Statistics for Handball World Player of the Year

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Year	Position	Country	Winner	% Correct
2015	Left back	Denmark	Mikkel Hansen	100%
2018	Left back	Denmark	Mikkel Hansen	100%
2011	Left back	Denmark	Mikkel Hansen	100%
2007	Centre back	France	Nikola Karabatić	100%
2016	Centre back	France	Nikola Karabatić	100%
2014	Centre back	France	Nikola Karabatić	100%
2021	Goalkeeper	Denmark	Niklas Landin Jacobsen	91%
2019	Goalkeeper	Denmark	Niklas Landin Jacobsen	91%
2023	Right back	Denmark	Mathias Gidsel	74%
2013	Centre back	Croatia	Domagoj Duvnjak	61%
2008	Goalkeeper	France	Thierry Omeyer	61%
2012	Centre back	France	Daniel Narcisse	48%
2006	Centre back	Croatia	Ivano Balić	48%
2003	Centre back	Croatia	Ivano Balić	48%
1995	Centre back	France	Jackson Richardson	35%
2010	Left back	Czech Republic	Filip Jícha	30%
2005	Goalkeeper	Serbia and Montenegro	Arpad Šterbik	26%
2004	Goalkeeper	Germany	Henning Fritz	13%
1990	Center back	Sweden	Magnus Wislander	13%
1994	Centre back	Russia	Talant Dujshebaev	13%
1996	Centre back	Spain	Talant Dujshebaev	13%
1988	Left back	Yugoslavia	Veselin Vujović	13%
2002	Line player	France	Bertrand Gille	9%
2000	Line player	FR Yugoslavia	Dragan Škrbić	9%
2009	Goalkeeper	Poland	Sławomir Szmal	9%
1998	Left back	Germany	Daniel Stephan	4%
2001	Right back	South Korea	Yoon Kyung-Shin	4%
1989	Right back	South Korea	Kang Jae-Won	0%
1999	Left wing	Spain	Rafael Guijosa	0%
1997	Right back	France	Stéphane Stoecklin	0%