Anna Kristensen

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Anna Kristensen
Personal information
Full name Anna Opstrup Kristensen
Born (2000-10-25) 25 October 2000 (age 25)
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
02/2023–2026
 Team Esbjerg
2026–
 Ferencvárosi TC
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019–
 Denmark 58 (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]

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. [4]

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. [5] The same season, she won the Danish Women's Handball Cup with Esbjerg and won the Årets Pokalfighter (cup fighter of the year) award. [6]

In November 2025 she announced that she would join Hungarian Ferencvárosi TC after the 2025-26 season. [7]

National team

She made her debut on the Danish national team on 21 March 2019. [8] She did however not initially see much playing time as Sandra Toft and Althea Reinhardt was preferred ahead of her.

Her championship debut came at the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship, where she was part of the team winning bronze medals, but she was never apart of the match squad. At the 2022 European Women's Handball Championship, she was part of winning the silver medal, but yet again she never entered the match squad. [9] [10]

She also won bronze medals at the 2023 World Women's Handball Championship, although she was definitely still a third choice behind Toft and Reinhardt, only having played a single match. [11] At the 2024 Summer Olympics, Kristensen was a back-up, but never a part of the actual squad.

At the 2024 European Women's Handball Championship Danish head coach Jesper Jensen surprisingly chose to pick her instead of 2021 IHF World Player of the Year winner and Danish national team captain Sandra Toft, winning silver medails. [12] [10] This was a wise choice, as Kristensen both was chosen as the championships Most Valuable Player [13] and a part of the All Star Team as best goalkeeper. [14] [15] Toft was later in the tournament called to the squad, when Reinhardt became injured.

Following another injury to Althea Reinhardt, Kristensen entered the 2025 World Women's Handball Championship as the definitive Danish first choice with Amalie Milling as her partner. [16] [10]

Achievements

Individual awards

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. ↑ "Årets Hold i HTH Ligaen kåret – Rejs fantomsæson" (in Danish). tophåndbold.dk.
  5. ↑ "Anna Kristensen klar for Team Esbjerg allerede nu" [Anne Kristensen is ready for Team Esbjerg already now] (in Danish). Team Esbjerg.
  6. ↑ "Nyegaard hylder pokalfighter: - En vild udvikling" [Nyegaard praises the pokal fighter - wild development] (in Danish). TV2 Denmark.
  7. ↑ "Jesper Jensen jubler over Kristensens skifte" (in Danish). TV2 Danmark. 21 November 2025. Retrieved 21 November 2025.
  8. ↑ Anna Opstrup Kristensen - Statistik - Håndbold.dk
  9. ↑ "25th IHF Women's World Championship 2021: Denmark" (PDF). ihf.info. International Handball Federation . Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  10. 1 2 3 Jens Fall Hansen; Emil Halkier (2 December 2025). "Efter en voldsom oplevelse er Danmarks superkeeper 'et meget bedre sted'" (in Danish). Danmarks Radio . Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  11. ↑ "Håndboldkvinderne fik VM-bronze og direkte billett til OL" (in Danish). Dansk Håndbold. Retrieved 30 December 2023.
  12. ↑ Emil Halkier (15 November 2024). "Sandra Toft sætter ord på EM-fravalg: 'Blev enormt ked af det'" (in Danish). Danmarks Radio . Retrieved 5 December 2025.
  13. ↑ "Summary: Norway win record 10th title; Kristensen crowned MVP". EHF . Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  14. ↑ "Anna Kristensen adds MVP and All-star goalkeeper award to silver". EHF . Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  15. ↑ "Women's EHF EURO 2024 All-star Team revealed". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  16. ↑ "Amalie Milling tager med til VM". Dansk Håndbold. 19 November 2025. Retrieved 19 November 2025.
  17. ↑ "Summary: Norway win record 10th title; Kristensen crowned MVP". EHF . Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  18. ↑ "Anna Kristensen adds MVP and All-star goalkeeper award to silver". EHF . Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  19. ↑ "Women's EHF EURO 2024 All-star Team revealed". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2024.
  20. ↑ "Årets Hold i HTH Ligaen kåret – Rejs fantomsæson". tophaandbold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  21. ↑ "Årets Hold kåret i Bambusa Kvindeligaen – Kristina Jørgensen sublimt spillende". tophaandbold.dk (in Danish). 23 March 2021.
  22. ↑ "Årets Kvindelige Talent". tophaandbold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 13 September 2021.
  23. ↑ "Pokalfightere" (in Danish). Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
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