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Blaženko Lacković

Blaženko Lacković
Personal information
Full name Blaženko Lacković
Born (1980-12-25) 25 December 1980 (age 43)
Novi Marof, SR Croatia, Yugoslavia
Nationality Croatian
Height 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Playing position Left back
Senior clubs
Years Team
1997–2001
RK Varteks Di Caprio
2001–2004
Badel 1862 Zagreb
2004–2008
SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2008–2014
HSV Hamburg
2014–2016
RK Vardar
2016–2017
THW Kiel
2017–2020
HSV Hamburg
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2001–2013
Croatia 195 (571)
Teams managed
2020–
HSV Hamburg (Assistant)
Medal record
Men's handball
Representing  Croatia
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team Competition
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Team Competition
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2003 Portugal Team Competition
Silver medal – second place 2005 Tunisia Team Competition
Silver medal – second place 2009 Croatia Team Competition
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Spain Team Competition
European Championship
Silver medal – second place 2008 Norway Team Competition
Silver medal – second place 2010 Austria Team Competition
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Serbia Team Competition
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 2001 Tunis Team Competition

Blaženko Lacković (born 25 December 1980) is a retired Croatian handball player.

He is World champion from 2003,[1] and Olympic champion from 2004 with the Croatia national team.[2][3] He received silver medals at the 2005 and 2009 World championships, silver medals at the 2008 and 2010 European championships and bronze medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the 2012 European Championship and the 2013 World Championship.

Clubs

Lacković has played for the Croatian clubs RK Varteks di Caprio, Metković and RK Zagreb. He was a member of German club SG Flensburg-Handewitt, which reached the EHF Champions League final in 2007. He eventually won the title with HSV Hamburg during the 2012–13 season. After six years in Hamburg Lacković signed for Macedonian side RK Vardar Skopje in the summer of 2014.On February 3, 2016 Lackovic signed for German club THW Kiel. In Kiel he plays with his teammates in national team Domagoj Duvnjak and Ilija Brozovic.

Honours

Zagreb
Flensburg
HSV
Vardar
Kiel
Individual

Orders

References

  1. ^ "Croatia" Archived 2008-02-05 at the Wayback MachineEuropean Handball Federation (2008) (Retrieved on February 1, 2008)
  2. ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 1, 2008)
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Blaženko Lacković". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016.
  4. ^ "Blaženko Lacković biography". hoo.hr (in Croatian).