Benedek Nagy | |||
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Personal information | |||
Born | Budapest, Hungary | 17 November 2001||
Nationality | Hungarian | ||
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | HBW Balingen-Weilstetten | ||
Youth career | |||
Years | Team | ||
2014–2016 | Csanádi KSI SE | ||
2016–2018 | Rév TSC | ||
Senior clubs | |||
Years | Team | ||
2018– | ![]() | ||
2020–2022 | → ![]() | ||
2022–2023 | → ![]() | ||
2024 | → ![]() | ||
2024– | → ![]() | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2025– | Hungary | 1 | (0) |
Benedek Nagy (born 17 November 2001) is a Hungarian handball player for HBW Balingen-Weilstetten.
Benedek started his career at Csanádi KSI SE. In 2016, he transferred to the Rév TSC team, from where he moved to Telekom Veszprém in August 2018. In the 2018/2019 and 2019/20 seasons, he played in Telekom Veszprém's second team only in Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B. From 2020, he was loaned to the HE-DO B. Braun Gyöngyös team for 2 seasons. [1] He made his debut in the Hungarian first division in the HE-DO B. Braun Gyöngyös team in September 2020. He also played with HE-DO B. Braun Gyöngyös in the 2020/21 EHF European League, playing in all 4 of the team's matches. Telekom Veszprém loaned him to MOL-Tatabánya KC for the 2022/23 season. [2] He won a bronze medal here at the end of the season, but returned to Telekom Veszprém in the summer. [3] Here he was also able to make his debut in the EHF Champions League: in the fall of 2023, he played in 6 matches. In the spring of 2024, he was loaned to the Spanish first division BM Atlético Valladolid. [4] In May 2024, the German HBW Balingen-Weilstetten announced that Benedek would join their team on loan for 1 year from the summer. [5] At the end of the season, HBW Balingen-Weilstetten was relegated from the Handball-Bundesliga, so Benedek started the 2024/25 season in the 2. Handball-Bundesliga.
He was 5th with the Hungarian team at the 2019 World Youth Championship. He was included in the large squad of the 2025 World Men's Handball Championship, [6] but in the end he will not become a member of the narrow squad. He made his debut for the Hungarian men's adult national team on May 11, 2025 in Nagykanizsa, in a European Championship qualifying match against Finland, where the Hungarian national team defeated the Finland national team 37-24. [7]