Anne Mette Hansen

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Anne Mette Hansen
Personal information
Born (1994-08-25) 25 August 1994 (age 30)
Glostrup, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current club Metz Handball
Number 8
Youth career
Team
FHH90
2010–2013
Ajax København
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2012–2014
Ajax København
2014–2017
København Håndbold
2017–2023
Győri ETO KC
2023–
Metz Handball
National team
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2013–
Denmark 171 (500)

Anne Mette Hansen (born 25 August 1994) is a Danish handball player for Metz Handball and the Danish national team. [1]

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National team career

She debuted for the Danish national team on 27 October 2013, and the same year she represented Denmark at the 2013 World Women's Handball Championship in Serbia (where the Danish team won bronze medals), and she has been a mainstay on the national setup since. [2] Since then she has won two additional bronze medals in 2021 and 2023.

Club career

Anne Mette Hansen started playing handball at the age of 10 at FHH90. In 2010 she went to Københavns Idrætsefterskole (KIES) while at the same time switching to Ajax København. Here she made her senior league debut in the Danish 1st Division (second tier) in 2014, before signing her first professional contract with København Håndbold. She played at København Håndbold for three years before moving to Hungarian side Győri Audi ETO KC at the age of 22. She played with Győri for 6 years, where she won EHF Champions League three times in a row in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

In 2023 she switched to the French league champions Metz Handball. She said regarding the transfer, that she look forward to playing alongside national team colleagues Kristina Jørgensen and Louise Burgaard. [3]

Achievements

Individual awards

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References

  1. EHF profile
  2. "2014 European Championship Roster" (PDF). handball.sportresult.com. EHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  3. "Anne Mette Hansens skifte skal gavne landsholdet". TV 2 (Denmark). 6 January 2023. Retrieved 17 January 2024.
  4. "Årets Kvindelige Talent". tophaandbold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 13 September 2021.