Ausra fridrikas biography

Lithuanian-Austrian handball player (born )

Ausra Fridrikas (born Lithuanian: Aušra Miklušytė; formerly Ziukiene; 30 April in Lithuania) is a Lithuanian–Austrian handball player and World champion from She first played for Soviet Union, later for Lithuania and finally for Austria. She was voted World Handball Player of the Year ^[1] by the International Handball Federation. She was selected most valuable player at the World championship, where she participated on the Austrian team and received a bronze medal.

With goals she is the second most scoring player on the Austrian team ever, only behind Jasna Kolar-Merdan.

She was included in the European Handball Federation Hall of Fame in ^[2]

Personal life

Fridrikas married the Lithuanian international footballer Robertas Fridrikas, and their son Lukas also plays football professionally.^[3]

References

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BIOGRAPHY

Ausra Fridrikas was born in Lithuania in , when the Baltic state was still part of the Soviet Union. Although she only started playing handball at the age of 15 her talent was quickly identified, and she was already playing senior competitions as a year-old. Fridrikas’ career was entirely based in Lithuania until she moved to Spain and then to Austria.

With the Soviet Union, Fridrikas won her only international medal - gold at the IHF Women’s World Championship. She played for Lithuania from the fall of the Soviet Union until , achieving promotion for the new country from the B to A World Championship.

But joining Austrian side Hypo Niederösterreich was to prove pivotal. The club was hugely successful, formed of a number of ‘world talents’, and they won the last two editions of the EHF Champions League forerunner, the Champions Cup, followed by the first two editions of the Champions League. Fridrikas was part of the squad for the last Champions Cup win and followed it up with four Champions League titles with Hypo.

As she was playing in Austria, Fridrikas and several of her Hypo teammates took Austrian citizenship and formed Austria’s best-ever women’s team. They won bronze at the EHF EURO and again at the World Championship. Fridrikas was named MVP and best lef