The fifth year in a row, Handballl-Planet.com organizes the Contest for the MIZUNO FEMALE WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2015! The Voting process of the traditional December competition is based on opinion of 18 handball journalists from all over the world. Handball-Planet.com Jury of handball Experts from three continents (16 countries) made the list of 32 players (four per team’s position) who will be in the race for the title of MIZUNO FEMALE WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2015, but also MIZUNO “BEST 8” OF WORLD HANDBALL 2015.

The last member of Jury are Handball-Planet.com visitors, who can support their favorites by joining the Polls until January 6. It is important to be remembered that votes of handball fans across the globe will be added to existing number of points given by the journalist’s jury.

Journalists and fans will together announce the best at the end of the voting process.

Here are the nominations for the MIZUNO FEMALE WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2015 per position (CLICK AND VOTE):

FEMALE WORLD LEFT WING 2015

FEMALE WORLD LEFT BACK 2015

FEMALE WORLD PLAYMAKER 2015

FEMALE WORLD RIGHT BACK 2015

FEMALE WORLD RIGHT WING 2015

FEMALE WORLD LINE-PLAYER 2015

FEMALE WORLD GOALKEEPER 2015

FEMALE WORLD DEFENSIVE PLAYER 2015

VOTE UNTIL JANUARY 6

JURY MEMBERS:

Bjorn Pazen (Handball Woche, Germany)

Stig Nygard (TV 2, Norway)

Jozsef Simon (Nemzeti Sport, Hungary)

Patrick Andersson (Hbold.dk, Denmark)

Jorge Dargel (MARCA, Spain)

Matteo Aldamonte (FIGH, Italy)

Yuki Hattori (Japanese Handball Magazine, Japan)

Sergey Novikov (Pressball newspapers, Belarus)

Laura Agena (Handball-Planet.com, Argentina)

Marian Ursescu (GAZETA SPORTURILOR, Romania)

Juhani Kantee (Klibba.com, Finland)

Sergey Prigolovkin (Rushandball.ru, Russia)

Nikola Nikolić (VIJESTI, Montenegro)

Ibolya Szekeres (Time Out Magazine, Hungary-Norway)

Zorica Radojković (Balkan-Handball.com, Serbia)

Amina Idrizi (24rakomet.mk, Macedonia)

Clement Domas (HANDNEWS TEAM, France)

Života Bogdanović (HANDBALL-PLANET TEAM)

JURY MEMBERS FROM EUROPE, ASIA AND SOUTH AMERICA

Handball-Planet.com organizes the biggest FEMALE WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2015 Jury in the history of our Contest with the clear aim to get opinion from the different countries, continents, handball schools and traditions. Our Jury members are famous handball specialists in their countries, which coming from the biggest media (Marca, TV 2 NO), but also from specialized websites and newspapers as Handnews.fr, Hbold.dk, Balkan-Handball.com, rushandball.ru, rakomet 24, Time Out Magazine and so on…

LOKE AND TOMORI

Handball-Planet.com looking for the fifth best player on the Earth in the history of our Contest. Norwegian line-player Heidi Loke won three titles in 2011, 2012 and 2014, while in 2012 the best was Hungarian left back Zsuzsanna Tomori.

The FEMALE WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2014 was Heidi Loke, with the great support of Jury members, but also over 106.000 fans who voted in our Polls.



BUDUĆNOST, VARDAR AND BUCHAREST – NORWAY AND MONTENEGRO

The biggest number of nominations for MIZUNO FEMALE WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2015 got girls from ŽRK Budućnost – 5. The second power in opinion of journalists Jury are ŽRK Vardar and CSM Bucharest with four each. Russian Rostov have three, Baia Mare, Gyor and Larvik two followed by group of teams with one nomination.

In total, 32 nominees coming from 16 teams.

Situation with the national teams is a little bit different (13 in total). Like in a year before, Norway giving the biggest number of players (5) followed by Montenegro (4), France, Romania, Netherlands and Russia (3).

MIZUNO – PREMIUM PARTNER

This year the official name of the Contest will be MIZUNO FEMALE WORLD HANDBALL PLAYER 2015 as we joined our forces with one of the biggest brands in handball world – MIZUNO, who became a premium partner of the whole project.

TECHNICAL PARTNER

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