Danick Snelder

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Danick Snelder
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Personal information
Full name Danick Albertine Snelder
Born (1990-05-22) 22 May 1990 (age 34)
Pijnacker, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Pivot
Club information
Current club SG BBM Bietigheim
Number 24
Youth career
YearsTeam
1995-2005
 Oliveo Pijnacker
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2005–2010
 HV Hellas Den Haag
2010–2016
 Thüringer HC
2016–2020
 Ferencvárosi TC
2020
 Siófok KC
2020–2024
 SG BBM Bietigheim
National team 1
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2009-
 Netherlands 207 (520)
Medal record
World Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Japan
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Denmark
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Germany
European Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 Sweden
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 17 July 2024

Danick Albertine Snelder (born 22 May 1990) is a Dutch handball player for SG BBM Bietigheim and the Dutch national team. [1]

Contents

She was a part the Netherlands team that won the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship; the first title in the country's history. [2] [3]

Career

From 1995 to 2005 Snelder played for Oliveo Pijnacker, where she joined Omni SV Hellas Den Haag. In 2010 she joined German side Thüringer HC where she won the Bundesliga 6 times in a row from 2010-11 to 2015-16. In this period she also won the DHB-Pokal in 2011 and 2013.

In 2016 she joined Hungarian Ferencvárosi TC. [4] Here she won the 2017 Hungarian cup. In 2020 she joined league rivals Siófok KC, [5] but already in October 2020 she left the club to return to Germany. Here she joined SG BBM Bietigheim. [6] Here she won the 2021 and 2022 DHB-Pokal, the 2021 DHB-Supercup, the 2022 German championship and the 2022 EHF European League.

In 2022 she was out for a while with cartilage damage in her knee. The club replaced her with Annika Meyer in the meantime. [7] In 2024 she left the club. [8]

National team

Snelder debuted for the Dutch national team on March 7th 2009 against Spain. Her first major international tournament was the 2010 European Championship in Denmark/Norway.

She participated at the 2011 World Championship in Brazil [9] [10] and the 2013 World Championship in Serbia. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where the Dutch team placed fourth. [11]

At the 2016 European Championship she won silver medals, and she won bronze medals at the 2017 World Championship.

In 2019 she won a World Championship gold medal, beating Spain in the final 30:29. [12]

She also represented Netherlands at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. [13]

Achievements

References

  1. ↑ EHF profile
  2. ↑ "Mayonnade maakt definitieve WK-selectie bekend". handbal.nl (in Dutch). 4 November 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  3. ↑ 2019 World Women's Handball Championship roster
  4. ↑ "Forming the team". fradi.hu. 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Weltmeisterin Danick Snelder wechselt innerhalb Ungarns" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "Niederländische Weltmeisterin Danick Snelder wechselt sofort nach Bietigheim". sgbbm.de (in German). SG BBM Bietigheim . Retrieved 30 October 2020.
  7. ↑ "Kapitänin Danick Snelder fällt lange aus / Annika Meyer nachverpflichtet". sgbbm.de (in German). SG BBM Bietigheim. 23 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  8. ↑ "Deutlicher Heimsieg, Meisterschale und Fanfest zum HBF-Saisonfinale" (in German). German Bundesliga . Retrieved 17 July 2024.
  9. ↑ "XX Women's World Handball Championship 2011; Brazil – Team Roster Netherlands" (PDF). International Handball Federation . Retrieved 16 December 2011.
  10. ↑ "2014 European Championship Roster" (PDF). handball.sportresult.com. EHF. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 December 2014. Retrieved 7 December 2014.
  11. ↑ "Danick Snelder Biographical information". olympedia.org. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  12. ↑ "Holland er verdensmester for første gang" [Netherlands are world champions for the first time ever] (in Danish). TV2 Danmark. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  13. ↑ ihf.info: Match Team Statistics: Netherlands vs. Japan, retrieved 25. Juli 2021
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