Boyana Radulovics

Boyana Radulovics

Bojana Radulovics in the Olympic Museum (2004)
Player information
birthday	March 23, 1973
place of birth	Subotica , SFR Yugoslavia
citizenship	Hungarian
height	1.79 m
Playing position	Right back area
Throwing hand	right
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
1989-1991	Zombor
1991-1993	ŽRK Radnički Belgrade
1993-1994	Mar Valencia
1994-1995	Caola SE
1995-2006	Dunaferr NK
2006-2007	Győri Audi ETO KC
2009-2011	Dunaújvárosi KKA
National team
Debut on	July 25, 2000
against	France
	Games (goals)
Yugoslavia Hungary	70 69 (463)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to	society
2011–	Dunaújvárosi KKA
As of September 10, 2014

Bojana Radulovics ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бојана Радуловић ; born March 23, 1973 in Subotica , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Hungarian handball player . She was recognized twice by the International Handball Federation as a world handball player in 2000 and 2003. With the Hungarian women's national handball team , she won the silver medal at the 2000 Olympic Games and the bronze medal at the 2003 Women's Handball World Championship . At the European level, she was also able to win the bronze medal in the match for third place in the domestic European women's handball championship in 2004 in the 29:25 win against Russia .

Career

societies

Radulovics started her career as a teenager in her native city. Her professional career began at ŽRK Radnički Belgrade , with whom she won the EHF European Women's Cup in 1990/91 . She later moved to Spanish first division club Mar Valencia . She then moved to the Hungarian league to Caola SE and was the top scorer in the first Hungarian league in the 1994/95 season .

After only one season at Caola SE, she was signed by Dunaferr NK . She became a key player in her new club due to her creative play, her team play and her scoring risk. She achieved her first major success in 1998 when Dunaferr NK won the EHF Women's Cup 1997/98 , the Hungarian Championship and the Hungarian Cup. Radulovics was the third top scorer in the league with 170 goals.

By winning the Hungarian championship Danuferr NK was able to qualify for the EHF Champions League women 1998/99 and won the final against Krim Ljubljana . Radulovics later won the EHF Champions Trophy in 1998/99 . During her time at Dunaferr, she won five championships and five cups. In 2001 she was made an honorary citizen of the city of Dunaújváros for her sporting achievements for the club .

In March 2006, Radulovics declared that he wanted to stop playing handball, but received an offer from Győri Audi ETO KC and signed a one-year contract with him. On October 8, 2006, she injured her shoulder while playing against her then club Dunaferr. After months of healing she was able to play again and won her sixth Hungarian club cup with Győri Audi ETO KC. After the season she did not renew her contract and ended her handball career for the time being.

In September 2009 the Hungarian media reported for the first time about Radulovic's comeback at her former club Dunaferr NK , which had renamed itself to Dunaújvárosi Kohász Kézilabda Akadémia . The reason for their possible comeback was the loss of many players for economic reasons. This rumor came true and she played her first game after a two-year break on September 18, 2009 against Hunnia KSK , scoring 5 goals. In the 2010/11 season, at the age of 38, she was 12th in the Hungarian league's top scorer list.

The city council of Dunaújváros appointed Radulovics on October 28, 2010 as the person responsible for the female area of ​​the newly founded handball academy Dunaújvárosi Kohász Kézilabda Akadémia, which opened in September 2011 and works in cooperation with the local school.

On August 10, 2011, on the advice of her doctor, she ended her professional handball career in order to concentrate fully on her work in the handball academy.

International

Radulovics played 70 times for Yugoslavia before she decided in 1999, after playing in Hungary for many years, to take on Hungarian citizenship and to represent Hungary on the international stage. She made her debut for the Hungarians on July 25, 2000 against France and played in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney that same year . After she was able to save her team in the quarter-finals against Austria with a goal in extra time, which could be won with 28 to 27 goals, they reached the final against Denmark via Norway . She and her team could not decide this for themselves, but she was elected to the All-Star Team of the Olympic Games and won the silver medal with the national team. For her achievements in the same year, she was named Hungary's handball player of the year and world handball player by the IHF .

Because of a knee injury, Radulovics missed the 2000 European women's handball championship , in which Hungary was European champion. After her recovery, she returned to prepare for the 2001 women's handball world championship , but was injured again in the group game against Spain . She could not take part in the rest of the tournament and Hungary was only sixth.

Because of her injury and maternity leave, Radulovics did not play for the national team until 2003. For the women's handball world championship in 2003 , she returned to the team, and reached the final against France with this. This was lost with 32 to 29 goals after France was able to equalize the 28:27 lead in the 60th minute with a 7-meter throw and thus saved themselves in extra time. Radulovics scored 13 goals in the final, was elected top scorer of the tournament with 97 goals and was later elected world handball player for the second time in 2003.

At the 2004 Olympic Games she was the top scorer with 54 goals and reached 5th place with the national team after she won the placement game against Spain with 38 to 29 goals, 10 of which were scored by her own.

On October 18, 2004, she received the SportStars Award at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne . Among the 54 invited athletes were world and Olympic champions such as Jelena Gadschijewna Issinbajewa , tennis star Roger Federer and Justine Henin , basketball player Pau Gasol and pentathlete Zsuzsanna Vörös .

Radulovic's last major tournament was the 2004 European Women's Handball Championship in front of a home crowd. Unfortunately, she couldn't win the gold medal as she had hoped, because she had to admit defeat in the semifinals against eventual European champions Norway 29 to 44. On December 19, 2004, in the placement game against Russia , Radulovics wore the jersey of the Hungarian national team for the last time in their career. She scored 12 goals, won the bronze medal with Hungary and was the top scorer with 72 goals.

"I don't think that I still have enough strength in addition to my family and club duties. It's time for the younger generation." - said the 31-year-old Radulovics in an interview with tears right after a game.

In 2010 Radulovics was invited to the Sportface Handball Gala, where she took part in a show game between the Hungarian Olympic team and the Danish Olympic team from 2000. The replay of the final of the Olympic Games, Sydney 2000 - Reloaded, ended in a draw. Before the game started, she was named Hungary's handball player of the decade in front of thousands of fans in the Főnix Hall .

In September 2011, Radulovic's handprint and signature were immortalized on the wall of the Hungarian sports stars.

successes

• Nemzeti Bajnokság I :
  • Winner : 1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004

• Magyar Kupa :
  • Winner : 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007

• EHF Champions League
  • Winner : 1999

• European Cup Winners' Cup :
  • Winner : 1991

• EHF Cup :
  • Winner : 1998
  • Finalist : 2003

• EHF Champions Trophy :
  • Winner : 1999

• Olympic Games :
  • Silver medal : 2000
  • 5th place : 2004

• Handball World Championship :
  • Silver : 2003
  • 6th place : 2001

• European Handball Championship :
  • Bronze : 2004
  • 5th place : 2002

Awards

• Top scorer in the Hungarian first division : 1995
• Olympic Games All-Star Team: 2000
• Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary : 2000
• Hungary's handball player of the year: 2000
• World handball player : 2000, 2003
• Honorary citizen of the city of Dunaújváros : 2001
• Top scorer of the Handball World Cup: 2003
• Handball World Championship All-Star Team: 2003
• Top scorer of the European Handball Championship: 2004
• Olympic Games Top Scorer: 2004
• SportStars Award: 2004
• Hungary's handball player of the decade: 2010

Web links

Commons : Bojana Radulovics  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• European cup statistics from Bojana Radulovics

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Bojana Radulovic's Biography and Olympic Results. Sports-reference.com, accessed May 31, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Previous Awards. All the previous World Handball Players. International Handball Federation , accessed May 31, 2011 . 
4. ↑ A női kézilabda sztárjátékosai - Bojana Radulovics. (No longer available online.) Worldhandball.com, archived from the original on May 23, 2012 ; Retrieved May 31, 2011 (Hungarian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ Radulovic's Boyana. Dunaújváros.hu, accessed May 31, 2011 (Hungarian). 
6. ↑ Radulovics Győrbe szerződött. Origo.hu, May 25, 2006, accessed May 31, 2011 (Hungarian). 
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8. ↑ Raduloviccsal erősít az újvárosi nőikézilabda-csapat. Origo.hu, September 8, 2009, accessed May 31, 2011 (Hungarian). 
9. ↑ Radulovics: Nagyon élveztem a játékot! Nemzeti Sport Online, September 20, 2009, accessed May 31, 2011 (Hungarian). 
10. ↑ Score list. (No longer available online.) Worldhandball.com, formerly the original ; Retrieved May 31, 2011 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
11. ↑ Kézilabda Akadémia: rajt jövőre! Dunaújváros Online, October 29, 2010, accessed May 31, 2011 (Hungarian). 
12. ↑ Radulovics nem kockáztatja a lebénulást, visszavonul. Origo.hu, August 10, 2011, accessed August 10, 2011 (Hungarian). 
13. ↑ És feltámadtak ... ( Memento from January 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
14. ↑ A legjobbkor álltunk bosszút. (No longer available online.) Origo.hu, September 29, 2000, archived from the original on January 25, 2012 ; Retrieved September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Extremely jutott a Mocsai-csapat. (No longer available online.) Origo.hu, October 1, 2000, archived from the original on January 25, 2012 ; Retrieved September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ Radulovics Bojana az év kézilabdázója. Origo.hu, July 18, 2001, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). 
17. ↑ Nehéz küzdelem a spanyolfal ellen. Origo.hu, December 6, 2001, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). 
18. ↑ HATODIK helyen végeztek a magyarok a nőikézilabda-vébén. Origo.hu, December 16, 2001, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). 
19. ↑ Győztes csatát bukott, ezüstérmes a kézicsapat. Origo.hu, December 14, 2003, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). 
20. ↑ Radulovics lett a világ legjobbja. Origo.hu, June 1, 2004, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). 
21. ↑ Ötödik lett a magyar nőikézi-válogatott. Origo.hu, August 29, 2004, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). 
22. ↑ Vöröst és Radulovicsot kitüntették Lausanne-ban. Origo.hu, October 18, 2004, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). 
23. ↑ Görbiczékre az Eb-favorit vár az elődöntőben. Origo.hu, December 17, 2004, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). 
24. ↑ Magyar KO vereség a kézi Eb elődöntőjében. Origo.hu, December 18, 2004, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). 
25. ↑ Bronzzal vigasztalódott nőikézi-csapatunk. Origo.hu, December 19, 2004, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian). 
26. ↑ Megérdemelt magyar bronz a nőikézi-Eb-n. Origo.hu, December 22, 2004, accessed May 31, 2011 (Hungarian). 
27. ↑ Sportface Kézilabda Gála ( Memento from October 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
28. ↑ Sportcsillagok Fala: Radulovics Bojana és Veres Richárd is megörökítette kézlenyomatát. Nemzetis Sport Online, September 19, 2011, accessed September 12, 2014 (Hungarian).