Joan Cañellas Reixach (born 30 September 1986) is a Spanish 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. Cañellas scored 50 goals for Spain at the 2014 European Championship in Denmark. He was the tournament's top scorer. While playing in Madrid, he also studied

pharmacy Pharmacy is the science and practice of discovering, producing, preparing, dispensing, reviewing and monitoring medications, aiming to ensure the safe, effective, and affordable use of medication, medicines. It is a miscellaneous science as it ...

University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona (official name in ; UB), formerly also known as Central University of Barcelona (), is a public research university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was established in 1450. With 76,000 students, ...

and

Universidad Complutense de Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

. Joan is a member of a pharmacist dynasty, six of his family members are pharmacists.

Honours and awards

F.C.Barcelona

* Spanish League: 2005–06 * Spanish Cup: 2007 * Spanish Supercup: 2007

BM. Ciudad Real

* Spanish League: 2009–2010 * Spanish Cup: 2010 * Super Globe: 2010 * Asobal Cup: 2010 * Spanish Supercup: 2010 *

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: 2010–11

BM. Atletico de Madrid

* Super Globe: 2012 * Spanish SuperCup: 2011 * Spanish Cup: 2011, 2012 *

Finalist: 2011–12

THW Kiel

Handball-Bundesliga The Handball-Bundesliga (HBL) is the top German professional handball league. From 2007 to 2012, the league was sponsored by Toyota and was officially called the ''Toyota Handball-Bundesliga''. In 2012 the Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB) became t ...

: 2014–2015 *

DHB-Supercup The DHB-Supercup (English: German Handball Supercup) is an handball tournament held annually between the Handball-Bundesliga champions and the DHB-Pokal champion. Results Total titles won See also * Handball-Bundesliga * DHB-Pokal The DHB- ...

: 2015, 2016

Vardar Skopje

Winner: 2016–17 * Macedonian Handball Super League: 2016–17, 2017–18 * Macedonian Handball Cup: 2016, 2017 * SEHA League: 2016, 2017 * Macedonian Handball Super Cup: 2017

MOL-Pick Szeged

* Magyar Kézilabdakupa: 2018–2019 * Magyar Kézilabdaliga: 2020–2021

Kadetten Schaffhausen

* Swiss Handball League: 2021-22, 2022–23, 2023–24 * Schweizer Cup: 2024

Individual

* MVP of the SEHA League Final Four:

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 ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Canellas, Joan 1986 births Living people Spanish male handball players Spanish expatriate handball players in Germany Spanish expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia Liga ASOBAL players BM Granollers players FC Barcelona Handbol players BM Ciudad Real players Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Spain THW Kiel players RK Vardar players SC Pick Szeged players Handball-Bundesliga players People from Vallès Oriental Handball players from the Province of Barcelona Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Spanish expatriate handball players in Hungary Expatriate handball players in North Macedonia Expatriate handball players in Switzerland Handball SV Hamburg players 21st-century Spanish sportsmen