Jérôme Fernandez is a retired French handball player. He was a captain of the France men's national handball team and currently holds the record for the number of goals for France's national team.
The Sweden men's national handball team is Sweden's national team in men's handball and is controlled by the Swedish Handball Association. Its most successful periods were under coaches Curt Wadmark (1948–1967) and Bengt Johansson (1988–2004). The team under Bengt Johansson, nicknamed Bengan Boys in Sweden, is regarded as one of the finest national teams in the history of the sport with players like Tomas Svensson, Staffan Olsson, Magnus Wislander and Stefan Lövgren. From 1990 through 2002 the team reached the medal round in every championship and qualified for a record 8 championship finals in a row 1996–2002.
SG Flensburg-Handewitt is a professional handball club from Flensburg and Handewitt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and EHF European League. They play home matches at Flens-Arena. Since forming in 1990, the club has been one of Germany's most successful teams domestically and in European tournaments. The club is best known for winning the EHF Champions League in 2014 by defeating arch-rivals THW Kiel in the final 30–28.
THW Kiel is a professional handball club from Kiel, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and are the record champion with 23 titles.
Talant Mushanbetovich Dujshebaev is a former handball player, and current coach, who serves as the head coach for Vive Kielce. Dujshebaev is considered by many to be one of the greatest handball coaches of his generation. He successively played for 4 national teams in his playing career: First for the Soviet Union, then the Unified Team, then Russia and finally Spain. His most usual demarcation as a player was centre backcourt. After initially having success with BM Ciudad Real as a coach, he has been coaching Kielce for nearly a decade now.
Nikola Karabatić is a French former professional handball player. He is regarded as one of the greatest players in handball history.
Kim Andersson is a Swedish handball player for Ystads IF.
Lasse Svan Hansen is a Danish retired handballer, who last played for SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the Danish national team. He was admitted to the Danish sports hall of fame in 2024.
Michaël Guigou is a French former handball player for USAM Nîmes Gard and the French national team.
Bojana Popović née Petrović, is a handball coach and a retired Montenegrin handballer. She is considered by many to be the best female handball player of the past decade, despite not being given any official recognition. After winning the Women's EHF Champions League with Budućnost and a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games with the Montenegro national team, Bojana Popović decided to retire from handball. However, in June 2016 Popović announced she would come out of retirement and make herself available for selection by the Montenegro national handball team to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Gergő Iváncsik is a former Hungarian handballer who played for Telekom Veszprém and for the Hungarian national team. He retired from handball in 2017.
Ferenc Ilyés is a retired Hungarian handball player.
Roland Mikler is a Hungarian handball player for OTP Bank-Pick Szeged and the Hungarian national team.
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.
Cristian Ugalde García is a Spanish professional handball player for Tatabánya KC and the Spain national team.
Jonas Källman is a Swedish handball coach and former player.
Tobias Karlsson is a Swedish former handball player who last played for SG Flensburg Handewitt. He competed for the Swedish national team that won the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Füchse Berlin is a professional handball club from Berlin, Germany, that currently competes in the Handball-Bundesliga, the highest national league, and in EHF competitions.
Ystads IF is a professional handball club from Ystad, Sweden. They play in Handbollsligan. They won the Swedish Championship in 1976, 1992 and 2022.
Andreas Miroslav Palicka is a Swedish professional handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and the Swedish national team.
