Michał Jurecki (born 27 October 1984) is a Polish retired

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.

Private life

His older brother Bartosz Jurecki is a former handball player and current manager. In 2007 Michał married to Joanna. They have daughter Oliwia, born on 6 September 2007. In 2015 his wife gave birth to their second daughter named Julia.

Career

He received a silver medal with the Polish team at the

2007 World Men's Handball Championship The 2007 World Men's Handball Championship was the 20th edition of the tournament that took place from 19 January to 4 February 2007 in Germany. 24 national teams played in 12 German cities. It was the 20th edition of the World Championship in t ...

and a bronze medal in

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

and in

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 ...

. He participated at the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

, where Poland finished fifth and at the

2016 Summer 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 ...

where Poland took fourth place. At the 2016 European Championship he was awarded All Star Left back of the tournament.

Achievements

;PGE Vive Kielce *

Polish Superliga The Polish Superliga, officially known as the Orlen Superliga due to its sponsorship by Orlen, is the top men's handball league in Poland. It is currently a 14 teams league, played from September to May. The competition was founded in 1956 under ...

: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2018–19 *Cup of Poland: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 *

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 ...

: 2015–16

Individual

* 2016

European Championship A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

- All-Star Left back

State awards

* 2007 Gold Cross of Merit * 2015 POL Polonia Restituta Kawalerski BAR

Knight's Cross of Polonia Restituta

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jurecki, Michał 1984 births Living people People from Kościan Handball players from Greater Poland Voivodeship Polish male handball players Olympic handball players for Poland Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Vive Kielce players Handball-Bundesliga players Polish expatriate handball players in Germany TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke players SG Flensburg-Handewitt players 21st-century Polish sportsmen