Vytautas Žiūra

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Vytautas Žiūra
Vytautas Žiūra

Vytautas Žiūra (2014)

Player information
birthday 11th May 1979 (age 41)
place of birth Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR
citizenship AustrianAustrian Austrian
height 1.89 m
Playing position Back center
Throwing hand right
Club information
society Union juri leoben logo.png Union Leoben
Clubs as active
from ... to society
0000-2000 LithuaniaLithuania Granitas Kaunas
2000-2003 LithuaniaLithuania Lūšis-Akademikas Kaunas
2003-2009 AustriaAustria Handball club Fivers Margareten
2009-2010 DenmarkDenmark Viborg HK
2010-2020 AustriaAustria Handball club Fivers Margareten
2020– AustriaAustria Union Leoben
National team
  Games (goals)
AustriaAustria Austria 94 (200)
Clubs as coaches
from ... to society
2020– AustriaAustria Union Leoben

Status: August 14, 2020

Vytautas Žiūra (* 11. May 1979 in Vilnius ) is a from Lithuania originating handball player with Austrian citizenship.

Career

The 1.88 m tall and 93 kg heavy backcourt player was under contract with the Danish club Viborg HK in the 2009/10 season . Then Žiūra returned to the Austrian handball club Fivers Margareten , for which he was active before his station in Viborg. With the Handball Club Fivers Margareten he won in 2009 , 2012 , 2013 , 2015 , 2016 and 2017 the ÖHB Cup and 2011 , 2016 and 2018 the Austrian Championship . Furthermore, Žiūra played for the Lithuanian clubs Lūšis-Akademikas Kaunas and Granitas Kaunas, with whom he celebrated a total of two championships and three cup successes.

In Austria he has already been voted “Player of the Year” seven times (most recently in 2016/17). He has been a player-coach at Union Leoben since the 2020/21 season .

For the Austrian national team , he scored 200 goals in 94 international matches.

He is married to the Austrian handball player Gorica Aćimović (* 1985).

Sporting successes

  • 7 × HLA "Handball player of the year" (2004/05, 2007/08, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17)
  • 3 × Austrian champions 2010/11, 2015/16, 2017/18
  • 6 × Austrian Cup Winner 2008/09, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2014/15, 2015/16, 2016/17

HLA balance

season society Division Gates 7 meters Field gates
2008/09 Handball club Fivers Margareten HLA 20th 8/9 12
2010/11 Handball club Fivers Margareten HLA 28 5/7 23
2011/12 Handball club Fivers Margareten HLA 87 0/0 87
2012/13 Handball club Fivers Margareten HLA 103 6/12 97
2013/14 Handball club Fivers Margareten HLA 145 48/63 97
2014/15 Handball club Fivers Margareten HLA 167 79/95 88
2015/16 Handball club Fivers Margareten HLA 162 34/41 128
2016/17 Handball club Fivers Margareten HLA 183 68/83 115
2017/18 Handball club Fivers Margareten HLA 157 52/64 105
2018/19 Handball club Fivers Margareten HLA 92 38/46 54
2008-2019 total HLA 1144 338/420 (80%) 806

Web links

Commons : Vytautas Žiūra  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ handball-world.news: Vitas Ziura makes comeback for Austria , accessed on June 11, 2017
  2. ↑ oehb.sportlive.at: Arenhart and Ziura handball player of the year! ( Memento of February 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 21, 2013
  3. ↑ fivers.at: Vytas Ziura for the fourth time “Handball player of the year”
  4. ↑ Ziura & Acimovic "Handball Player of the Year". oehb.sportlive.at, June 8, 2015, archived from the original on July 12, 2015 ; Retrieved June 9, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Ziura again voted Austria's handball player of the year. hla.at, May 31, 2016, archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 2, 2016 .
  6. ↑ handball-world.news: Vytas Ziuras takes over Union Juri Leoben as coach and hopes to return to the floor , accessed on June 14, 2020
  7. ↑ www.kleinezeitung.at: The merciless gentleman , accessed on January 17, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Žiūra, Vytautas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian handball player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR