Bárbara Elisabeth Arenhart (born 4 October 1986) is a Brazilian female

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goalkeeper for

RK Krim Rokometni klub Krim (), commonly referred to as RK Krim or simply Krim, currently named Krim Mercator due to sponsorship reasons, is a professional women's handball club from Ljubljana, Slovenia. Krim was founded in 1984 and has won the Slovenia ...

and the Brazilian national team. She is the captain of the Brazilian National Team. She is openly lesbian.

Career

Arenhart started her career at the Brazilian clubs Santa/Feevale and Metodista before heading to Europe in 2007, where she joined Spanish side Balonmano Parc Sagunto. Here, she won the

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in 2008. In the summer of 2010, she moved to the Norwegian club

Byåsen HE Byåsen Håndball Elite is the women's handball team of the Norwegian multi-sports club Byåsen IL based in Trondheim. The team plays in REMA 1000-ligaen, the top division in the country, since its promotion in 1982. The team's first success c ...

, before joining Austrian side

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 t ...

. Here, she won the Austrian League and Austrian cup three times and

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once. She also won the award for Player of the year in Austria in 2013. In February 2013, she announced that she would leave the club and joined the Romanian top club HCM Baia Mare together with Brazilian colleague

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. Here, she played for a year before joining Danish side NFH. Two years later, she joined Hungarian side Ipress Center-Vác in 2016, where she played for 4 years. In the 2020/21 season, she joined the Montenegrin side

ŽRK Budućnost Podgorica ŽRK Budućnost is a professional women's handball team from Podgorica, Montenegro (previously, the club also appeared under the names ZRK Budućnost MONET, Budućnost Brillant, Budućnost Bemax and Budućnost Titograd). Among the numerous title ...

. Here, she played for a single season, where she won both the Montenegrin League and the Montenegrin trophy, before joining Slovenian side

. Here, she has won the Slovenian Championship in 2022, 2023 and 2024 and the Slovenian Cup in 2022 and 2023.

Achievements

*Austrian League: **''Winner'': 2012, 2013, 2014 *Austrian Cup: **''Winner'': 2012, 2013, 2014 *Norwegian League: **''Silver Medalist'': 2011 * Romanian League: **''Finalist'':

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 ...

*Romanian Cup: **''Winner'': 2015 *Supercupa României: **''Winner'': 2014 *

Spanish Cup The , commonly known as , or (in English) the Spanish Cup or King's Cup, and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–1936) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–1976), is an annual knockout football competition in Spanish f ...

: **''Winner'': 2008 *

: **''Winner'': 2013 *

Baia Mare Champions Trophy The Baia Mare Champions Trophy () was a one-off pre-season international women's team handball tournament for clubs, held in Baia Mare, Romania. The competition was hosted by Liga Naţională club HCM Baia Mare and governed by the rules and regu ...

: **''Winner'':

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

Pan American Games The Pan American Games, known as the Pan Am Games, is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas. It features thousands of athletes participating in competitions to win different summer sports. It is held among athletes from nations of th ...

: **''Winner'':

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

: **''Winner'':

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

Pan American Championship A Pan American Championship is a top level international sports competition between athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs in the Americas. Typically these championships are recurring, the mos ...

: **''Winner'':

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

**''Silver Medalist'':

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

* South American Championship: **''Winner'': 2013 *Provident Cup: **''Winner'': 2013

Awards and recognition

*All-Star Goalkeeper of the

*Austrian Handball Federation Handballer of the Year – Women: 2013 *Austrian Handball Federation Goalkeeper of the Year – Women: 2013 * 2016 Women's Four Nations Tournament: Best Goalkeeper * All-Star Goalkeeper of the

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