Blaženko Lacković

Blaženko Lacković (born 25 December 1980) is a retired Croatian handball player.

Blaženko Lacković
Personal information
Full name	Blaženko Lacković
Born	25 December 1980 Novi Marof, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Croatian
Height	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)
Playing position	Left back
Number	6
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1997–2001	RK Varteks Di Caprio
2001–2004	Badel 1862 Zagreb
2004–2008	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2008–2014	HSV Hamburg
2014–2016	RK Vardar
2016–2017	THW Kiel
2017–2020	HSV Hamburg
National team
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2001–2013	Croatia	195	(571)
Teams managed
2020–	HSV Hamburg (Assistant)
Medal record Men's handball Representing  Croatia Olympic Games 2004 Athens Team Competition 2012 London Team Competition World Championship 2003 Portugal Team Competition 2005 Tunisia Team Competition 2009 Croatia Team Competition 2013 Spain Team Competition European Championship 2008 Norway Team Competition 2010 Austria Team Competition 2012 Serbia Team Competition Mediterranean Games 2001 Tunis Team Competition

He is World champion from 2003,[1] and Olympic champion from 2004 with the Croatian national team.[2][3] He received silver medals at the 2005 and 2009 World championships, silver medals at the 2008 and 2010 European championships and bronze medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the 2012 European Championship and the 2013 World Championship.

Clubs

Lacković has played for the Croatian clubs RK Varteks di Caprio, Metković and RK Zagreb. He was a member of German club SG Flensburg-Handewitt, which reached the EHF Champions League final in 2007. He eventually won the title with HSV Hamburg during the 2012–13 season. After six years in Hamburg Lacković signed for Macedonian side RK Vardar Skopje in the summer of 2014.On February 3, 2016 Lackovic signed for German club THW Kiel. In Kiel he plays with his teammates in national team Domagoj Duvnjak and Ilija Brozovic.

Honours

Zagreb

• Croatian First League (3): 2001-02, 2002–03, 2003–04
• Croatian Cup (3): 2002, 2003, 2004

Flensburg

• DHB-Pokal (1): 2005
• EHF Champions League Finalist (1): 2006-07

HSV

• Bundesliga (1): 2010-11
• DHB-Pokal (1): 2010
• Super Cup (2): 2009, 2010
• EHF Champions League (1): 2012-13

Vardar

• Macedonian Super League (2): 2014-15, 2015–16
• Macedonian Cup (2): 2015, 2016
• SEHA League (1): 2015-16

Kiel

• DHB-Pokal (1): 2017

Individual

• Franjo Bučar State Award for Sport - 2004
• 3rd top assist at 2006 European Championship
• Best left back at 2009 World Championship

Orders

• Order of Danica Hrvatska with face of Franjo Bučar [4]

References

1. "Croatia" Archived 2008-02-05 at the Wayback Machine – European Handball Federation (2008) (Retrieved on February 1, 2008)
2. "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 1, 2008)
3. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Blaženko Lacković". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
4. "Blaženko Lacković biography". hoo.hr (in Croatian).

External links

• Blaženko Lacković at Olympedia
• Blaženko Lacković at the Olympic Channel
• Blaženko Lacković at the International Olympic Committee
• Blaženko Lacković at the Croatian Olympic Committee (also available in Croatian)