Jasna Kolar-Merdan

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Jasna Kolar-Merdan
Player information
birthday October 19, 1956
place of birth Mostar , SFR Yugoslavia
citizenship AustrianAustrian Austrian
height 1.76 m
Throwing hand right
Club information
society Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-1984 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia ŽRK Lokomotiva Mostar
1984– AustriaAustria Hypo Lower Austria
National team
  Games (goals)
Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia Austria
AustriaAustria 

163 (1206)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2014– AustriaAustria Union Korneuburg

As of April 25, 2016

Jasna Kolar-Merdan (born October 19, 1956 in Mostar , SFR Yugoslavia ) is a former Austrian handball player of Yugoslav origin. She took part in three Olympic Games and was elected world handball player in 1990.

Career

Jasnar Kolar-Merdan started with handball in her home country at ŽRK Lokomotiva Mostar. From 1984 she ran for the Austrian top club Hypo Niederösterreich , with whom she won the championship several times and the EHF Champions League eight times .

With the Yugoslav national team she won at the Olympic Games 1980 silver and 1984 gold. After she became an Austrian citizen in 1985 , she ran for the Austrian national team . She took part in the 1992 Olympics with Austria and is the ÖHB team's record goal scorer with 1,206 goals in 163 international matches .

Jasnar Kolar-Merdan has been running a café in Maria Enzersdorf with her husband since 1994 . In February 2014 she took over the coaching position of the Austrian first division club Union Korneuburg .

successes

  • Olympic Games 1984: gold medal
  • 1980 Olympic Games: silver medal
  • Champions League winners: 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Fritz Neumann: And in the Café Memory the clock is turned back . In: The Standard . December 9, 2012. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
  2. a b Jasna Kolar-Medan in the Hall of Fame of the Austrian Handball Federation . In: oehb.at . Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  3. Fritz Neumann: Kolar-Merdan: "It's embarrassing for Hypo" . In: The Standard . November 5, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2016.