Jaume Fort
Jaume Fort |
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Player information | |
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Full name | Jaume Fort Mauri Lorenzo |
birthday | July 25, 1966 |
place of birth | Cardedeu , Spain |
citizenship | Spanish |
height | 1.82 m |
Playing position | goalkeeper |
Throwing hand | right |
Clubs in the youth | |
from ... to | society |
1972-1981 | BM Cardedeu |
1981-1986 | BM Granollers |
Clubs as active | |
from ... to | society |
1986-1990 | BM Granollers |
1990-1994 | BM Alzira Avidesa |
1994-1999 | CB Cantabria Santander |
1999-2001 | TBV Lemgo |
2001-2004 | Fresh on Göppingen |
3 / 2005-2005 | BM Ciudad Real |
National team | |
Games (goals) | |
Spain | 177 (0) |
As of February 14, 2014 |
Jaume Fort Mauri Lorenzo (born July 25, 1966 in Cardedeu , Spain ) is a former Spanish handball goalkeeper . He is married and has one child.
Athletic career
society
Jaume Fort started playing handball in his hometown at BM Cardedeu when he was six. When he was 15 he joined the youth department of BM Granollers . In 1986 the 1.82 m tall goalkeeper made his debut in the ASOBAL league and played for Granollers for four years. In 1990 he joined the BM Alzira Avidesa club, which had only been founded a year earlier , with which he won the Copa del Rey de Balonmano in 1992 and the EHF Cup in 1993/94 . He then moved to the reigning EHF Champions League winner CB Cantabria Santander . In its five seasons, Fort again won the King's Cup, twice the Copa ASOBAL , the Supercopa Asobal and the European Cup Winners' Cup . In 1999 he joined the German Bundesliga club TBV Lemgo , with whom he won the 1999 Supercup. After two years he moved to the newly promoted Frisch Auf Göppingen , with whom he ended his career in 2004.
In March 2005 he was reactivated by BM Ciudad Real for the goalkeeper Arpad Šterbik, who had failed due to a torn cruciate ligament, until the end of the season. With Ciudad Real, he lost to FC Barcelona in the finals of the EHF Champions League 2004/05 with one goal.
On August 11, 2007 Jaume Fort was awarded together with Dejan Perić as the best goalkeeper in the history of the Schlecker Cup .
National team
With the Spanish national team , the 177-time goalkeeper took part in the Olympic Games in 1988 , 1992 and 1996 and won the bronze medal on his third participation. In the same year he became vice European champion , in 1998 he repeated this success. At the European Championship in 2000 he won bronze again.
Professional career
Jaume Fort has a degree in English philology and speaks fluent French and German in addition to Spanish and English. After he was already active for the "Association of Spanish Handball Players" (ABM), he was also elected President of the "Association of European Handball Players" (EHPU). In February 2007 he was elected to the "Athletes Commission" of the IHF . Since June 2007 he was on the City Council of Cardedeu u. a. responsible for sports. In February 2012, he stepped down to join the Granollers Organizing Committee for the 2013 Men's Handball World Championship .
successes
- Copa del Rey de Balonmano 1991/1992 and 1994/95
- Copa ASOBAL 1996/97 and 1997/98
- Supercopa Asobal 1994/95
- German Supercup 1999
- German runner-up 1999/2000
- European Cup Winners' Cup 1998/99
- EHF Cup 1993/94
- Finalist EHF Champions League 2004/05
- Finalist EHF European Cup Winners' Cup 1995/96
- Silver at the European Championships in 1996 and 1998
- Bronze at the 1996 Olympic Games
- Bronze at the European Championships in 2000
- Bundesliga All-Star 2000 , 2002 and 2003
Web links
- Jaume Fort in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Jaume Fort in the database of the European Cup
- Interview with Jaume Fort (part 1) from March 18, 2010 (English)
- Interview with Jaume Fort (part 2) from March 28, 2010 (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ rfebm.com: Estadísticas de jugadores / as de la selección , accessed on April 17, 2018
- ↑ www.schwaebische.de Veszprém wants the trophy from August 7, 2007 in the eleventh attempt
- ↑ www.marca.com Fort se va a Corea a adiestrar porteros of October 10, 2013 (Spanish)
- ↑ www.handball-world.com IHF Athletes Commission from February 17, 2007
- ↑ www.naciodigital.cat Jaume Fort abandona el govern de Cardedeu per motius laborals of February 15, 2012 (Catalan)
- ↑ www.swp.de "Terrible City" with tradition from January 14, 2013
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Away, Jaume |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fort Mauri Lorenzo, Jaume (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish handball player |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1966 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cardedeu , Spain |