Nikola Portner (born 19 November 1993) is a Swiss

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

SC Magdeburg The SC Magdeburg is a professional handball club from Magdeburg, Germany. The team plays in the highest German league, the Handball-Bundesliga and regularly in highest international competitions. They won the EHF Champions League in 1978, 1981, ...

and the Swiss national team. In April 2024 while playing for Magdeburg, Portner was tested positive for

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prior to league match against Füchse Berlin. He denied allegations of deliberate doping, and in June it was ruled that there was not a high enough level of the drug that deliberate use was likely, and he was acquitted of all charges. He represented Switzerland at the

2020 European Men's Handball Championship The 2020 EHF European Men's Handball Championship was the 14th edition of the tournament and the first to feature 24 national teams. It was co-hosted for the first time in three countries – Austria, Norway and Sweden – from 9 to 26 January ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Portner, Nikola 1993 births Living people Swiss male handball players Handball players from Lyon Montpellier Handball players Handball-Bundesliga players SC Magdeburg players Swiss people of Serbian descent Swiss expatriate handball players in Germany Swiss expatriate sportspeople in France Sportspeople from Bern Chambéry Savoie Mont-Blanc Handball players Expatriate handball players in France 21st-century Swiss sportsmen