The French handball star Nikola Karabatic has been named the best handball player in the world of the past decade, while the captain of the Macedonian national team Kiril Lazarov has been named the best right back of the decade in the selection of the renowned “Handball Planet”.

Serbian-born French captain Nikola Karabatic won the world handball player of the decade, winning the most votes from a 21-member jury made up of coaches, handball legends and journalists.

The captain of the Macedonian national team Kiril Lazarov has been named the right back of the decade, winning 34 votes, nine more than the former Hungarian national team player Laszlo Nagy, while the third place with ten points went to the Kielce handball player, Alex Dujshebaev.