Dainis Krištopāns

Dainis Krištopāns

Player information
birthday	September 27, 1990
place of birth	Ludza , Latvian SSR
citizenship	Latvian
height	2.15 m
Playing position	Back right
Throwing hand	Left
Club information
society	Paris Saint-Germain
Jersey number	10
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2009	SK Latgols
2009-2015	HT Tatran Prešov
2015-2015	Al-Rayan SC
2015-2017	Brest GK Meshkov
2017-2020	RK Vardar Skopje
2020-2020	Foxes Berlin
2020–	Paris Saint-Germain
National team
Debut on	2013
	Games (goals)
Latvia	74 (325)

Dainis Krištopāns (born September 27, 1990 in Ludza , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Latvian handball player who is mostly used on the right back area.

The 2.15 m tall and 135 kg heavy left-hander began his career at SK Latgols Ludza . From 2009 he played for the Slovak top club HT Tatran Prešov , with whom he won the championship and cup in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. In the SEHA league 2011/12 and 2013/14 he reached the final four and was the third top scorer in the league in 2013/14 with 93 goals in 17 games. Internationally, Krištopāns played in the group phase of the EHF Champions League 2010/11 , in the quarterfinals of the EHF Cup 2011/12 and the group phase of the EHF European Cup 2012/13 and 2013/14 . From summer 2015 he was under contract with the Belarusian first division club Brest GK Meschkow . With Brest GK Meschkow he won both the Belarusian championship and the Belarusian cup in 2016. In the summer of 2017 he joined the Macedonian first division club RK Vardar Skopje . With Vardar he won the North Macedonian Championship in 2018 and 2019, the North Macedonian Cup in 2018, and in 2019 he won the SEHA League and the EHF Champions League . From February 2020, Krištopāns was under contract with the Bundesliga club Füchse Berlin until the end of the season. He has been under contract with the French club Paris Saint-Germain since summer 2020 .

Dainis Krištopāns is part of the Latvian national team . In qualifying for the 2015 men's handball world championship , he was the top Latvian goalscorer with 33 goals in six games.

Web links

• Dainis Krištopāns on the HT Tatran Prešov website
• Dainis Krištopāns in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Dainis Krištopāns on the website of the Latvian Handball Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ livecache.sportresult.com: Latvia , accessed January 14, 2020
2. ↑ rukometstat.com Dainis Kristopans 2013/14 accessed on March 12, 2014
3. ↑ handball-world.com: Brest reinforced the back area twice accessed on April 9, 2015
4. ↑ handball-world.com: Skopje signs Latvian national players accessed on October 27, 2016
5. ↑ https://twitter.com/FuechseBerlin/status/1227561004265025536?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
6. ↑ en.psg.fr: Dainis Kristopans signs with Paris accessed on August 26, 2019
7. ↑ www.eurohandball.com Top Scorers 2015 Men's World Championship accessed on March 12, 2014