Ágnes Farkas

The native form of this personal name is Farkas Ágnes. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Ágnes Farkas
Farkas in 2015
Personal information
Full name Ágnes Farkas
Born (1973-04-21) 21 April 1973 (age 51)
Budapest, Hungary
Nationality Hungarian
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Left Back
Senior clubs
Years Team
–1992
 Építők SC
1992–1993
 Budapesti Spartacus SC
1993–1996
 Ferencvárosi TC
1996–1997
 Borussia Dortmund
1997–1999
 Podravka Koprivnica
1999–2000
 Dunaferr
2000–2003
 Ferencvárosi TC
2003–2005
 Aalborg DH
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–2004
 Hungary 206 (944)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2000 Sydney Team
World Championship
Silver medal – second place 1995 Austria and Hungary Team
Silver medal – second place 2003 Croatia Team
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 2000 Romania Team
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Netherlands Team

Ágnes Farkas (born 21 April 1973)[1] is a former Hungarian handball player. She won a gold medal at the 2000 European Championship, and earned a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics and at the 1995 and 2003 World Championships.

Career

Club

Farkas started to play handball for Építők SC, where she stayed until 1992, when she moved to Budapesti Spartacus. A year later. she joined Ferencvárosi TC, where she spent six seasons. There, she has achieved her greatest club successes, including league and cup titles, EHF Champions League and EHF Cup silver medals. Thanks to her outstanding performances over the years, she is regarded as a club icon by Ferencváros fans.

She also competed abroad, playing for German side Borussia Dortmund and later collecting two Croatian cup and Croatian championship title with Podravka Koprivnica. Farkas played her last seasons for Danish side Aalborg DH, crowning her career with a Danish league silver in her final year.

Although in April 2005, Gjerpen IF offered her a one-year contract with the option for another year,[2] Farkas stated she has no desire to stay in professional handball and eventually retired at the end of the season.[3]

However, she did not stay away from the sport entirely after her retirement, as she trains children.[4]

International

She debuted on the Hungarian national team on 16 October 1993 against Poland,[4] and participated in her first World Championship in that year, finishing seventh. In 1994, she was named the top scorer of the European Championship. One year later, she was a member of the team that won a silver medal at the World Championship, organized jointly by Austria and Hungary. In 1996, she was forced to the sidelines by an injury and missed both the Olympic Games and the European Championship that year.

She placed ninth in the World Championship in 1997. She won a bronze medal on the European Championship the next year and finished fifth in 1999. She was a member of the 2000 Summer Olympics silver medal team,[1][5] and was also selected to the squad that triumphed at the European Championship the same year. In 2002, she achieved fifth place in the European Championship with Hungary and was given the award as top scorer.

She participated on the 2003 World Championship and also took part at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where Hungary finished fifth.[6]

Achievements

Club

International

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ a b Profile: Ágnes Farkas sports.reference.com (Retrieved 19 December 2008)
  2. ^ "Farkas Ágnes Norvégiába szerződhet" (in Hungarian). Origo.hu. 12 April 2005. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  3. ^ "Farkas Ágnes bejelentette visszavonulását" (in Hungarian). Origo.hu. 28 April 2005. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  4. ^ a b c "Barkácsolásra váltott világklasszis kézisünk" (in Hungarian). Origo.hu. 9 July 2007. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  5. ^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved 19 December 2008)
  6. ^ "Hungary Handball at the 2004 Athina Summer Games". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
  7. ^ "Az államfő kitüntette az olimpia hőseit" (in Hungarian). Origo.hu. 14 October 2000. Archived from the original on 25 January 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2011.