France won gold medal on last IHF World Handball Championship, their goalkeeper Thierry Omeyer was MVP of the tournament and now France best player Nikola Karabatic is IHF Player of the Year.
For Nikola Karabatic this is second time that he gets this title, first time was in 2007. Interesting thing is that Nikola Karabatic is only third player in history that manages to win IHF player of the year award two times. Before him two times winner was Croatian star Ivano Balic in 2003 and 2006 and Talant Dujshebaev in 1994 and 1996. Interesting is that Dujshebaev won this title in 1994 as member of Russia national team and in 1996 as member of Spain national team. Karabatic is “only” 30 years old and he still have enough time to won this award one more time and to be alone on the top.
In this decision IFH involved journalist, handball experts and visitors of IFH web page after they count all votes there was around 55 000 votes. Karabatic gets 33.7%, Denmark star Mikkel Hansen got 21% and another France player Thierry Omeyer got “only” 19.5%.
We also got the best women player and that was Brazilian player Eduarda Amorim. Amorim was the MVP of the last World Handball Championship for women that held in Hungary and Croatia last year. Amorim manage to get 35.2% of the votes, behind her was Romania player Cristine Neagu 25.8% who won this award back in 2010. Another ex-winner Norway player Heidi Loke was on third place with 16.8%. This is Eduarda Amorim first award the only player that manage to won this award two times was Hungary player Bojana Radulovic. She won this awards in 2000 and then again in 2003.
IHF Best Handballs of the year award: Nikola Karabatic and Eduarda Amorim best players in the world
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