Nándor Fazekas (born 16 October 1976), is a retired 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. He made his international debut on 13 May 1998 against

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. Since then he participated on six World Championships (1999, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2017) and five European Championships (2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012). He was also member of the Hungarian teams which finished fourth at the

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and the one that finished 4th at the

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His sons Gergő and Máté are also professional handball players.

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'': 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2010, 2011, 2012 **''Runner-up'': 2000 * Magyar Kupa: **''Winner'': 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2011, 2012 **''Finalist'': 2001 * DHB-Pokal: **''Finalist'': 2009 * EHF Champions League: **''Finalist'': 2002 **''Semifinalist'': 2003 * EHF Cup: **''Winner'': 2009 * EHF Champions Trophy: **''Finalist'': 2002

Individual awards

*Hungarian Goalkeeper of the Year: 2009, 2010, 2012 * Golden Cross of the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2012)

References

External links

Nándor Fazekas player profile on MKB Veszprém KC official websiteNándor Fazekas career statistics at Worldhandball
1976 births Living people Sportspeople from Kecskemét Handball players from Bács-Kiskun County Hungarian male handball players Olympic handball players for Hungary Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Hungarian expatriate handball players in Germany Handball-Bundesliga players VfL Gummersbach players TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke players Veszprém KC players Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Qatar {{Hungary-handball-bio-stub