Blaženko Lacković (born 25 December 1980) is a retired Croatian

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 ...

player. He is World champion from 2003,"Croatia"
– ''European Handball Federation (2008)'' (Retrieved on February 1, 2008) and Olympic champion from 2004 with the Croatia national team."2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 1, 2008) He received silver medals at the

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 2009 World championships, silver medals at the

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

and 2010 European championships and bronze medals at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, the 2012 European Championship and the 2013 World Championship.

Clubs

Lacković has played for the Croatian clubs ''RK Varteks di Caprio'', Metković and RK Zagreb. He was a member of German club

SG Flensburg-Handewitt SG Flensburg-Handewitt is a professional handball club from Flensburg and Handewitt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and EHF European League. They play home matches at Flens-Arena. Since formin ...

, which reached the

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 ...

final in 2007. He eventually won the title with HSV Hamburg during the 2012–13 season. After six years in Hamburg Lacković signed for Macedonian side RK Vardar Skopje in the summer of 2014.On February 3, 2016 Lackovic signed for German club

THW Kiel THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles. 2007 and 2012 were the most successful years in the club's history, as THW completed t ...

. In Kiel he plays with his teammates in national team

Domagoj Duvnjak Domagoj Duvnjak (born 1 June 1988) is a Croatian professional handball player for THW Kiel. Regarded as one of the best handball players of all time, he was named the IHF World Player of the Year in 2013 and has won over twenty titles playing ...

and Ilija Brozovic.

Honours

;Zagreb * Croatian First League (3): 2001-02, 2002–03, 2003–04 * Croatian Cup (3): 2002, 2003, 2004 ;Flensburg *

DHB-Pokal The DHB-Pokal (English: German Handball Federation Cup) is an elimination handball tournament held annually in Germany. It is the second most important handball national title in the country after the Handball-Bundesliga championship. DHB-Pokal ...

(1): 2005 *

Finalist (1): 2006-07 ;HSV *

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...

(1): 2010-11 *

(1): 2010 *Super Cup (2): 2009, 2010 *

(1): 2012-13 ;Vardar * Macedonian Super League (2): 2014-15, 2015–16 * Macedonian Cup (2): 2015, 2016 * SEHA League (1): 2015-16 ;Kiel *

(1): 2017 ;Individual * Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport - 2004 *3rd top assist at 2006 European Championship *Best left back at 2009 World Championship

Orders

* Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar

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