Máté Lékai
Appearance
Máté Lékai | |||
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Personal information | |||
Born |
Budapest, Hungary | 16 June 1988||
Nationality | Hungarian | ||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
Playing position | Centre back | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | Ferencvárosi TC | ||
Number | 66 | ||
Youth career | |||
Years | Team | ||
2002–2004 | Szentendre KC | ||
Senior clubs | |||
Years | Team | ||
2004–2010 | PLER KC | ||
2010–2012 | SC Pick Szeged | ||
2012–2014 | RK Celje | ||
2014–2022 | Telekom Veszprém | ||
2022– | Ferencvárosi TC | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2009– | Hungary | 182 | (548) |
Máté Lékai (born 16 June 1988) is a Hungarian handball player for Ferencvárosi TC and the Hungarian national team.[1][2]
His first major international tournament was the 2011 World Championship, where Hungary finished seventh.[3] He finished fourth with the national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
He is the son of former high jumper Olga Juha.[4]
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- PLER KC
- Magyar Kupa
- Bronze: 2007
- Pick Szeged
- Nemzeti Bajnokság I
- Magyar Kupa
- Silver: 2012
- RK Celje
- Slovenian First League
- Slovenian Cup
- Gold: 2013, 2014
- Slovenian Supercup
- Gold: 2014
- MKB Veszprém KC
Individual
[edit]- "Teenager's Player of the Year": 2005
- Hungarian Junior Handballer of the Year: 2009[5]
- Silver Cross of the Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary (2012)
- Junior Príma díj (2012)
- Hungarian Handballer of the Year: 2017[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Máté Lékai Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 30 January 2011.
- ^ "valogatott jatekosok rangsora". kezitortenelem.hu. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
- ^ "Magyarok a férfi világbajnokságokon, érmesek" (in Hungarian). Nemzeti Sport Online. Retrieved 31 January 2011.
- ^ "Isten éltesse Juha Olgát!". vasassc.hu. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
- ^ "Ismét Vérten az év játékosa / Magyarország | handball.hu - kézilabda".
- ^ "Az év kézilabdázói 2017-ben | handball.hu - kézilabda".
External links
[edit]- Máté Lékai at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Máté Lékai at the European Handball Federation
- Máté Lékai at Olympedia
- Máté Lékai player profile
- Máté Lékai career statistics at Worldhandball
Categories:
- 1988 births
- Living people
- Hungarian male handball players
- Handball players from Budapest
- Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic handball players for Hungary
- Hungarian expatriate handball players
- Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia
- Veszprém KC players
- SC Pick Szeged players
- Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Expatriate handball players in Slovenia
- 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen
- Hungarian handball biography stubs