Antje Angela Malestein (born 31 January 1993) is a Dutch

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player for

Ferencvárosi TC Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...

and the Dutch national team. She was a part the Netherlands team that won the

2019 World Women's Handball Championship The 2019 IHF World Women's Handball Championship, the 24th event hosted by the International Handball Federation, was held in Japan from 30 November to 15 December 2019. The Netherlands won their first title after defeating Spain in the final. Th ...

; the first title in the country's history.

Career

Angela Malestein started her career at VOC Amsterdam in 2008, where she played until 2011 where she joined SV Dalfsen Handbal, where she won the

Eredivisie The Eredivisie (; "Honour Division" or "Premier Division") is a professional association football league in the Netherlands and the highest level of the Dutch football league system. The league was founded in 1956, two years after the start o ...

. A year later she joined German team HSG Blomberg-Lippe. In 2014 she joined league rivals SG BBM Bietigheim. Here she won the 2017 and 2019 German championship. In 2020 she joined Hungarian side

. Here she won the 2021 and 2024 Hungarian championship and the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Hungarian cup. She also reached the final of the 2022-2023 Champions League.

National Team

Malestein debuted for the Dutch national team on November 26th 2009 against Germany. At the 2011 U-19 European championship she won silver medals with the Dutch team. She participated at 2010 European Championship and at the

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

and 2013 World Championships. Malestein also competed at the 2012 Women's Junior World Handball Championship in the

Czech Republic The Czech Republic, also known as Czechia, and historically known as Bohemia, is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Austria to the south, Germany to the west, Poland to the northeast, and Slovakia to the south ...

. She won bronze medals at both the 2017 World Championship and the 2018 European Championship. Her biggest achievement came at 2019 World Championship in Japan, where Netherlands won gold medals, beating Spain in the final 30:29 She also represented the Netherlands at the

2016 Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

in Rio de Janeiro and the

2020 Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some of the preliminary sporting events beginning on 21 July 2021. Tokyo ...

in Tokyo. At the 2023 World Championship she finished 5th with the Dutch team.

Achievements

EHF Champions League The EHF Champions League is the most important club handball competition for men's teams in Europe and involves the leading teams from the top European nations. The competition is organised every year by EHF. The official name for the men's com ...

** :

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

Bundesliga The Bundesliga (; ), sometimes referred to as the Fußball-Bundesliga () or 1. Bundesliga (), is a professional association football league in Germany and the highest level of the German football league system. The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams ...

** : 2017, 2019 *

** : 2012 * Nemzeti Bajnokság **:

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

, 2024 *

Magyar Kupa The Hungarian Cup (, ), officially known as MOL Magyar Kupa for sponsorship reasons, is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association'','' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of ...

**: 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Individual awards

* All-Star Right Wing of the

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

* EHF Excellence Awards Best right wing of the season: 2022/23

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Malestein, Angela 1993 births Living people Dutch female handball players People from Spakenburg Dutch expatriate handball players in Germany Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Hungary Ferencvárosi TC players (women's handball) Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for the Netherlands Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Utrecht (province) Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Expatriate handball players in Hungary 21st-century Dutch sportswomen