Natalija Todorovska
Natalija Todorovska, née Natalia Malakhova[1] (born 7 July 1974) is a Russian and then Macedonian handball player.
After playing many years for the Volgograd Akva,[1] she went to the Macedonian Champions club Kometal Gjorče Petrov Skopje in 2001.
Awarded as the best right wing of the 1997 World Championship with Russia, she lately played for the Macedonian team. At the 2005 World Championship, she scored 21 goals against Cameroon[2] and at the 2008 European Women's Handball Championship she finished the fifth top goalscorer.
On 24 March 2009, Natalija Todorovska was awarded the Medal for Service to the Country by the president of the Republic of Macedonia for acknowledgement of her sport achievements and her contribution to developing and popularizing sport in Macedonia as well as promoting the country abroad.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "EHF profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ "2005 World Championship - Match report Cameroon-Macedonia" (PDF). European Handball Federation. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ MIA Archived 2009-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
- 1974 births
- Living people
- Russian female handball players
- Macedonian female handball players
- RK Podravka Koprivnica players
- Russian emigrants to North Macedonia
- Naturalized citizens of North Macedonia
- Naturalised handball players
- Russian expatriate sportspeople in North Macedonia
- Russian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
- Russian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia
- Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
- Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia
- Expatriate handball players in North Macedonia
- Sportspeople from Volgograd Oblast
- Expatriate handball players in Croatia
- Expatriate handball players in Serbia
- Macedonian handball biography stubs