THIS IS ME: Ausra Fridrikas was the first female handball player to win the EF Champions League six times, as well as winning the world championship. This is her story
She was the first female handball player to win the EHF Champions League six times, and also raised the competition’s predecessor twice: Ausra Fridrikas was world champion with the Soviet Union, won two bronze medals for Austria, was IHF World Player of the Year in 1999 and imprinted a generation, first at Hypo then at Slagelse. This episode of our This is me series is the story of her handball life – a story of blood, sweat, tears and hard training.
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EHF / Björn Pazen