Ramune Pekarskyte

Ramune Pekarskyte
Personal information
Born (1980-10-05) 5 October 1980
Pasvalys, Lithuania
Nationality Lithuanian / Icelandic
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current club Haukar
Number 13
Senior clubs
Years Team
2003-2010 Haukar
2010-2013 Levanger Handball
2013-2014 SönderjyskE
2014-2015 Le Havre AC
2015-2017 Haukar
2017-2018 Stjarnan
2018-present Haukar
National team 1
Years Team
1996-2009 Lithuania
2012- Iceland 38[1] (103)
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 25 February 2017

Ramune Pekarskyte (born 5 October 1980) is a Lithuanian-Icelandic handball player for Haukar of Úrvalsdeild kvenna, and the Icelandic national team.[2] Although born in Lithuania, she gained Icelandic citizenship on 14 June 2012[3][4] and has been available for the Icelandic team since then.[5]

Career

Pekarskyte played for Haukar from 2003 to 2010 when she joined Levanger Handball.[6] In April 2013, she signed with SönderjyskE in Denmark.[7] In 2014, Pekarskyte signed with Le Havre AC of the French championship league.[8] In 2015 she signed back with Haukar in the Icelandic Úrvalsdeild kvenna, where she played until 2017 when she signed with Stjarnan.[6] For the 2017–18 season, she led Stjarnan with 109 goals 19 games.[9]

In August 2018, Pekarskyte signed back with Haukar.[9]

References

  1. ↑ "A landslið kvenna". hsi.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  2. ↑ "Ramune Pekarskyte". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 4 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "Lög nr. 65 25. júní 2012" (in Icelandic). Alþingi. 25 June 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "Pekarskyte íslenskur ríkisborgari". RÚV (in Icelandic). 11 June 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  5. ↑
  6. 1 2 "Ramune til Stjörnunnar". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 10 August 2017. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  7. ↑ "Ramune þriðji Íslendingurinn hjá SønderjyskE". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). 25 April 2013. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  8. ↑ Ívar Benediktsson (29 May 2014). "Ramune flytur frá Danmörku til Le Havre í Frakklandi". Morgunblaðið (in Icelandic). Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  9. 1 2 Arnar Geir Halldórsson (16 August 2018). "Ramune Pekarskyta snýr aftur í Hauka". Vísir.is (in Icelandic). Retrieved 16 August 2018.
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