Nikola Karabatić

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Medal record
Image:Nikola Karabatic
Competitor for France
Men's handball
World Championships
Bronze	2003	Team competition
Bronze	2005	Team competition
European Championships
Gold	2006 Switzerland	Team competition
Bronze	2008 Norway	Team competition

Nikola Karabatić (born April 11, 1984 in Niš, SFR Yugoslavia) is a French team handball player of Croatian and Serbian origin. He participated on the French national handball team^[1] that received bronze medals at the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship. He was top scorer at the championship together with Ivano Balić and Lars Christiansen, and was voted as Most Valuable Player at the championship. Despite his still low age, he is considered to be the best and most complete handball player of the world (Summer 2008).

[edit] With the French national team

He is European Champion from 2006, and received a bronze medal in 2008. He has received two bronze medals at the World Championships, in 2003 and 2005. At the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship he was woted into the All-Star Team, when France finished fourth. He was also voted into the All Star Team at the 2004 European Men's Handball Championship.

[edit] Club player

Karabatić plays for the German club THW Kiel, becoming German champions in 2006 and 2007, and winning the EHF Champions League in 2007. He is earlier French champion in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 with the club Montpellier HB, which also won the Champions League in 2003.