Full name Beata Siti Name Beata Siti 1994–2004 Hungary | Playing position Nationality Hungarian Role Olympic athlete | |
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Born 23 September 1973 (age 50)
Nagykanizsa, Hungary ( 1973-09-23 ) Current club Alcoa FKC
(technical director) 0000–1992
1992–2000
2000–2002
2002–2006 Nagykanizsai Olajbanyasz SE
Dunaferr SE
Ikast Bording EH
Alcoa FKC | ||
Beáta Siti (born 23 September 1973 in Nagykanizsa) is a former Hungarian team handball player, and later coach. During her active career she was European champion and silver medalist from both World Championships and the Olympic Games. Her biggest success with the national team was in 2000, when she obtained the gold medal at the European Championship.
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Career
As a club player Siti has won all major continental trophies, including three EHF Cup, an EHF Cup Winners' Cup and an EHF Champions League title. Siti made her international debut on 25 November 1994 against Macedonia, and her first major tournament was the 1995 World Women's Handball Championship, where the Hungarian team won the silver medals after falling short against South Korea in the final. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta she won a bronze medal with the Hungarian team, after losing for South Korea in the semi final, and winning the bronze final against Norway. In 1996 she also competed at the European Championships. At the 1998 European Women's Handball Championship in the Netherlands, she won a bronze medal with the Hungarian team. She participated at the 1999 World Championship where Hungary placed fifth. In the 2000 season she won a silver medal at the Summer Olympics in Sydney, after playing the final against Denmark. She competed at the 2000 European Women's Handball Championship, where the Hungarian team won gold medals ahead of Ukraine and Russia.
She was forced to retire in 2006 after a knee ligament injury, following that she took the technical director position of Alcoa FKC. Since 2011 beside her club duties she also works as the assistant coach of the Hungarian women's national team.
Personal life
She has a younger sister, Eszter Siti, who is also a former Hungarian international handball player and European champion.