Nationality Hungarian Name Erzsebet Kocsis 1986–1996 Hungary | Current club — Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | |
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Born 11 March 1965 (age 59)
Gyor, Hungary ( 1965-03-11 ) 1982–1989
1989–1999
1999–2000
2009 Gyori Richards
Dunaujvaros
Kiskorosi KC
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Erzsébet Kocsis (born 11 March 1965 in Győr) is a Hungarian former handball player and the current technical director of Dunaújvárosi NKS. She was voted World Handball Player of the Year 1995 by the International Handball Federation.
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She has won 125 caps for the Hungarian national team, with them she received a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1995 World Championship.
At club level, she has won all three major continental titles with Dunaújváros. First in 1995 the EHF Cup Winners' Cup, four years later the EHF Cup, and in 1999 the EHF Champions League. She gave up professional handball in 2000, however, following her former team have lost most of their players due to financial problems, she returned into action in 2009, helping Dunaújváros to avoid the relegation.
She is married to Árpád Sári, a former handballer. Their daughter, Barbara Sári is a professional handball player as well.