Rukometni klub Borac Banjaluka is a team handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 club from Banja Luka

Banja Luka

-History:The name "Banja Luka" was first mentioned in a document dated February 6, 1494, but Banja Luka's history dates back to ancient times. There is a substantial evidence of the Roman presence in the region during the first few centuries A.D., including an old fort "Kastel" in the centre of...

, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...

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It is part of the sports society Borac

Borac Banja Luka

Borac is a sports society with several teams, from the city of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Borac means "Fighter" and the clubs supporters are called Lešinari/Лешинари which means Vultures....

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The handball

Team handball

Handball is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each pass a ball to throw it into the goal of the other team...

 club RK Borac was founded in 1950.

The federal league of Yugoslavia was founded in 1957. The handbal club Borac become its member and since then was competing in this league until the disintegration of SFR Yugoslavia in 1992.

Borac was the champion of SFR Yugoslavia seven times between 1959 and 1981.

The champion of Cup of Yugoslavia was ten times between 1957 and 1992, a year when SFR Yugoslavia split.

Handball club "Borac" was competing in Republic Srpska within Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

RK Borac had been the champion of Republic Srpska four times: 1994, 1995, 1996 and 1997.

In addition, RK Borac Banjaluka had won the Cup of Republic Srpska four times: 1993, 1994, 1996 and 1997. The Cup competition did not take place in 1995 because of war activities.

The following players were crowned the European champions in 1976: Milorad Karalic, Zdravko Radjenovic, Nedeljko Vujinovic, Abas Arslanagic, Dobrivoje Selec, Momir Golic, Nebojsa Popovic, Miro Bjelic, Zoran Ravlic, Boro Golic, Rade Uncanin, Slobodan Vuksa and a coach Pero Janjic

Accomplishments

• European Champions' Cup
  EHF Champions League
  The EHF Champions League is the most important professional club handball competition in Europe . The competition was started in the 1956–57 season, and is administered by the European Handball Federation.The most successful teams are from Germany and Spain...
  
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  • winners: 1975/76
  • runners-up: 1974/75

• EHF Cup
  EHF Cup
  The EHF Cup is an official competition for men's handball clubs of Europe and takes place every year. From 2012/13 it will be merged with EHF Cup Winners' Cup to EHF European Cup....
  
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  • winners: 1990/91

• National Championship of Yugoslavia
  Yugoslav Handball Championship
  The Yugoslav Handball Championship was the highest level of handball competition in Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia, the league was succeeded by the following competitions:...
  
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  • winners: 1959, 1960, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1981

• Yugoslav Handball Cup:
  • winners: 1957, 1958, 1961, 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1979 and 1992

National Cup of Bosnia and Ercegovina: 2011.

Borac is the most successful handball club ever from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Famous players

• Abaz Arslanagic
• Milorad Karalic
  Milorad Karalic
  Milorad Karalić is a Serbian former handball player who competed for Yugoslavia in the 1972 Summer Olympics and in the 1976 Summer Olympics.He was born in Ivanjska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia....
  
  
• Dobrivoje Selec
• Zdravko Radjenovic
• Nenad Popovic
• Zlatan Arnautovic
  Zlatan Arnautovic
  Zlatan Arnautović is a former Yugoslav handball player who competed in the 1980 Summer Olympics and in the 1984 Summer Olympics....
  
  
• Zlatko Saracevic
  Zlatko Saracevic
  Zlatko "Zlatan" Saračević is a Croatian former handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia and in the 1996 Summer Olympics for Croatia.He was born in Banja Luka....
  
  
• Iztok Puc
  Iztok Puc
  Iztok Puc was a Slovenian handball player who was one of the world's top players of the 1980s and 1990s. During his career he has played professionally for RK Borac, RK Zagreb, RK Celje and RD Prule 67 and won a total of 18 domestic trophies. He was also a member of the RK Zagreb squad which won...
  
  
• Patrik Ćavar
  Patrik Cavar
  Patrik Ćavar is a retired Croatian handball player.He played for the Croatia national handball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where Croatia won the gold medal.As of 2009, Ćavar lives in Miami, Florida....
  
  
• Irfan Smajlagić
  Irfan Smajlagic
  Irfan "Pipe" Smajlagić is a Croatian former handball player who competed in the 1988 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia and in the 1996 Summer Olympics for Croatia.He was born in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina....
  
  
• Bozidar Jovic
  Božidar Jovic
  Božidar Jović is a Croatian handball player.He played for the Croatia national handball team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where Croatia won the gold medal.-References:...
  
  
• Aleksandar Knezevic
• Goran Stupar
• Nebojsa Golic
• Mladen Bojinovic
  Mladen Bojinović
  Mladen Bojinović is a Serbian handballplayer playing in the French league club Montpellier HB. He joined the club in 2002, where he came from FC Barcelona...
  
  
• Danijel Saric
• Danijel Saric
• Petar Perovic

Davor Peric
Senjanin Maglajlija
Samir Sarac
Samir Nezirovic
Dragan Markovic
Bozidar Jovic
Mehmedalija Mulabdić
Aco Knezevic
Faruk Halilbegovic