Anton Prakapenja

Anton Prakapenja

Player information
birthday	September 26, 1988
place of birth	Homel , Soviet Union
citizenship	Belarusian
height	1.96 m
Playing position	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	HSG Nordhorn-Lingen
Jersey number	24
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2009	Brest GK Meshkov
2009-2010	HC Dinamo Minsk
2010-2013	Brest GK Meshkov
2013-2014	SPR Chrobry Głogów
2014-2018	Handball Tyrol
2018-2019	HSC 2000 Coburg
2019–	HSG Nordhorn-Lingen
National team
	Games (goals)
Belarus	32 (63)
As of August 6, 2019

Anton Prakapenja ( Belarusian Антон Пракапеня , English Anton Prakapenia ; born September 26, 1988 in Homel , Belarusian SSR , USSR ) is a Belarusian handball player .

Career

Anton Prakapenja played for Brest GK Meschkow in the EHF Champions League for the first time internationally in the 2007/08 season . Until the 2012/13 season he remained loyal to the regional capitals with one break in the 2009/10 season and won the Belarusian championship in 2008 and the cup in 2009 and 2011. In 2010 he even won the double with HC Dinamo Minsk . During this time he took part three times ( 2007/08 , 2008/09 and 2009/10 ) in the Champions League, four times ( 2008/09 , 2009/10 , 2010/11 and 2012/13 ) in the EHF Cup and once ( 2011 / 12 ) took part in the EHF European Cup Winners' Cup. In the regular season of the 2015/16 season , Prakapenja scored 122 goals and thus became the top scorer ex aequo with Tobias Schopf .

In 2013, the 1.96 meter tall back player moved to Poland to SPR Chrobry Głogów. After only one year he moved on to Handball Tirol in the Handball League Austria . After the 2017/18 season he joined the German second division club HSC 2000 Coburg . For the 2019/20 season he moved to the newly promoted HSG Nordhorn-Lingen .

So far, Prakapenja has played 32 international matches for Belarus , scoring 63 goals. He was in the preliminary squad for the 2014 European Championship in Denmark.

HLA balance

season	society	Division	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2014/15	Handball Tyrol	HLA	122	11/14	111
2015/16	Handball Tyrol	HLA	176	7/11	169
2016/17	Handball Tyrol	HLA	120	2/3	118
2014-2017	total	HLA	418	20/28 (71%)	398

Web links

• Anton Prakapenia in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Player profile on handball-tirol.at accessed on October 31, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias Waidhofer: Schwaz's going to be tough against Hard. tt.com, September 2, 2014, accessed March 20, 2020 . 
2. ↑ handball-world.news: Who is coming - and who is going? The exchange exchange of the 2nd Bundesliga , accessed on August 21, 2018
3. ↑ www.handball-world.news Newcomer HSG Nordhorn-Lingen gets international experience from Coburg on June 14, 2019, accessed on June 14, 2019
4. ↑ ihf.info: Belarus , accessed on January 4, 2017