Czech handball (to the letter called national handball in Czech) is an outdoor ball game which was created in 1905 in Prague and up to this date is played. This sport is very similar to the Team handball.

The Czech handball was first mentioned by Vaclav Karas, a teacher a Prague, in a sports journal in Brno in 1905. Soon after, rule changes were effected by other teachers, by the name of Klenka and Kristof. Thanks to Kristof, the first Czech handball association was established (in Prague) and the rules were made public in 1908.

Students from Russia and Yugoslavia, who had become acquainted with Czech handball in Prague, brought this sport to their countries. In Yugoslavia, the sport expanded very fast, and became very popular. Czech teachers were teaching the Czech handball in Russian middle schools and there was a competition with 14 teams in Charkov in 1915, but efforts to expand the sport ended after the October Revolution.

In 1921, the Czechoslovakian Association of Handball and Women's Sports became a member of the International Women's Sports Federation. In this federation, the rules of Czech handball were made official (in those times, there was also one similar sport, Field handball in Germany. Some international federations preferred Czech handball, others preferred Field handball). The first international matches were played.

Kiril "Kire" Lazarov (Macedonian: Кирил Лазаров) (born 10 May 1980 in Sveti Nikole) is a Macedonian handball player who currently plays for Atlético Madrid. He is also the captain of the Macedonia national handball team.

Lazarov was top scorer of the EHF Champions League two times with KC Veszprém and RK Zagreb. In 2011-12, he was top scorer for Velux EHF Final 4 runner-up Atlético Madrid.

On 29 January 2009, Lazarov became world record-holder for the number of goals scored in one World Championship. In nine games he scored 92 goals for the Macedonia national team at the 2009 World Men's Handball Championship that took place in Croatia.

On 24 March 2009, Kiril Lazarov was awarded the Medal for Service to the Country by the then-president of the Republic of Macedonia Branko Crvenkovski in acknowledgement of his sport achievements and his contribution to developing and popularizing sport in Macedonia as well as promoting the country abroad.

On January 27th 2012, Lazarov became both the European and World record-holder for scored goals in a single championship by scoring 61 goals in 7 games at the 2012 European Men's Handball Championship.