Martin Straňovský

Martin Straňovský

Martin Straňovský on March 25, 2014
Player information
birthday	September 12, 1985
place of birth	Nové Zámky , Czechoslovakia
citizenship	Slovak
height	1.87 m
Playing position	Left winger
	Back center
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	HC Erlangen
Jersey number	24
Clubs in the youth
from ... to	society
0000-2001	TJ Štart Nové Zámky
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
2001-2005	TJ Štart Nové Zámky
2005–2012	Ademar León
2012-2014	FC Barcelona
2014-2018	HC Erlangen
2018–	HT Tatran Prešov
National team
	Games (goals)
Slovakia	96 (343)
As of September 19, 2014

Martin Straňovský (born September 12, 1985 in Nové Zámky , Czechoslovakia ) is a Slovak handball player who plays for the German Bundesliga club HC Erlangen and plays for the Slovak men's national handball team.

Career

Martin Straňovský began playing handball in his hometown, where he also made his debut in the first team. He quickly rose to the youth national team of his country and attracted attention at youth tournaments until he was signed by the Spanish top club Ademar León in 2005 . With the club from León he reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2007 , but failed at HSV Hamburg . In the summer of 2012, the 1.87-meter-tall left winger moved to FC Barcelona , with whom he won the championship in 2013 and 2014 and the Super Globe , the Supercopa Asobal , the Copa ASOBAL and the Copa del Rey de Balonmano in 2013/14 . In the EHF Champions League 2012/13 he was again defeated by HSV Hamburg in the final. In the EHF Champions League 2013/14 he reached the Final Four again . After the commitment of Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson , he left the club in the summer of 2014 to get more playing time again. On July 15, 2014, the German Bundesliga promoted HC Erlangen announced their commitment. At HC Straňovský plays as a playmaker in the back center position. In the summer of 2018 he switched to the Slovak club HT Tatran Prešov .

For the Slovak men's national handball team , he was in the squad for the 2011 World Cup and the 2012 European Championship ; by December 2011 he played 96 international matches in which he threw 343 goals.

Straňovský was voted Slovak handball player of the year in 2006.

Web links

Commons : Martin Straňovský  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Martin Straňovský on the HC Erlangen website
• Martin Straňovský in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stranovsky signs with Barcelona
2. ↑ www.handball-planet.com FC Barcelona release Martin Stranovsky by mutual agreement! (English) July 3, 2014, accessed July 3, 2014
3. ↑ handball-world.com: Newcomers Erlangen with newcomers from Barcelona on July 15, 2014, accessed on January 9, 2016
4. ↑ handball-world.news: Erlanger Stranovsky returns to Slovakia on March 7, 2018, accessed on March 7, 2018
5. ↑ eurohandball.com: Preliminary squad EM 2012 (PDF, 633 kB)