After over three weeks of extraordinary democratic, the Global Handball Alliance (IHF) can uncover the victors of the four 2023 IHF World Player of the Year grants.
2023 denoted the arrival of the standard IHF Male World Player of the Year and IHF Female World Player of the Year grants, while two new prizes, the IHF Youthful Male World Player of the Year and the IHF Youthful Female Player of the Year, which underline the propensity for distinguishing and supporting new abilities, have been presented.
Throughout the past months, the Worldwide Handball Organization have updated the design of the prize, which was recently concluded by a fan vote, with the last versions seeing five players clash for the sought after prize in every classification.
The fans actually had the power, as the votes projected addressed 33% of the last standings. One more third was held to the mentors which drove their public groups at the IHF Men's Big showdown and the IHF Ladies' Big showdown. The IHF Commission of Instructing and Strategies (CCM) had the last third of the choice, with the honors being fixed by the player who has the best rate all through the three classes.
In the IHF Male Player of the Year grant, Mathias Gidsel enjoyed a mind-boggling benefit in two of the classifications, getting the honor in front of Ludovic Fabregas.
A similar situation occurred for the IHF Female Player of the Year, with Henny Reistad winning 66% of the vote, jumping Estelle Nze Minko.
Agreement was arrived at on account of the IHF Youthful Female Player of the Year, where Lena Grandveau got the huge prize, while Elias Ellefsen á Skipagøtu won the IHF Youthful Male Player of the Year in front of Juri Knorr.
2023 IHF Male Player of the Year - Mathias Gidsel (Denmark/Füchse Berlin)
The 25-year-old right back finishes his prize bureau with one more individual honor, subsequent to conveying a few phenomenal exhibitions since his development in the Denmark men's public group in 2020. In his most memorable significant global rivalry, the 2021 IHF Men's Big showdown, Gidsel was named the Elite player right back, helping his side secure the gold decoration.
Yet again he followed that exhibition with a MVP title at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, as well as turning into the MVP and the top objective scorer at the 2023 IHF Men's Big showdown, where he came out on top for the championship, being one of the central members of the group which made a phenomenal dash of 30 continuous unbeaten matches.
At club level, Gidsel had an incredible presentation at Füchse Berlin, winning the EHF European Association Men with the German force to be reckoned with, as well as completing second at the 2023 IHF Men's Super Globe, yielding a difficult misfortune after extra-time against individual German side, SC Magdeburg.
Gidsel turns out to be just the third Danish player to get the sought after grant, after Mikkel Hansen won it multiple times, in 2011, 2015 and 2018, while Niklas Landin won it twice, in 2019 and 2021. Additionally, this is the fourth sequential IHF Male Player of the Year grant won by Danish players and the fifth in the beyond six versions, with their control split by Nikola Karabatic in 2016.
2023 IHF Female Player of the Year - Henny Reistad (Norway/Group Esbjerg)
Since making her presentation for Norway ladies' senior public group in 2018, Reistad has become perhaps of the most reliable player on the planet, having proactively made the last of the IHF Ladies' Big showdown two times, at Spain 2021, when she won the gold award, and at Denmark/Norway/Sweden 2023, when she protected the silver with Norway.
In the wake of being named the Top pick left back at Spain 2021, Reistad went above and beyond at Denmark/Norway/Sweden 2023 and secured the MVP grant, for certain staggering exhibitions, remembering one of the best individual presentations for the historical backdrop of the world handball lead rivalry, with 15 objectives in the semi-last against Denmark, won by Norway in extra-time.
Reistad was additionally the second best scorer in the opposition, with 52 objectives, and has the third best typical number of objectives per game scored for the Norway ladies' public group, with more than four objectives scored per match. At club level, Reistad was likewise the top scorer of the 2022/23 time of the EHF Champions Association Ladies, with 142 objectives for Group Esbjerg, completing fourth in the top European club contest.
The left back is additionally the seventh Norwegian player to get the honor, after Ternary Haltvik, Cecilie Leganger, Gro Hammerseng, Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth, Heidi Loke and Stine Bredal Oftedal, and the principal Norwegian player to secure the honor starting around 2019.
2023 IHF Youthful Male Player of the Year - Elias Ellefsen á Skipagøtu (Faroe Islands/THW Kiel)
The fleeting rising of the Faroe Islands, which got their best-at any point brings about history at the IHF Men's Lesser Big showdown and at the IHF Men's Childhood Big showdown in 2023 has been factual and Elias Ellefsen á Skipagøtu assumed a colossal part in those exhibitions, straightforwardly and in a roundabout way.
Straightforwardly, the 21-year-old focus back was chosen in the Top pick group on his situation and was the joint top scorer at the 2023 IHF Men's Lesser Big showdown, with 55 objectives. He was likewise by a wide margin the player with the biggest number of helps, 48, having an immediate hand in 93 of his group's objectives.
By implication, Elias Ellefsen á Skipagøtu has been a genuine model for more youthful players in the Faroe Islands, being an icon for the majority of the people who are beginning their experience in handball, motivating a little country of 54,000 individuals with a lady capability at the EHF EURO in 2024.
Besides, Elias Ellefsen á Skipagøtu was the subject of a tremendous exchange the previous summer at THW Kiel, as the German force to be reckoned with distinguished his true capacity and opened him into the beginning seven, with extraordinary matches both in the German Bundesliga and in the EHF Champions Association Men.
2023 IHF Youthful Female Player of the Year - Lena Grandveau (France/Neptunes de Nantes)
Grandveau was to a great extent promoted as the following large thing to come from France's pipeline of capable youthful players and her true capacity was likewise displayed in 2022, when she was the beginning community back of the group which participated in the 2022 IHF Ladies' Lesser Big showdown. Yet, 2023 flagged the beginning of something new and new for Grandveau, making the enormous step towards the senior public group.
In addition to the fact that Grandveau made her presentation at the IHF Ladies' Big showdown, she likewise assisted France with bringing home the championship, being instrumental in a few matches, yet particularly in the last against Norway, where she scored five objectives, being her side's top scorer in the match, while likewise coming out on top for the main significant championship in her vocation.
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