Jelena Popović
Serbian handball player (born 1984)
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Jelena Popović (born 4 September 1984) is a Serbian handballer who plays for the French club Nantes Handball and the Serbian national team.
Born
9 April 1984
Karlovac, SFR Yugoslavia
Karlovac, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality
Serbian
Height
1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position
Right back
| Jelena Popović | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born |
9 April 1984 Karlovac, SFR Yugoslavia | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Serbian | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Right back | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Nantes Handball | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Number | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
– | Serbia | 112[1] | (182) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Club career
Jelena played for the RK Medicinar Šabac, HC Naisa Niš, Kometal Gjorče Petrov Skopje, ŽRK Zaječar, ES Besançon and currently she is a member of the French team Nantes Handball.
National team
Popović represented Serbia and Montenegro at the 2005 Mediterranean Games and won a silver medal. She played for the Serbian national team at the 2012 European Handball Championship when the team finished 4th.