Joël Marc Abati is a French handball player who has played ten years for SC Magdeburg in Germany until 2007. After returning to France and playing two years for Montpellier HB he ended his professional career in 2009, having won numerous prizes for his clubs and his country. In November 2019 he signed as trainer for the Belgian club Sporting Pelt. He shortly returned to handball in May 2011 to join SC DHfK Leipzig in Germany.
Stefan Kretzschmar is a retired professional German handball player. He was a three-time Olympic athlete and winner of the Olympic silver medal with the German team in 2004, and he won the
Peter Rost is a former German Team handball player; today he works as a coach and an official in this sport. His biggest success was winning the Olympic gold medal as the captain of the national team of East Germany in Moscow in 1980.
Alfreð Gíslason is an Icelandic handball coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the German men's national team. He won titles in Iceland, Germany and Spain as a player before starting his coaching career in 1991 with Icelandic team KA as a player-coach. He later coached German club SC Magdeburg, where he won the Bundesliga and the EHF Champions League, the Icelandic men's national team and German club THW Kiel, where he won six Bundesliga, six DHB-Pokal and two EHF Champions League titles. Alfreð was the Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year in 1989 and inducted into the National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland Hall of Fame in 2019.
Hans Óttar Lindberg Tómasson is a Danish handball player of Icelandic descent for HØJ Elite and the Danish national team. He has played the second most matches for the Danish national team, and measured in years he has the record for longest time on the national team ever as well as oldest player for the Danish team. He is also the all time German Bundesliga top scorer.
Niklas Landin Jacobsen is a Danish handballer for Aalborg Håndbold.
Guðjón Valur Sigurðsson is an Icelandic retired handball player and current coach of VfL Gummersbach. A captain of the Iceland men's national handball team, Guðjón Valur broke the world record for most goals scored in international men's handball in 2018. He won silver with the Icelandic handball team at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, as well as bronze at the 2010 European Championship.
SC DHfK Leipzig e. V.(Sportclub Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur Leipzig e. V.) is a sports club in Leipzig, Germany. It was established in 1954 as a competitive sports club, initially under the name SC Wissenschaft DHfK Leipzig, and remained part of the East German sports university Deutsche Hochschule für Körperkultur (DHfK) until the university was closed in 1991. The club has about 6,100 members (2024) and is the biggest in Leipzig.
Susann Müller is a Retired German handball player and coach and trains the women's team of Füchse Berlin.
Raul Santos is an Austrian handball player for SC DHfK Leipzig and the Austrian national team.
Michael Damgaard Nielsen is a Danish handball player for SC Magdeburg and the Danish national team.
Zsolt Balogh is a Hungarian handball player for Ferencvárosi TC and the Hungarian national team.
SC DHfK Leipzig Handball is a German handball team from Leipzig, Germany, that plays in the Handball-Bundesliga. It was one of the strongest GDR clubs in late 1950s and 1960s.
Kristian Sæverås is a Norwegian handball player for SC DHfK Leipzig Handball and the Norwegian national team.
Hampus Wanne is a Swedish professional handballer for FC Barcelona and the Swedish national team.
Franz Semper is a German handball player for SC DHfK Leipzig and the German national team.
Felix Niklas Claar is a Swedish handball player for SC Magdeburg and the Swedish national team. He has won nine titles at club level playing for teams in Sweden, Denmark and Germany.
Goran Stojanović is a Serbian handball coach and former player.
Cara Hartstock is a German handball player for Buxtehuder SV in the Frauen Handball-Bundesliga.
Domenico Ebner is a German Italian handball player who plays as a goalkeeper for SC DHfK Leipzig and the Italian national team. Born in Freiburg, Germany, Ebner is of Italian heritage through his mother, and on request from the Italian national team, he applied for Italian as a second nationality, and could thus play for the Italian national team.
