Bojan Lah and David Sok World Handball Referees 2023!
The Slovenian referee’s pair, Bojan Lah and David Sok, is the best in the world of handball in 2023! For the 8th year in a row Handball-Planet.com organized the Contest for the WORLD HANDBALL REFEREE 2023 powered by Nexe Grupa, based on opinion of handball journalists from all over the world and handball fans (over 14.000 votes), who voted in the two weeks and added their votes to existing number of points given by the expert’s jury.
Lah and Sok whistled Men’s EHF Champions League Final 2023 in Cologne and Women’s World Championship 2023 Final in Herning.
VOTES (JOURNALIST + FANS)
WORLD HANDBALL REFEREES 2023?
- Lah – Sok (Slovenia) (55%, 7,248 Votes + 246 Instagram) 29 + 10 39
- Nacevski – Nikolov (North Macedonia) (36%, 4,814 Votes + 202 Instagram) 20 + 7 27
- Schulze – Tonnies (Germany) (5%, 727 Votes + 228 Instagram) 13 + 4 17
- Novotny – Horacek (Czech Republic) (4%, 498 Votes + 91 Instagram) 11 + 1 12
Total Voters: 14,053
JURY MEMBERS:
Bjorn Pazen (Handball Woche, Germany)
Rici Gjamovski (g-sport.mk, North Macedonia)
Stig Nygard (TV 2, Norway)
Jasmin Tajić (Oslobodjenje, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Jorge Dargel (MARCA, Spain)
Života Bogdanović (Balkan-handball.com, Serbia)
Sergey Prigolovkin (handballfast.com, Russia)
Lojze Grčman (Rokometastično, Slovenia)
Lars Bruun Mortensen (TV2.dk, Denmark)
Johannes Hahn (ORF, Austria)
Konstantinos Chatzidimitriou (e-HANDBALL.gr, Greece)
JURY MEMBERS FROM THE TOP HANDBALL NATIONS
Our goal that handball world gets a public and fair contest for the World best players of the year, since 2010 received a big support from the parts of handball globe. WORLD HANDBALL COACH 2020 Jury powered by Nexe is made of the people with their names and CV’s with the clear aim to get opinion from different countries, handball schools and traditions. Our Jury members are famous handball specialists in their countries, which coming from the biggest media (Marca, TV 2 NO, , Arena Sport, Oslobodjenje), but also from specialized websites and newspapers as Handball Woche, Balkan-Handball.com,etc, …
WINNERS
2016 – Nacevski / Nikolov (Macedonia)
2017 – Gjeding / Hansen (Denmark)
2018 – Raluy / Sabroso (Spain)
2019 – Gubica / Milosevic (Croatia)
2020 – Gubica / Milosevic (Croatia)
2021 – Raluy / Sabroso (Spain)
2022 – Gubica / Milosevic (Croatia)
2023 – Lah / Sok (Slovenia)
WORLD HANDBALL REFEREE 2023 – PARTNERS
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