Rebeka Benzsay

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Rebeka Benzsay
Beach handball Euro 2019 Final Women DEN-HUN 0063 (cropped) .jpg

Before the final of the Beach Handball European Championships 2019

Player information
Full name Rebeka Benzsay
birthday February 24, 2000
place of birth Budapest
citizenship HungaryHungary Hungary
height 1.78 m
Playing position Circular rotor
Throwing hand right
Club information
society Szentendrei NKE
Jersey number 11
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
0000- Szentendrei NKE
Clubs as active
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- Szentendrei NKE
National team
  Games (goals)
Hungary beach handball

As of March 27, 2020

Rebeka Benzsay (born February 24, 2000 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian handball player . She is the Hungarian national player in the beach handball discipline .

Rebeka Benzsay studies biology at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest and lives in Szentendre , one of the strongholds of European beach handball. She has been playing both indoors and on clay for Szentendrei NKE since childhood . In 2014 she started playing beach handball in earnest. In 2015 she and her teammate Csenge Braun were invited to a course for the Hungarian U19 national team, but not yet appointed.

Beach handball

Juniors

Benzsay was nominated for the U19 national beach handball team of Hungary at the age of 15 and took part in the U19 European Junior Championships 2015 in Lloret de Mar , where the Hungarian team won the gold medal. The following year, she was fifth with Hungary at the Beach Handball Junior European Championships 2016 in Nazaré . This was followed by the Beach Handball Junior European Championships in 2017 on Lake Jarun near Zagreb . The team again played a good tournament and reached the game for third place, where Germany lost in the shootout. At the age of only 17, she was then appointed, like Csenge Braun, for the Beach Handball European Championships 2017 in the same position immediately afterwards and was used in all ten games. After a weak preliminary round, in which of four games only the one against Germany could be won in the shootout, whereby Benzsay was able to achieve her most points with ten points, the team increased only slightly in the main round. Here, too, she was only able to win out of four games against Italy, bottom of the table . In the placement games, Hungary first won in the shootout against Ukraine but then lost in the final game for ninth place against Croatia . In total, she scored 35 points over the course of the tournament. Hungary actually missed the qualification for the Beach Handball Junior World Championships 2017 in Flic-en-Flac on Mauritius , but moved up for the Norwegians who did not compete. With only one defeat in the entire tournament, the Hungarian team won the title after a convincing tournament performance against the Netherlands. Benzsay also won the title with Hungary at the Beach Handball Junior European Championships 2018 in Montenegro .

Benzsay (in green) scores 6: 4 in the first round against Taiwan in the last preliminary round game at the Youth Olympic Games
Benzsay (green) and Amber van der Meij (Netherlands, orange) in the bronze medal match at the Youth Olympic Games

A year later Benzsay was part of Hungary's squad for the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires , where beach handball was part of the Olympic Games program for the first time. Already in the first game against American Samoa a clear victory was achieved, to which Benzsay contributed the most points of her team with eleven. Against the second big outsider of the tournament, Mauritius , a clear victory succeeded in the next game, after Braun Benzsay scored the second most points with eight. In the third game Russia could be defeated after a shootout. With 16 points each, Benzsay and Dorottya Gajdos were the best scorers in Hungary. She was also the best thrower with 13 points in the 2-0 victory against the big competitors for victory in the preliminary round, Croatia. The last game of the preliminary round against Chinese Taipei was won 2-0, with 19 points Benzsay was by far the best scorer of the game. In the first half she scored the winning goal 17 seconds before the end in a quick return move. The winning streak continued in the main round and Paraguay was beaten 2-0. The next game was against the hosts from Argentina and led to the shootout, in which the Hungarians had to admit defeat for the first time, although the Hungarians had a significantly better rate with 38:31 points in the addition of the two rounds. Against the Netherlands in the final main round game, Hungary was able to prevail in the shootout and moved into the semi-finals behind the Netherlands and ahead of Argentina and Croatia. Here Hungary lost to the hosts in the shootout, although the Hungarians even scored one point more in the addition of the halves. In the game for third place you met again on the selection of the Netherlands, which could be beaten 2-0. After Benzsay had not scored the only game in the tournament in the semifinals, she contributed two points to victory in the final. With a total of 87 points, she was the most successful scorer of her team in the tournament after Braun with 95 points and ahead of Sára Léránt (86). The bronze medal was the first medal awarded in beach handball in the Olympic context.

Benzsay (center) sprints back shortly before the end after equalizing, but can no longer prevent the successful counterattack by the Danes

Women

The successes continued at Beachhandball Euro 2019 in Stare Jabłonki . It belonged again as well as again to Csenge Braun and also Gabriella Landi , Gréta Hadfi and Réka Király as well as the then co-trainer Ágnes Győri from the Olympic team to the Hungarian squad . All four games of the preliminary round were won against Poland , Portugal , France and Cyprus . Against Portugal Benzsay was the second best Hungarian scorer with ten points. The main round went less well, losing to Croatia and then the Netherlands before winning the third and final game against Norway . As fourth in the group, the Hungarians were the last to reach the quarter-finals. The game against Spain went into the shootout, but was won in the end. In the semi-final game they met the Netherlands once again , this time they were clearly beaten 2-0. Hungary met Denmark in the final . After the first round went clearly to the Northern Europeans, the second round was dramatic in the end. Denmark led two points with their last Hungarian attack just seconds to go when Benzsay equalized with their only goal of the game. When almost all spectators now assumed that extra time would be needed, Ann Cecilie Møller scored the winning goal in a last quick Danish attack with the final second. It was also the qualification for the World Beach Games 2019 in ar-Rayyan , Qatar , for which Benzsay was not appointed.

successes

Youth Olympic Games

Beach handball European championships

Beach handball junior world championships

Beach handball junior European championships

Web links

Commons : Rebeka Benzsay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

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  2. ↑ Benzsay Rebeka: a legvadabb álmaimban sem gondoltam volna, hogy arannyal jövünk haza. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Balassy László: Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság - BENZSAY REBEKA. November 14, 2018, accessed March 27, 2020 (Hungarian).
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  5. ↑ admin: Netherlands and Spain defended the European crown! | BH Euro 2017 YAC. Retrieved March 26, 2020 (American English).
  6. ↑ Europsko prvenstvo u rukometu na pijesku - rezultati. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Dunaújvárosi lány a világ tetején. July 18, 2017, accessed April 24, 2020 (Hungarian).
  8. ↑ Benzsay Rebeka: a legvadabb álmaimban sem gondoltam volna, hogy arannyal jövünk haza. Retrieved March 27, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Balassy László: Magyar Olimpiai Bizottság - BENZSAY REBEKA. November 14, 2018, accessed March 27, 2020 (Hungarian).
  10. ↑ Paraguay take last main round spot | IHF. Retrieved March 26, 2020 (English).
  11. ^ A great success on the sand - Olympic News. February 6, 2019, accessed March 26, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Rousing success on the sand - Olympic News. February 6, 2019, accessed March 27, 2020 .
  13. ↑ European Handball Federation - 2019 Women's ECh Beach Handball / Match Details. Retrieved March 26, 2020 (English).
  14. ↑ European Handball Federation - 2019 Women's ECh Beach Handball / Match Details. Retrieved March 26, 2020 (English).
  15. ↑ European Handball Federation - 2019 Women's ECh Beach Handball / Match Details. Retrieved March 26, 2020 (English).
  16. ↑ European Handball Federation - 2019 Women's ECh Beach Handball / Match Details. Retrieved March 26, 2020 (English).
  17. ↑ European Handball Federation - 2019 Women's ECh Beach Handball / Match Details. Retrieved March 26, 2020 (English).
  18. ↑ European Handball Federation - 2019 Women's ECh Beach Handball / Match Details. Retrieved March 26, 2020 (English).
  19. ↑ News | IHF. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  20. ↑ Team Details Page | IHF. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Benzsay, Rebeka
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rebeka, Benzsay (Hungarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian beach handball player
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 2000
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest