Marija Jovanović (born 26 December 1985) is a retired Montenegrin
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. She played for the
Montenegrin national team.
She competed at the
2010 European Women's Handball Championship, where the Montenegrin team placed sixth, and Jovanović was listed among the top ten goalscorers of the tournament (scoring 31 goals).
As captain, she led the Montenegrin national team when they won a gold medal at the European Championship in Serbia. After two years spent at the Ferencvárosi, she decided to end her career and graduated in Business Economics in 2018. She has been in private business ever since.
Honours
;Club
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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 ...
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**''Semifinalist'': 2011, 2012, 2013
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EHF Cup Winners' Cup:
**''Winner'': 2006 and 2010
*Women's Regional Handball League:
**''Winner'': 2010 and 2011
**''Silver Medallist'': 2009
*Montenegrin Championship:
**''Winner'': 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
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Romanian Championship:
**''Winner'': 2012, 2013
*Montenegrin Cup:
**''Winner'': 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011
*Romanian Supercup:
**''Winner'': 2011
;National team
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European Handball Championship:
**''Gold Medallist'': 2012
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Olympics:
**''Silver Medallist'': 2012
References
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1985 births
Living people
Handball players from Podgorica
Montenegrin female handball players
21st-century Montenegrin sportswomen
Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic handball players for Montenegro
Olympic medalists in handball
Olympic silver medalists for Montenegro
Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Russia
SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea (handball) players
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Mediterranean Games medalists in handball
Mediterranean Games bronze medalists for Montenegro
Handball players at the 2009 Mediterranean Games
Montenegrin expatriate sportspeople in Hungary
Serbia and Montenegro female handball players
Montenegrin expatriate handball players in Romania
Expatriate handball players in Russia
Montenegrin expatriate handball players in Hungary
Montenegrin expatriate handball players in France