Dragan Pechmalbec

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Dragan Pechmalbec

Personal information
Nationality	French/Serbian
Born	(1996-01-05) 5 January 1996 (age 30) Cahors, France
Height	1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Sport
Sport	Handball
Position	Pivot
Current club	ONE Veszprém
Number	46
Youth career
Years	Team
2009–2016	CPB Rennes
Senior clubs
Years	Team
2016–2022	HBC Nantes
2022–	ONE Veszprém
National team Years Team Apps (Gls) 2018 France 3 (0) 2021– Serbia 23 (66)

Dragan Pechmalbec (born 5 January 1996) is a French-born Serbian handball player for ONE Veszprém and the Serbia national team.

He has a French father and a Serbian mother.

Career

Pechmalbec began his career in his birth country, France. He shot to prominence with HBC Nantes, where he won the Coupe de France in 2017, in a victory in the final over Montpellier Handball. He was also a runner-up three times in the French top division, and once in the 2017–18 EHF Champions League. Despite making his debut for France, he declared for the Serbia national team in 2021, making his debut for them that year. He has played for Serbia at the 2023 World Men's Handball Championship and the 2024 European Men's Handball Championship.

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