos who was born in October 2022.

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 (13)'': 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 **''Silver Medalist'': 2000, 2004, 2007, 2015 **''Bronze Medalist'': 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003 * Magyar Kupa: **''Winner (15)'': 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021 **''Finalist'': 2000, 2002, 2004, 2017 *

: **''Winner (5)'': 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 **''Finalist'': 2009, 2012, 2016 **''Semifinalist'': 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2021 * EHF Cup Winners' Cup: **''Finalist'': 2006 **''Semifinalist'': 2003 * EHF Cup: **''Finalist'': 2002, 2004, 2005 * Junior World Championship: **''Silver Medalist'': 2001 *

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: **''Silver Medalist'': 2003 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2005 * European Championship: **''Bronze Medalist'': 2004, 2012

Individual awards

* IHF World Player of the Year: 2005 * Hungarian Handballer of the Year: 2005, 2006, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2017 * Nemzeti Bajnokság I Top Scorer: 2008 * All-Star Playmaker of the World Championship: 2003, 2005, 2007, 2013 * Prima Award: 2009 * EHF Champions League Top Scorer: 2012, 2014 * Carpathian Trophy Top Scorer: 2012,

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 ...

* All Star Team of the

: 2014 * EHF Female Player of the Month: ''May'' 2017, ''June'' 2017, ''April'' 2018

References

External links

Anita Görbicz player profile on Győri Audi ETO KC Official WebsiteAnita Görbicz career statistics at Worldhandball
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gorbicz, Anita 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Veszprém Handball players from Veszprém County Hungarian female handball players Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Hungary Győri Audi ETO KC players 21st-century Hungarian sportswomen