The best handball players in the world for 2013 are Domagoj Duvnjak and Andrea Lekić.
In the voting via the IHF website, the middle backs of Croatia and Serbia received the most votes and won prestigious awards for the first time in their careers.
In addition to Lekić, the Montenegrin national team member Katarina Bulatović, Hungarian Anita Gorbic, as well as Norwegians Hajdi Loke and Katrin Lunde-Haraldsen were also in the competition, while Duvnjak "beat" naturalized Spaniard Arpad Šterbík, Frenchman Daniel Narsis, Czech Filip Jiha and Dane Mikel Hansen. .
In 2013, Duvnjak won bronze with Croatia at the World Championship in Spain, and he was the hero of Hamburg, which surprised everyone and won the Champions League.
"It's a wonderful feeling to be the best handball player in the world, but bitterness remains after losing to Spain in the fight for bronze at the European Championship".
"I thank all the fans, teammates in the national team and the club, and the coaches. But this is not the peak of my career, it will be gold in a big competition with the national team," said the future player Kila after losing to Spain in the match for 3rd place at the European Championship.
Lekić also won the Champions League with Đero, and then moved to Vardar, with whom she entered the main stage of the highest quality European competition. By the way, she also won a medal at the World Championships in 2013, but a silver one.
Interestingly, both Lekić and Duvnjak won 33 percent of the votes in the election in which just over 35 fans participated.
Behind the 26-year-old Serbian woman were Gorbic (27 percent), Lunde-Haraldsen (20%), Bulatović (13) and the 2011 winner Loke with seven percent of the vote.
Duvnjak is watched from behind by former laureates themselves - Hansen (winner in 2011, 27%), Šterbik (2005, 20%), Jiha (2010, 13%) and Narsis (2012, 7%).
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