Helena Paulo


Helena Gilda Simão Paulo is an Angolan handball player for Romanian CSM Târgu Jiu and the Angola [women's national handball team|Angolan national team]. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in Handball at the [2020 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|Women's Handball].

National team

She represented Angola at the 2017 [World Women's Handball Championship] in Germany, and at the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship in Spain.
In 2018, she represented Angola at the 2018 Women's Junior World Handball Championship where she finished as the competition's top scorer with a total 73 goals.

Club career

At club level she played with Primeiro de Agosto (handball)#Primeiro [de">C.D. Primeiro de Agosto (handball)">Primeiro de Agosto (handball)#Primeiro [de Agosto Women's Handball|Primeiro de Agosto] until 2024. In 2019 she was part of the team that won the IHF Women's Super Globe. Paulo scored 10 goals in the final.

Achievements

Individual awards