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Elizabeth Omoregie
Personal information
Born (1996-12-29) 29 December 1996 (age 27)
Athens, Greece
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Centre back
Club information
Current club CSM București
Number 17
Senior clubs
Years Team
2014–2018
RK Krim
2018–
CSM București
National team
Years Team
2015–2017
Bulgaria
2019–
Slovenia 7 (24)

Elizabeth Omoregie (born 29 December 1996) is a female handball player for CSM București and the Slovenian national team.[1]

Omoregie was born and raised in Athens, Greece to a Nigerian father and Bulgarian mother. She was one of four children in the family, which moved to Pleven in Bulgaria, where she went to school.[2]

In October 2017, it was announced that Omoregie obtained Slovenian citizenship and that she will play for the Slovenian national team.[3]

On 27 April 2018, it was announced that she had signed with the Romanian team CSM București from the summer of the same year.[4]

She represented Slovenia at the 2020 and the 2022 European Women's Handball Championship.[5][6]

Elizabeth presented her national team Slovenia at the Paris Olympics 2024.

Awards and honors

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National
  • Romanian Cup:
    • Winner: 2019, 2022
  • Romanian League:
    • Runner-up: 2019
  • Romanian Supercup:
    • Runner-up: 2018, 2021
  • Slovenian League:
    • Winner: 2015, 2017, 2018
  • Slovenian Cup:
    • Winner: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
  • Slovenian Supercup:
    • Winner: 2015, 2016, 2017
Continental
Other
  • Handball-Planet.com Young World Playmaker of the Season: 2017,[7] 2018[8]

References

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  1. ^ EHF profile
  2. ^ "Omoregie, a Bulgarian handball pearl shining for Krim". European Handball Federation. 23 November 2016.
  3. ^ "Elizabeth Omoregie bo poskušala Slovenijo popeljati v Tokio". RTV Slovenija. 30 October 2017.
  4. ^ "CSM București a făcut un transfer de senzaţie pentru a o înlocui pe Bella Gullden" (in Romanian). Prosport. 27 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Priprave ženske reprezentance se nadaljujejo z 19 igralkami". rokometna-zveza.si. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  6. ^ "2020 European Women's Handball Championship Roster" (PDF). livecache.sportresult.com. 3 December 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 March 2021. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  7. ^ YOUNG FEMALE WORLD HANDBALL LINE-UP 2016/2017
  8. ^ Young Female World's Best 7 2017/2018
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