Joana Bolling

Joana Bolling
Personal information
Born (1995-04-06) 6 April 1995 (age 29)[1]
Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina[2]
Nationality Argentine
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Playing position Left wing[1]
Club information
Current club Aula Cultural
Number 20
Senior clubs
Years Team
0000–2018
 Vilo handball
2018–2020
 Aula Cultural[3]
2020–
 Elche Mustang[4]
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
 Argentina 27 (42)
Medal record
South and Central American Championship
Silver medal – second place 2022 Argentina

Joana Bolling (born 6 April 1995) is an Argentine handball player who plays as a left wing for Spanish club Elche Mustang and the Argentina women's national team.

She was selected to represent Argentina at the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship.

Bolling has grown up in La Punta, San Luis Province.[5] In 2016, she donated one of her kidneys to her father, former basketball player Elnes Bolling, who is originally from the United States Virgin Islands and has developed most of his playing career in Argentina.[6] Her mother is of Italian descent.[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Player Details". IHF. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  2. ^ "La Selección Argentina de Handball entrenó en Concepción del Uruguay". El Entre Ríos (in Spanish). 10 October 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  3. ^ "La argentina Joana Bolling, nuevo fichaje del Aula". El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). 19 June 2018. Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  4. ^ "La internacional argentina Joana Bolling, primer fichaje del CBM Elche" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 8 May 2020. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
  5. ^ Ysaguirre, Catalina (16 June 2014). "San Luis tiene representante en el seleccionado juvenil de hándbol". Agencia San Luis (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 December 2019.
  6. ^ "De hija a padre: un gesto de amor para Elnes Bolling" (in Spanish). 31 March 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  7. ^ "El riñón que Elnes Bolling recibió de su hija empezó a funcionar". El Diario de la República (in Spanish). 7 April 2016. Retrieved 3 December 2019.