Márta Giba (; born 1943) is a former Hungarian

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 and World champion, who was voted the

Hungarian Handballer of the Year The Hungarian Handballer of the Year award is an annual prize, which is given to the Hungarian handballer who is considered to have performed the best over the previous calendar year. Presented by the Hungarian Handball Federation since 1964, the ...

in 1971. A one-team player, Giba played for

Ferencvárosi TC Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...

between 1962 and 1979, during which period she won three Hungarian championships and as many Hungarian cup titles. She also obtained

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in 1978. She played 68 times for the Hungarian national team; with them she triumphed at the 1965 World Championship and won the bronze medal of the

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

and

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edition.

Achievements

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system. Twelve ...

: **''Winner'': 1968, 1969, 1971 *

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: **''Winner'': 1967, 1970, 1977 * European Champions Cup: **''Finalist'': 1971 *

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: **''Winner'': 1978 **''Finalist'': 1979 *

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: **''Winner'': 1965 **''Bronze Medalist'': 1971, 1973

Individual awards

: 1971

References

* Kozák, Péter (1995). ''Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben?: (A–H)''. Szekszárd: Babits Kiadó. . 1943 births Living people Handball players from Budapest Hungarian female handball players 20th-century Hungarian sportswomen {{Hungary-handball-bio-stub