Anna Kristensen

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Anna Kristensen
Personal information
Full name Anna Opstrup Kristensen
Born (2000-10-25) 25 October 2000 (age 24)
Skanderborg, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Team Esbjerg
Number 12
Youth career
YearsTeam
2009–2018
 Skanderborg Håndbold
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2017–2019
 Skanderborg Håndbold
2019–2023
 Viborg HK
02/2023–
 Team Esbjerg
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019–
 Denmark 43 (0)
Medal record
World Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2021 Spain
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Denmark/Norway/Sweden
European Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Slovenia/North Macedonia/Montenegro
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Austria/Hungary/Switzerland

Anna Opstrup Kristensen (born 25 October 2000) is a Danish handball player for Team Esbjerg and the Danish national team. [1] [2]

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She also represented Denmark in the 2017 European Women's U-17 Handball Championship, 2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship, and in the 2019 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 6th all three times. [3]

She made her debut on the Danish national team on 21 March 2019. [4]

Career

Anna Kristensen started playing for her local club Skanderborg Håndbold, before she switched to Danish top club Viborg HK. [1] In her first season at the club they came third in the league, and Kristensen won the best goalkeeper in the league award. [5]

At the end of 2022, she signed a pre-contract with league rivals Team Esbjerg, which was supposed to start in the summer of 2023. However, due to Esbjerg lacking options at the goalkeeper position, they agreed that she would join the club already in January 2023. [6] The same season, she won the Danish Women's Handball Cup with Esbjerg and won the Årets Pokalfighter (cup fighter of the year) award. [7]

Achievements

Individual awards

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References

  1. 1 2 "Viborg HK sikrer sig ungt målvogtertalent" [Viborg HK secures young goalkeeper talent] (in Danish). Viborg HK. 2 February 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. ↑ DHDb profile
  3. ↑ "2019 Women's European Championship 19 – Final Tournament". EHF . Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  4. ↑ Anna Opstrup Kristensen - Statistik - Håndbold.dk
  5. ↑ "Årets Hold i HTH Ligaen kåret – Rejs fantomsæson" (in Danish). tophåndbold.dk.
  6. ↑ "Anna Kristensen klar for Team Esbjerg allerede nu" [Anne Kristensen is ready for Team Esbjerg already now] (in Danish). Team Esbjerg.
  7. ↑ "Nyegaard hylder pokalfighter: - En vild udvikling" [Nyegaard praises the pokal fighter - wild development] (in Danish). TV2 Denmark.
  8. ↑ "Summary: Norway win record 10th title; Kristensen crowned MVP". EHF . Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  9. ↑ "Anna Kristensen adds MVP and All-star goalkeeper award to silver". EHF . Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  10. ↑ "Women's EHF EURO 2024 All-star Team revealed". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  11. ↑ "Årets Hold i HTH Ligaen kåret – Rejs fantomsæson". tophaandbold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  12. ↑ "Årets Hold kåret i Bambusa Kvindeligaen – Kristina Jørgensen sublimt spillende". tophaandbold.dk (in Danish). 23 March 2021.
  13. ↑ "Årets Kvindelige Talent". tophaandbold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 13 September 2021.
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