Lazar Kukić

{{short description|Serbian handball player (born 1995)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}

{{Infobox handball biography

| name = Lazar Kukić

| image = Lazar Kukić.jpg

| image_size = 225px

| caption = Kukić in 2020

| full_name = Lazar Kukić

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1995|12|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Belgrade, Serbia, FR Yugoslavia

| nationality = Serbian

| height = 1.88 m

| position = Centre back

| currentclub = OTP Bank-Pick Szeged

| clubnumber = 34

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = RK Partizan

| years1 = 2013–2016

| clubs1 = RK Partizan

| years2 = 2017–2020

| clubs2 = BM Logroño La Rioja

| years3 = 2020–2022

| clubs3 = S.L. Benfica

| years4 = 2022–2024

| clubs4 = Dinamo București

| years5 = 2024–

| clubs5 = OTP Bank-Pick Szeged

| nationalyears1 = 2016–

| nationalteam1 = Serbia

| nationalcaps1 = 39

| nationalgoals1 = 92

| ntupdate = 14 September 2024

}}

Lazar Kukić ({{Lang-sr-Cyrl|Лазар Кукић}}; born 12 December 1995) is a Serbian handball player who plays for OTP Bank-Pick Szeged and the Serbia national team.

Career

After coming through the youth system at Partizan, Kukić was promoted to the first team in the 2013–14 season.{{Cite web | url=https://www.b92.net/sport/rukomet/vesti.php?yyyy=2013&mm=11&dd=09&nav_id=775502 | title=Partizanovi debitanti spremni | language=Serbian | publisher=b92.net | date=9 November 2013 | access-date=22 July 2020}} He signed with Spanish club BM Logroño La Rioja in early 2017.

A Serbia international since 2016,{{Cite web | url=https://www.b92.net/sport/rukomet/vesti.php?yyyy=2016&mm=10&dd=24&nav_id=1191750 | title=Cvetković objavio spisak za kvalifikacije EP 2018 | language=Serbian | publisher=b92.net | date=24 October 2016 | access-date=22 July 2020}} Kukić participated at the 2019 World Men's Handball Championship and 2020 European Men's Handball Championship.

Honours

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