Erzsébet Kocsis | |
Full Name: | Erzsébet Sáriné Kocsis |
Birth Date: | 11 March 1965 |
Birth Place: | Győr, Hungary |
Nationality: | Hungarian |
Height: | 1.70NaN0 |
Years1: | 1982–1989 |
Clubs1: | Győri Richards |
Years2: | 1989–1999 |
Clubs2: | Dunaújváros |
Years3: | 1999–2000 |
Clubs3: | Kiskőrösi KC |
Years4: | 2009 |
Clubs4: | Dunaújváros |
Nationalyears1: | 1986–1996 |
Nationalteam1: | Hungary |
Nationalcaps1: | 125 |
Nationalgoals1: | 328 |
Erzsébet Kocsis (born 11 March 1965)[1] is a Hungarian former handball player and the current technical director of Dunaújvárosi NKS. She was voted IHF World Player of the Year in 1995 by the International Handball Federation.[2]
She won 125 caps for the Hungarian national team between 1986 and 1996,[3] and received a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 1995 World Championship.
At club level, she won all three major continental titles with Dunaújváros. First in 1995 the EHF Cup Winners' Cup,[4] four years later the EHF Cup, and in 1999 the EHF Champions League. She gave up professional handball in 2000, however, following her former team lost most of their players due to financial problems, she returned into action in 2009, helping Dunaújváros to avoid relegation.[5]
She is married to Árpád Sári, a former handballer. Their daughter, Barbara Sári is also a professional handball player.