Goran Šprem (born 6 July 1979) is a Croatian former

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. Šprem started his professional career with

RK Zagreb Rukometni klub Zagreb (, ) is a men's professional handball club from Zagreb, Croatia. It competes in the Croatian Premier League and the EHF Champions League. RK Zagreb has won 38 national championships and the national cup 32 times. The c ...

in the late 1990s. He also spent a season with

RK Medveščak Zagreb 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 meth ...

in 2001 and 2002, before returning to RK Zagreb for a second spell with the club between 2002 and 2004. He eventually left RK Zagreb for German side

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 ...

in October 2004. He left Flensburg for a short spell with TuS Nettelstedt in February 2005, returning to the club in the summer of the same year and eventually spending a season with them. In the summer of 2006, he left Flensburg for a short spell with

MT Melsungen MT Melsungen is a German handball team from Melsungen, Germany, that plays in the Handball-Bundesliga. History From 1992 to 2005, the team played in the 2. Handball-Bundesliga and finished third twice (in 1997/98 and 2003/2004). In the 20 ...

, before joining his current club, HSG Nordhorn, in November 2006. He left Nordhorn in 2009. Šprem is also a member of the Croatian national handball team, with whom he won gold medals at the

2003 World Men's Handball Championship The 2003 World Men's Handball Championship took place in Portugal from 20 January to 2 February 2003. It was the 18th edition of the World Championship in team handball and Croatia men's national handball team, Croatia won the championship. Ven ...

and the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...

."2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 1, 2008) He also won two silver medals with the Croatian national team at the

World Men's Handball Championship The IHF Men's Handball World Championship has been organized indoor by the International Handball Federation since 1938. In the twenty-nine tournaments held, twelve national teams have won the title. France is the most successful team with six ...

s in

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 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 ...

, and participated at the

2006 European Men's Handball Championship The 2006 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the seventh edition of the tournament and held in Switzerland from 26 January to 5 February 2006, in the cities of Basel, Bern, Lucerne, St. Gallen and Zürich. France won the tournament, goi ...

, where Croatia finished fourth. Since his retirement he's been a pundit on

RTL Televizija RTL (previously known as RTL Televizija) is a Croatian free-to-air television network founded on 30 April 2004. It was owned by the RTL Group from 2004 to 2022. Since 1 June 2022, it is owned by the CME Group. It is the second commercial television ...

Honours

;Zagreb * Dukat Premier League **Winner (9): 1996-97, 1997–98, 1998–99, 1999-00, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2003–04, 2009–10, 2010–11 * Croatian Cup **Winner (8): 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011 *

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 ...

**Finalist (2): 1997-98, 1998-99 ;SG Flensburg-Handewitt *

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 ...

**Winner (1): 2005 ;HSG Nordhorn *

EHF Cup The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

**Winner (1): 2008 ;Individual *

Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport () is the highest recognition that Republic of Croatia gives for extraordinary achievements and contributions of remarkable meaning for the development of sport in Croatia. This award has been given since 1991. I ...

- 2004

Orders

* Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar - 2004

References

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1979 births Living people Sportspeople from Dubrovnik Croatian male handball players Croatian expatriate handball players in Germany Olympic handball players for Croatia Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Croatia in handball RK Zagreb players Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Croatia Competitors at the 2001 Mediterranean Games Mediterranean Games medalists in handball SG Flensburg-Handewitt players VfL Gummersbach players MT Melsungen players HSG Nordhorn-Lingen players TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke players 21st-century Croatian sportsmen {{Croatia-Olympic-medalist-stub