Estavana Polman (born 5 August 1992) is a Dutch

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player for CS Rapid București and the Dutch national team. She was a part the Netherlands team that won the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship; the first title in the country's history.2019 World Women's Handball Championship roster
/ref> She represented the Netherlands in younger age categories as well and collected the silver medal at the 2011 Women's U-19 European Handball Championship. In addition, she was voted into the all-star team of the tournament in playmaker position. She was surprisingly not included in the Dutch team for the 2024 European Championship. She did however return to the Dutch team in March 2025.

Personal life

Since August 2016, she has been in a relationship with Dutch footballer Rafael van der Vaart. On 27 December 2016, they announced that they are expecting a child. On 24 June 2017, she gave birth to a 3 kg baby girl, Jesslynn.

Honours

* Danish Championship: **:

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Awards and recognition

*All-Star Playmaker of the Women's 19 European Championship: 2011 * Danish League Top Scorer: 2013, 2014, 2019 *All-Star Left Back of the Danish League: 2019 *MVP of the

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* All Star Best player of the

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: 2011/12 *All-Star Centre Back of the

References

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* * 1992 births Living people Sportspeople from Arnhem Dutch female handball players Dutch expatriate handball players Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for the Netherlands Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Dutch expatriate handball players in Denmark Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate handball players in Romania 21st-century Dutch sportswomen Team Esbjerg players SønderjyskE Håndbold players {{Netherlands-handball-bio-stub