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The national women´s handball team of Hungary have deep seated roots; not only looking at the foundations of the sport in which Hungary has played a decisive role its the development.

But moreover the significant results of the team can be traced back over several decades with a world championship title of the women´s national team in 1949 in Budapest and in 1965 in Germany, as well as the European championship title in 2000.

The Hungarian women´s national team is among three nations that not only participate in all senior European Championships, but finish always in the top 10. The last medal (bronze) taken by the team in 2005 at the WC in Russia brought the medal count of the team to seven.

Among its glories the team has won three Olympic medals: silver medal in 2000 in Sydney and bronze medal at Montreal in 1976 and again at the 1996 Atlanta Games. With a European Gold and 2 bronze medals, the Hungarian national team has proven its mettle over time as one of the finest women´s handball teams in the history of the sport.

With retuning talents such as Anita Bulath and Katalin Toth and based on past performance, the Hungarian team coming through to the main round is pretty much a certainty.

However, looking at the results of the past four years, some might say that the star of the Hungarian national women´s team has been fading. Generational changes and health issues among the team have made the preparatory phase difficult - but the Hungarian national team are not out of this particular race.

Hungary won their Qualification Group 2, defeating Sweden, the Czech Republic and Azerbaijan.

Born on Valentine´s Day, Eszter Mátéfi played over 50 international matches for the national team of Hungary and in the process achieved World Championship silver and Olympic bronze playing all 5 matches and scoring 35 goals; prior to that she made over 130 appearances for the Romanian national team.

Before moving into the realm of coaching, Mátéfi´s illustrious club handball career spanned 19 years. Having started out playing professionally for Tirgu Mures in Romania for 12 years, she moved to Debrecen where she spent a season before heading to Gyõr for four seasons.

Nevertheless, it was her time at the famous Dunaferr that resulted in a Champions League (1999) and EHF Cup (1998) titles. Not entirely removed from the club scene, Mátéfi has been coaching Békéscsabai NKSE since 2007.

After serving as the assistant coach for just under a year, in 2009 Vilmos Imre stepped down and Mátéfi took the team to the World Championship in China.  This time she brings her team to Denmark/Norway determined to improve on the last result.

Hungarian Handball Federation Website: www.handballnet.hu