Austrian national women's handball team
The Austrian women's handball national team represents Austria in international tournaments in women's handball .
The majority of the Austrian team plays for the Austrian top club Hypo Niederösterreich or for foreign clubs. The team is trained by Herbert Müller .
In international tournaments they were able to take 3rd place each at the World Championships and the European Championships .
Successes at championships
World Championship (hall)
- World Cup 1999 : 3rd place
World Championship (field)
- WM 1949 : 2nd place
- World Cup 1956 : 4th place
- World Cup 1960 : 2nd place
Olympic Games (hall)
- Olympia 1992 : 5th place
European Championship
Current squad
- Berisha Altina ( Tecton WAT Atzgersdorf ),
- Petra Blazek (MTK Budapest),
- Marina Budecevic ( Hypo Lower Austria ),
- Mirela Dedic (Hypo Lower Austria),
- Katrin Engel ( Thuringian HC ),
- Verena Flöck ( DJK / MJC Trier ),
- Sonja Frey (Thuringian HC),
- Martina Goricanec (Hypo Lower Austria),
- Romana Grausenburger ( HSG Bensheim / Auerbach ),
- Agnete Grigaite (McDonalds Wr. Neustadt)
- Melanie Herrmann ( Frisch Auf Göppingen ),
- Josefine Huber ( HSG Blomberg-Lippe ),
- Stefanie Kaiser (Hypo Lower Austria),
- Alvera Lamprecht ( Union Korneuburg ),
- Kristina Logvin ( Bayer 04 Leverkusen ),
- Laura Bauer ( HSG Blomberg-Lippe ),
- Viktoria Mauler (Hypo Lower Austria),
- Isabel Plach ( UHC Eggenburg ),
- Franziska Rath (Union Korneuburg),
- Beate Scheffknecht ( Fresh on Göppingen ),
- Johanna Schindler (Union Korneuburg),
- Carina Stockhammer (McDonalds Wr. Neustadt),
- Jennifer Thurner (Hypo Lower Austria),
- Claudia Wess (Hypo Lower Austria),
Well-known former national players
- Ausra Fridrikas
- Jasna Kolar-Merdan
- Stanka Bozovic
- Iris Morhammer
- Laura Fritz
- Natascha Rusnachenko
- Monika Königshofer
- Tatjana Logwin
- Stephanie Subke