For the second successive year Mathias Gidsel has been voted Best Handball Player in the World by Handball-Planet.
Mathias Gidsel, got the highest number of points based on cumulative votes of 10 members of the international jury of handball journalists and visitors of the Handball-Planet website for the second year in a row.
It is only the second time that a player has received the award two years in a row. Most recently, it was Nikola Karabatic who got it in 2014 and 2015.
The Top five in the vote was all made out by Danish players:
Mathias Gidsel – 41 point
Emil Nielsen – 36 point
Simon Pytlick – 29 point
Emil Jakobsen – 29 point
Magnus Saugstrup – 27 point