Mette Vestergaard
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| Full name | Mette Vestergaard Larsen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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27 November 1975 Taastrup, Denmark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Danish | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Right back | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1982–1992 | Rødovre HK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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1992–1994 | Rødovre HK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1994–2002 | FIF Håndbold | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2002–2006 | FCK Håndbold | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2006–2013 | Lyngby HK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1995–2005 | Denmark | 181 | (519) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mette Vestergaard Larsen (born 27 November 1975) is a Danish former team handball player and coach. During her playing career she became two times Olympic champion. She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney[1] and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[2]
At club level she never won a trophy, the closest being 2nd place in the Danish league in 1999/2000 with FIF. In the 1995–96 and 2000-01 season she was the topscorer in the Danish top league, Damehåndboldligaen.[3]
Between 2015 and 2020 she was part of the staff around the Danish Women's National Team.[4]
She was included in the European Handball Federation Hall of Fame in 2023.[5]
References
[edit]- ↑ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved 12 February 2008)
- ↑ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved 12 February 2008)
- ↑ "Topscorere siden 1965 - Damer" (in Danish). Danish Handball Federation. 9 July 2008. Archived from the original on 19 February 2009. Retrieved 15 March 2009.
- ↑ "Mette Vestergaard i ny landsholdsrolle – DHF". Archived from the original on 9 July 2016.
- ↑ "LEGENDARY PLAYERS ENTER THE HALL OF FAME OF EUROPEAN HANDBALL". eurohandball.com. European Handball Federation. 26 June 2023. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
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