Goran Šprem (born 6 July 1979) is a Croatian former handball player.

Goran Šprem
Personal information
Born (1979-07-06) 6 July 1979 (age 45)
Dubrovnik, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Croatian
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Left wing
Senior clubs
Years Team
1996-2001
Badel 1862 Zagreb
2001-2002
Medveščak Infosistem
2002-2004
RK Zagreb
2004-2005
SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2005
TuS Nettelstedt-Lübbecke
2005-2006
SG Flensburg-Handewitt
2006
MT Melsungen
2006-2009
HSG Nordhorn
2009-2011
Croatia Osiguranje Zagreb
2011-2013
VfL Gummersbach
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1999-2009
Croatia 109 (277)
Medal record
Representing  Croatia
Men's Handball
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team
World Championship
Gold medal – first place 2003 Portugal Team
Silver medal – second place 2005 Tunisia Team
Silver medal – second place 2009 Croatia Team
Statoil World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2006 Sweden & Germany Team
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 2001 Tunis Team

Šprem started his professional career with RK Zagreb in the late 1990s. He also spent a season with RK Medveščak Zagreb in 2001 and 2002, before returning to RK Zagreb for a second spell with the club between 2002 and 2004. He eventually left RK Zagreb for German side SG Flensburg-Handewitt in October 2004. He left Flensburg for a short spell with TuS Nettelstedt in February 2005, returning to the club in the summer of the same year and eventually spending a season with them. In the summer of 2006, he left Flensburg for a short spell with MT Melsungen, before joining his current club, HSG Nordhorn, in November 2006. He left Nordhorn in 2009.

Šprem is also a member of the Croatian national handball team, with whom he won gold medals at the 2003 World Men's Handball Championship and the 2004 Summer Olympics.[1] He also won two silver medals with the Croatian national team at the World Men's Handball Championships in 2005 and 2009, and participated at the 2006 European Men's Handball Championship, where Croatia finished fourth.

Since his retirement he's been a pundit on RTL Televizija.[2]

Honours

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Zagreb
SG Flensburg-Handewitt
HSG Nordhorn
Individual

Orders

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References

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  1. ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 2008-04-07 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on February 1, 2008)
  2. ^ "2016 European Championship in one week". Vijesti.hr (in Croatian). Archived from the original on 2019-03-27. Retrieved 2017-01-23.
  3. ^ "President Mesić gives commendation" (in Croatian). Večernji list.
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