Adrián Sipos
{{short description|Hungarian handball player (born 1990)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Hungarian name|Sipos Adrián}}
{{Infobox handball biography
| name = Adrián Sipos
| image = 2024-02-22 Handball Bundesliga TVB Stuttgart - MT Melsungen by mroptimax-26.jpg
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|3|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = Szombathely, Hungary
| nationality = Hungarian
| height = {{height|m=1.98|precision=0}}
| position = Line Player
| currentclub = MT Melsungen
| clubnumber = 8
| youthyears1 = 2005–2008
| youthclubs1 = Szombathelyi Tanárképző SE
| youthyears2 = 2008–2010
| youthclubs2 = MKB Veszprém
| years1 = 2010–2013
| clubs1 = CSM Bacău
| years2 = 2013–2016
| clubs2 = HC Odorheiu Secuiesc
| years3 = 2016–2021
| clubs3 = Tatabánya KC
| years4 = 2021–2023
| clubs4 = Telekom Veszprém
| years5 = 2023–
| clubs5 = MT Melsungen
| nationalyears1 = 2018–
| nationalteam1 = Hungary
| nationalcaps1 = 98
| nationalgoals1 = 45
}}
Adrián Sipos (born 8 March 1990) is a Hungarian handball player for MT Melsungen and the Hungarian national team.
Career
=Club=
Adrián Sipos started playing at the NB II Szombathelyi Tanárképző SE. He spent almost four years in the association in Szombathely, from where he joined the leading club of the country, MKB Veszprém, with a big leap in 2008, led by the former federal captain Sándor Kaló, a legend from Veszprém, who condemned him immediately after the trial. he spent two years there. As he was not interested in the twenty-year-old player at home in a leading club he would have liked to go to, he moved to Romania, where he played in the first division for three and a half years in the strong middle team CSM Bacău, then two and a half in Székelyudvarhelyi KC. The former won two championship silver medals and made his debut in the EHF Cup, and the latter won the third place in 2015 after beating British Cambridge HC, Luxembourg's Red Boys Differdange, Ukraine's ZTR Zaporizhia, Portugal's Benfica and ABC Braga in the final, European Cup series, the Challenge Cup. He returned to Hungary in 2016 and became a player of NB I Grundfos Tatabánya KC. In 2019, he was voted the best Hungarian defensive player by the Hungarian Handball Association.{{Cite web|url=http://www.nemzetisport.hu/kezilabda/kezilabda-schatzl-nadine-es-banhidi-2019-legjobbjai-2746933|title=Kézilabda: Schatzl Nadine és Bánhidi 2019 legjobbjai - NSO|date=10 February 2020}} In April 2020, Grundfos Tatabánya KC announced that it had extended its contract until 2023.{{Cite web|url=https://www.kemma.hu/sport/helyi-sport/sipos-es-gyori-is-a-kek-tigriseket-fogja-erositeni-a-kovetkezo-szezonban-2315559/|title=Sipos és Győri is a Kék Tigriseket fogja erősíteni a következő szezonban|access-date=2020-08-19|archive-date=2021-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210117094521/https://www.kemma.hu/sport/helyi-sport/sipos-es-gyori-is-a-kek-tigriseket-fogja-erositeni-a-kovetkezo-szezonban-2315559/|url-status=dead}} He did not fulfill his contract: in the summer of 2021 he signed a 2-year contract with the Telekom Veszprém team.{{Cite web|url=https://handballveszprem.hu/hu/article/sipos-adriannal-a-magyar-valogatott-beallojaval-ket-eves-szerzodest-kotottunk_6035|title = Sipos Adriánnal, a magyar válogatott beállójával két éves szerződést kötöttünk - Telekom Veszprém}}
=National team=
He was noticed by the national team after he returned to Hungary in 2016. Xavi Sabaté, who led the Hungarian national ensemble in 2016 and 2017, invited him to the cohesion in December 2016, which did not turn out well because his ankles went out during the first training session. Ljubomir Vranjes first made it into the adult national team{{Cite web|url=http://www.nemzetisport.hu/kezilabda/vranjes-behivta-a-valogatott-keretebe-remekul-erzi-magat-2627993|title = Vranjes behívta a válogatott keretébe, remekül érzi magát - NSO|date = 4 April 2018}} and made his debut against Austria in April 2018 in the team preparing for the World Cup qualifier against Slovenia. He represented Hungary at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship,{{cite web|url=https://competition.ihf.info/sites/default/files/competitions/226654de-f6a5-40ac-bc6c-bfdbfd5f8b28/pdf/HUN.PDF |title=26th Men's World Championship 2019 – Hungary |website=competition.ihf.info |accessdate=28 January 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://keziszovetseg.hu/v2h/005/003/p_003.asp?p_hir_kod=9&p_hir_kod_ev=2019&p_fo_cim=Fokuszban%20az%20olimpia|title=Fókuszban az olimpia|date=8 January 2019|work=keziszovetseg.hu}} 2020 European Men's Handball Championship and 2021 World Championship (5th place, 6 matches / 3 goals).
Honours
=Club=
;CSM Bacău
- Liga Națională
- {{silver medal}}: 2012, 2013
;Székelyudvarhelyi KC
- EHF Challenge Cup
- {{gold medal}}: 2015
;Grundfos Tatabánya KC
- Nemzeti Bajnokság I
- {{bronze medal}}: 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
- Magyar Kupa
- {{bronze medal}}: 2017
;Telekom Veszprém
- Nemzeti Bajnokság I
- {{gold medal}}: 2023
- Magyar Kupa
- {{gold medal}}: 2022, 2023
- SEHA League
- {{gold medal}}: 2021, 2022
;MT Melsungen
=Individual=
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- {{Sports links}}
{{Hungary squad 2019 World Men's Handball Championship}}
{{Hungary squad 2020 European Men's Handball Championship}}
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Category:Hungarian male handball players
Category:Sportspeople from Szombathely
Category:Hungarian expatriate handball players in Germany
Category:Hungarian expatriate handball players in Romania
Category:Olympic handball players for Hungary