Name Nikola Karabatic 2002– France Weight 102 kg Number 44 Height 1.96 m | Current club PSG Handball Role Handball Player Playing position Name Nikola Karabatic Siblings Luka Karabatic | |
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Born April 11, 1984 (age 40) Nis, SFR Yugoslavia ( 1984-04-11 ) 2000–20052005–20092009–201320132013–20152015– Montpellier HBTHW KielMontpellier HBPays d\'AixFC BarcelonaPSG Handball Parents Branko Karabatic, Radmila Karabatic Similar People Luka Karabatic, Thierry Omeyer, Daniel Narcisse, Luc Abalo, Mikkel Hansen Profiles | ||
Nikola Karabatić - "Im King Kong"
Nikola Karabatić (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Карабатић; born 11 April 1984) is a French handball player for Paris Saint-Germain and the French national team.
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- Nikola Karabati Im King Kong
- Best handball players nikola karabati 30 goals
- Club career
- International career
- Personal life
- Team awards
- References
With the French national handball team, he has won two Olympic gold medals, which came in the Summer Olympics of 2008 and 2012, four World Championship gold medals, which came in 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2017 as well as three gold medals in the European Championship which came in 2006, 2010 and 2014. In addition, he also won L'Équipe Champion of Champions in 2011.
Best handball players nikola karabati 30 goals
Club career
Karabatić began his professional career at the top French club Montpellier HB. It was there he became the French champion in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 as well as also winning the Champions League in 2003. He then played for the German club THW Kiel, who became German champions in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, and won the EHF Champions League in 2007. In the summer of 2009 he left Germany and returned to Montpellier HB, winning three further French champion titles in 2010, 2011 and 2012. After a quick stay in Pays d'Aix Université Club handball, Aix-en-Provence, between February and June in 2013, he moved to FC Barcelona and then in 2015 he moved to and currently plays for PSG Handball.
International career
He is an Olympic, World and European champion. He first became a European champion in the 2006 European Men's Handball Championship, subsequentially becoming a bronze medallist in the 2008 edition of the championship. He has received two bronze medals at the World Championships, in 2003 and 2005. At the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship, he was voted into the All-Star Team in which France finished fourth. He was also voted into the All Star Team at the 2004 European Men's Handball Championship.
Personal life
Nikola was born in Niš, SFR Yugoslavia, to a Croatian father and Serbian mother. Nikola's father Branko Karabatić, who was also a professional handball player, is originally from Vrsine, a village between Trogir and Marina in Croatia. In his career, Branko played for the Železničar handball team from Niš, which is where he met his wife Radmila, who is originally from Aleksinac, Serbia. The family moved to France after Nikola's father got a coaching job there when Nikola was 3 and a half years old. Nikola has a younger brother, Luka (born 19 April 1988).
On 30 September 2012, he was involved in match-fixing and his arrested alongside his wife and his brother Luka.
In addition to French, he also speaks English, German, Spanish and Serbo-Croatian.