Maricel Voinea is a retired Romanian team handball player and coach. He played 263 matches for the national team, scoring 706 goals and winning bronze medals at the 1980 and 1984 Olympics and 1990 World Championships. At the club level he was part of HC Minaur in Baia Mare (1977–1989), winning the EHF Cup in 1985 and 1988. He later joined the Spanish club Avidesa Valencia (1989–1992), and eventually moved on to Germany, where he competed for SG Leutershausen (1992–1994) and HSG Nordhorn (1994–1998).
Bogdan Brunon Wenta is a Polish politician and handball coach and former Polish and German handball player. He has been a member of the Poland men's national handball team in 1981–1994 and Germany men's national handball team in 1997–2000, a participant of the Olympic Games Sydney 2000, five-time Polish Champion, and former head coach of Poland. He has been one of the best handball player in the history of Polish handball. Between 2014 and 2018 he was a Member of the European Parliament for the Polish Civic Platform. In 2018, he was elected as Mayor of Kielce, having run from his own committee with the endorsement of the Civic Platform.
Markus Baur is a German handball coach and former player.
Veselin Vujović is a Montenegrin handball coach and former professional player. He is the current head coach of RK Nexe Našice and Qatar men's national handball team.
Svetlana Kitić is a Bosnian Serb retired professional handball player who competed at the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia, and was part of the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team in the early 2000s. In 2010, she was voted the best female handball player ever by the IHF.
Péter Kovács is a former Hungarian international handball player and handball coach.
Zinaida Mykhaylivna Turchyna is a retired Ukrainian handball player. Coached by her husband Ihor Turchyn she competed for the Soviet Union in all major international tournaments in 1973–1988, except for the boycotted 1984 Summer Olympics, and won three Olympic and five world championship medals. In 2000, a panel from the International Handball Federation and sports journalists named her the best female handball player of the 20th century.
Horst Spengler is a former West German handball player who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.
Heiner Brand is a German former handball player and coach. He was the Germany national team coach from 1997 to 2011. He is the only person who has won the world handball championship both as a player and as a coach.
Klavs Bruun Jørgensen is a Danish handball player and coach. As a player, he led FCK Håndbold to the Danish championship in May 2008. He has previously played for many years by Danish Handball League rivals GOG, with whom he won two Danish titles. For a short period he played for German league side SG Wallau-Massenheim.
Erik Staffan Olsson is a Swedish handball coach and former player. Olsson, who always played with no 13, was a left-handed right backcourt player with one of the most feared shots of all the elite players. Later in his career he won praise for his great playmaking skills.
Per Ola Markus Lindgren is a Swedish former handball player and current coach. He has been the head coach for IFK Kristianstad since 2012 and was the head coach for Sweden from 2008 to 2016. As a player, he won two World Championships, four European Championships and participated in four Olympic Games. He also won four Swedish Championships with Drott.
Patrik Ćavar is a retired Croatian handball player. The legendary left wing played in Croatia for Mehanika Metković, Badel 1862 Zagreb and Agram Medveščak, in Bosnia and Herzegovina for Borac Banja Luka, in Spain for FC Barcelona, BM Granollers, and in France for Saint-Marcel Vernon.
HC Dukla Prague is a handball club from Prague, Czech Republic, that plays in the Chance Extraliga.
László Marosi is a Hungarian former handball player, currently the president of the Tatabánya KC club. He participated at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where the Hungarian national team placed fourth, and at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where the team placed seventh. He also represented Hungary on two World Championships in 1986 and 1990 and won a silver medal on the first one.
Anders Eggert is a Danish handball coach and former player. He has previously played in Denmark for GOG and Skjern Håndbold, and german side SG Flensburg-Handewitt. He was part of SG Flensburg-Handewitt team that won the 2013–14 EHF Champions League trophy. In his 11 years with SG Flensburg-Handewitt he played in 461 matches and scored 2531 times.
Michal Barda is a Czech former handball goalkeeper and coach who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics.
HC Erlangen is a handball club from Erlangen, Germany. They currently compete in the Handball-Bundesliga.
Nenad Peruničić is a Serbian handball coach and former player.
Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen is a Danish professional handball coach and former handball wing player and currently the coach of the Danish national team. He was named World Coach of the Year in 2019 and 2021 by IHF. He is the first manager for a national team to win three world championships in a row (2019-2023).
