Emil Jakobsen

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Emil Jakobsen
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Jakobsen in 2024
Personal information
Full name Emil Manfeldt Jakobsen
Born (1998-01-24) 24 January 1998 (age 28)
Kerteminde, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Left wing
Club information
Current club SG Flensburg-Handewitt
Number 31
Youth career
YearsTeam
2001–2011
 Kerteminde HK
2011–2016
 GOG Håndbold
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
2016–2021
 GOG Håndbold
2021–
 SG Flensburg-Handewitt
National team 1
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2019–
 Denmark 111 (406)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2024 Paris Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2020 Tokyo Team
World Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Egypt
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Poland/Sweden
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2025 Croatia/Denmark/Norway
European Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2026 Denmark/Norway/Sweden
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2024 Germany
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2022 Hungary/Slovakia
Youth World Championship
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2017 Georgia
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 1 February 2026

Emil Jakobsen (born 24 January 1998) is a Danish handball player for the German club SG Flensburg-Handewitt and the Danish national team. [1]

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He joined his current club, Flensburg-Handewitt in 2021 on a three-year contract. In 2022 he announced that he had prolonged the contract until 2026. [2]

He represented Denmark at the 2021, [3] [4] 2023, and the 2025 World Championships, [5] where he won gold medals on all three occasions. [6] [7] Furthermore, he also won gold modals at the 2024 Olympics. [8]

Career

Jakobsen started playing handball in his hometown at Kerteminde HK. He switched to the GOG Håndbold youth team in 2011. In the 2016/2017, he debuted for the league senior team. In the 2017/18 season, he came third in the league, and in 2018/2019, he came second with GOG. In both season he was named as the 'talent of the season' in Danish handball. [9] In 2019, he won the Danish Men's Handball Cup. In the 2020-2021 season with GOG Håndbold, he was the top scorer in the EHF European League. In the 2020-21 season, he was the topscorer in the ordinary season in the Danish league with 244 goals. [10]

In 2021, he joined the German club SG Flensburg-Handewitt. [11] Here he won the EHF European League in 2024.

At the EHF Excellence Awards in both 2024 and 2025, he was named best left wing in the previous season. [12] [13]

At the 2026 European Men's Handball Championship he won gold medals, meaning that Denmark held both the World, European and Olympic titles at the same time, as only the second team ever after France's 'Les Experts'. [14]

Personal life

He was in a relationship with Danish women's handball player Helena Elver until 2025. [15]

Achievements

References

  1. ↑ "Jakobsen, EMIL". eurohandball.com. Retrieved 20 January 2021.
  2. ↑ "Emil Jakobsen". Hbold.dk (in Danish). 29 August 2024. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  3. ↑ "Nikolaj Jacobsen indkalder 20 spillere til VM". Danish Handball Federation (DHF). 17 December 2020. Archived from the original on 21 February 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
  4. ↑ "Team Roster Denmark" (PDF). ihf.info. 15 January 2021. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "Stærk trup klar til VM-forsvaret" (in Danish). Dansk Håndbold . Retrieved 18 December 2024.
  6. ↑ "Denmark write history with otherworldly three-peat". ihf.info. International Handball Federation. 29 January 2023. Retrieved 29 January 2023.
  7. ↑ Christian Ipsen (2 February 2025). "Her er Danmarks utrolige rekorder" [Here are Denmark's unbelievable records] (in Danish). TV2 Danmark . Retrieved 22 February 2025.
  8. ↑ "Denmark snatch spellbinding win to win second Olympics gold medal". ihf.info. Retrieved 11 August 2024.
  9. 1 2 Skjødt Østergaard Pedersen, Jan (8 June 2019). "Emil Jakobsen kåret til Årets talent". hbold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 27 January 2025.
  10. 1 2 "Målscorer" [goalscorers]. tophaandbold.dk. Danish Handball Federation . Retrieved 13 February 2025.
  11. ↑ "SG Flensburg-Handewitt verpflichtet Nachfolger von Magnus Jøndal aus Dänemark" [SG Flensburg Handewitt signs the replacement for Magnus Jøndal from Denmark] (in German). handball-world.news. Archived from the original on 29 October 2021. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
  12. 1 2 "EHF Excellence Awards 2025: Men's Team of the Season revealed". EHF. Retrieved 25 June 2025.
  13. 1 2 "EHF Excellence Awards 2024: These are the season's best players". EHF. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  14. ↑ "Euro 2026 Final - Match Report". European Handball Federation. 1 February 2026. Retrieved 1 February 2026.
  15. ↑ "Endelig, Emil Jakobsen: Hygger sig uden Helena Elver" (in Danish). Se og Hør . Retrieved 1 January 2026.
  16. ↑ "Mere hæder til Emil Jakobsen". GOG (in Danish). Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  17. ↑ "Herreligaen - All-Star". tophaandbold.dk. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  18. ↑ "All-star Team and MVP". IHF. Archived from the original on 21 August 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2021.
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