The Most Famous
HANDBALL PLAYERS from Latvia
This page contains a list of the greatest Latvian Handball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 304 Handball Players, 2 of which were born in Latvia. This makes Latvia the birth place of the 25th most number of Handball Players behind Martinique and Guadeloupe.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Latvian Handball Players of all time. This list of famous Latvian Handball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Dainis Krištopāns (1990 - )
With an HPI of 35.02, Dainis Krištopāns is the most famous Latvian Handball Player. Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.
Dainis Krištopāns (born 27 September 1990) is a Latvian professional handball player for MT Melsungen and the Latvian national team. He is one of the tallest handball players in the world with 215 cm. His weight is 135 kg. He represented Latvia at the 2020 European Men's Handball Championship.
2. Alexander Petersson (1980 - )
With an HPI of 31.08, Alexander Petersson is the 2nd most famous Latvian Handball Player. Her biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Alexander Petersson (born Aleksandrs Pētersons 2 July 1980) is a Latvian-born Icelandic handball player for Valur. He was a member of the Icelandic national team from 2005 to 2021, appearing in 186 games. Alexander was voted the Icelandic Sportsperson of the Year in 2010 by the Icelandic Sport Press Association. He is of Latvian and Baltic German origin.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as handball players born between 1980 and 1990. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living handball players include Dainis Krištopāns and Alexander Petersson.
