Jelena Grubišić

Jelena Grubišić
Personal information
Born	(1987-01-20) 20 January 1987 (age 37) Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality	Croatian
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	CSM București
Number	87
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2002–2009	Lokomotiva Zagreb
2009–2014	Krim Ljubljana
2014–2015	Győri ETO KC
2015–2022	CSM București
National team
Years	Team
	Croatia

Jelena Grubišić (born 20 January 1987)^[1] is a retired Croatian handballer who played for the Croatia national team.

She was given the award of Cetățean de onoare ("Honorary Citizen") of the city of Bucharest in 2016.^[2]

She was inducted in the European Handball Hall of Fame in 2023.^[3]

International honours

• EHF Champions League:
  • Winner: 2016
  • Bronze Medalist: 2017, 2018

Individual awards

• Most Valuable Player of the Final Four of EHF Champions League: 2016
• Croatian Female Handballer of the Year: 2016^[4]
• Balkan-Handball.com Ex-Yugoslavian Handballer of the Year: 2016^[5]
• All-Star Goalkeeper of the Romanian League: 2021

References

1. "Jelena Grubisic Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
2. "Cetățeni de Onoare cu acte » Premiere în masă făcută de Gabriela Firea: cine sunt sportivii care au fost recompensați" (in Romanian). Gazeta Sporturilor. 10 November 2016.
3. "Three Croatians enter first-ever Hall of Fame of European Handball". Croatia Week. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
4. "Jelena Grubišić, Manuel Štrlek i Željko Babić najbolji u 2016. godini" (in Croatian). vecernji.hr. 28 December 2016.
5. "Jovanka Radičević najbolja Ex-YU rukometašica u sezoni 2017/2018" (in Serbian). balkan-handball.com. 13 July 2018.

External links

• Jelena Grubišić at the European Handball Federation
• Jelena Grubišić at Olympedia