Jelena Grubišić (born 20 January 1987) is a retired Croatian handballer who played for the Croatia national team. She was given the award of ''Cetățean de onoare'' (" Honorary Citizen") of the city of

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in 2016. She was inducted in the European Handball Hall of Fame in 2023.

International honours

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'':

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 ...

**''Bronze Medalist'':

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Individual awards

Most Valuable Player In team sports, a most valuable player (MVP) award is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, in the instance of a tie) whose individual performance is the greatest in an entire league, for a particular competition, or ...

of the Final Four of

*Croatian Female Handballer of the Year: 2016 * Balkan-Handball.com Ex-Yugoslavian Handballer of the Year: 2016 *All-Star Goalkeeper of the Romanian League: 2021

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* 1987 births Living people Croatian female handball players 21st-century Croatian sportswomen Olympic handball players for Croatia Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Handball players from Zagreb Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Győri Audi ETO KC players Expatriate handball players in Slovenia Croatian expatriate handball players in Romania Croatian expatriate handball players in Hungary {{Croatia-handball-bio-stub