Grit Jurack
![]() Grit Jurack in the jersey of Viborg HK |
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Player information | |
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birthday | October 22, 1977 |
place of birth | Leipzig , GDR |
citizenship |
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height | 1.86 m |
Playing position | Back right |
Throwing hand | Left |
Club information | |
society | Career ended |
Clubs as active | |
from ... to | society |
1989-1993 |
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1993-2004 |
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2001-2003 |
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2004–2012 |
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National team | |
Debut on | January 23, 1996 |
against |
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Games (goals) | |
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306 (1581) |
Clubs as coaches | |
from ... to | society |
2015– |
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As of March 19, 2015 |
Grit Jurack (born October 22, 1977 in Leipzig ) is a former German handball player and record national player of the German handball association. Since March 2015 she has been working as a team manager and co-trainer for the German national women's handball team.
Career
She began her handball career at BSV Schönau Leipzig , where the left-hander played from 1989 to 1993. She played at HC Leipzig until 2001 and won the German championship in 1998 and 1999. From 2001 to 2003 she was loaned to the Danish club Ikast-Bording Elite Håndbold , with whom she won the EHF Cup and the Danish Cup in 2002. She then returned to Leipzig for one season.
In 2004 she finally switched to the Danish top club Viborg HK , where she became the first German player to win the championship title in the Danish Super League and the Champions League in 2006. In the summer of 2012, she had to end her career due to severe cartilage damage in her shoulder.
National team
She made her international debut in the German national team on January 23, 1996 against the USA. She is the record goal scorer and record national player in the DHB selection and the only player to date to have been the top scorer twice at a world championship (1999 and 2007). At the World Handball Championship for Women 2009 in China they could not attend because of her pregnancy. In the international match against Hungary on September 21, 2010 as part of the World Cup (final score 19:22), she came back for the first time after her pregnancy and scored 5 goals. On April 24, 2011, she played her 300th international match at 27:23 against Norway; only three handball players ( Frank-Michael Wahl (344 games), Klaus-Dieter Petersen (340) and Christian Schwarzer (318)) had played that many international matches. In March 2012, she announced her resignation from the national team. On October 7, 2012, she played her farewell game against the Czech Republic.
Private
- Julia Jurack from Thuringian HC is not related to Grit Jurack.
- Grit Jurack gave birth to a son on February 4, 2010. Their second son was born on December 12, 2013.
Sporting successes
- Viborg HK
- Won the Champions League in 2006, 2009 and 2010
- Club European Champion 2006
- Danish champion 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010
- Danish cup winner 2006, 2007, 2008
- Ikast boarding
- EHF Cup winner 2002
- Danish cup winner 2002
- HC Leipzig
- German champion in 1998 and 1999
- German cup winner 1996 and 2000
- German national team
- 3rd place at the 1997 and 2007 World Championships
- 4th place at the European Championship 1996 and the European Championship 2006 and the European Championship 2008
- 5th place at the 2004 European Championships
- 6th place at the 1996 Olympic Games
- 6th place at the 2005 World Cup
- 7th place at the 1999 World Cup
- 9th place at the European Championship 2000
- 11th place at the Olympic Games in 2008
- 12th place at the 2003 World Cup
Awards
- Handball woman of the year 1999, 2000, 2001, 2007 and 2008
- Top scorer at the 1999 and 2007 World Cup
- Elected to the all-star team at the 2005 and 2007 World Cup
Web links
- Grit Jurack in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
- Grit Jurack in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait at Viborg HK ( Memento from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ dhb.de: National players , accessed on September 16, 2015
- ↑ www.handball-world.com: Record national player Grit Jurack: Comeback as team manager , accessed on March 6, 2015
- ↑ www.handball-world.com: New start with a successful duo: Jurack also co-trainer at DHB selection , accessed on March 19, 2015
- ↑ www.handball-world.com: Record handball player Jurack has to end her career
- ↑ List at bundesligainfo.de
- ↑ www.handball-world.com, December 3, 2009
- ↑ Grit Jurack: "It's nice to be back" ( Memento from September 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Four nations tournament in Völklingen: Germany in second place after 27:23 against Norway / votes for the game ( Memento from November 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ www.handball-planet.com, April 27, 2011
- ↑ www.handball-world.com, March 27, 2012
- ↑ Moving farewell game: Grit Jurack for the last time for Germany ( Memento from October 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jurack 17 hits are missing from a German goal record. In: Handelsblatt of June 10, 2006
- ↑ www.handball-world.com, February 7, 2010
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jurack, Grit |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German handball player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1977 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig , German Democratic Republic |