Australia national handball team

Australia Men
Information
Association	Australian Handball Federation
Colours
Home Away
Results
Summer Olympics
Appearances	1 (First in 2000)
Best result	12th, 2000
World Championship
Appearances	7 (First in 1999)
Best result	21st, 2003
Oceania Nations Cup
Appearances	9 (First in 2004)
Best result	1st, 8 Times
Last updated on Unknown.

Handball Australia is the national governing body for the Olympic Sport of Handball and for the sport of Beach Handball.^[1] Australia has consistently won the Oceania championships in both men's and women's division. In 2014 the International Handball Federation (IHF) decided to exclude Australia from the 2015 World Men's Handball Championship.^[2] The team is headed to Kosovo to play in the IHF Emerging Nations Trophy from 20–26 June. They have been drawn in Pool F alongside Great Britain and Armenia. The team will be contesting the Asian Men's Olympic Qualifiers in Qatar in November 2015. This was part of the outcome of Australia having been excluded from the 2015 World Championships.

Current men's squad

This is the squad for the 2013 World Men's Handball Championship.

2014-2015 Management Team

Head coach: Jan Ottosen (Denmark)

Manager:

No. Pos. Name Date of birth (age) Height App. Goals Club 1 GK Ognjen Latinović (1985-08-02)2 August 1985 (aged 29) 1.80 m 41 0 Univ. of Queensland 3 LW Almir Pandžo (1992-09-02)2 September 1992 (aged 22) 1.90 m 0 0 RK Iskra Bugojno 4 RB Bevan Calvert (1986-04-04)4 April 1986 (aged 28) 1.77 m 39 113 TSV Altenholz 5 P Tommy Fletcher (1990-03-18)18 March 1990 (aged 24) 1.86 m 22 86 Skogås HK 6 P Callum Mouncey (1989-10-21)21 October 1989 (aged 25) 1.89 m 2 4 Canberra HC 7 RW Antonio Queiroz (1980-08-06)6 August 1980 (aged 34) 1.78 m 0 0 St. Kilda HC 8 LB Caleb Gahan (1989-08-02)2 August 1989 (aged 25) 1.90 m 23 60 UCAM Club Balonmano Murcia 9 RB Martin Najdovski (1990-05-22)22 May 1990 (aged 24) 1.85 m 0 0 Trelleborgs HB 12 GK Kristofer Karlsson (1992-10-26)26 October 1992 (aged 22) 1.87 m 0 0 AIK Handboll 14 LW Mitchell Hedges (1991-02-14)14 February 1991 (aged 23) 1.76 m 12 9 Harbourside 15 RW Daniel Kelly (1988-05-07)7 May 1988 (aged 26) 1.76 m 27 55 KFUMs Boldklub 16 GK Boris Jovanović (1986-04-28)28 April 1986 (aged 28) 1.94 m 4 0 Ankenes HK 17 RB Tim Anderson (1991-08-17)17 August 1991 (aged 23) 1.92 m 2 2 Hills HC 18 P Jay Abiera (1989-05-11)11 May 1989 (aged 25) 1.88 m 0 0 St. Kilda HC 21 LB Ognjen Matić (1989-08-21)21 August 1989 (aged 25) 1.97 m 24 33 Univ. of Sydney 31 LB Nemanja Subotić (1983-04-05)5 April 1983 (aged 31) 1.94 m 28 53 RK BASK

World Championship record

Olympic record

Oceania Nations Cup record

Pacific Cup record

References

External links

• Official website
• International Results
• IHF profile
• For the love of the game. Sydney Morning Herald. 8 January, 2011.
• Australia takes on Egypt during the handball championships. Daily Telegraph Digital. Fairfield Advance. 6 February, 2013.

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