Lois Abbingh

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Lois Abbingh
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Lois Abbingh with Issy Paris Hand in April 2017
Personal information
Born (1992-08-13) 13 August 1992 (age 32)
Groningen, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Left back
Club information
Current club Borussia Dortmund Handball
Senior clubs
YearsTeam
 V&S Groningen
2009–2010
 E&O Emmen
2010–2014
 VfL Oldenburg
2014–2016
 HCM Baia Mare
2016–2018
 Issy Paris Hand
2018–2020
 Rostov-Don
2020–2023
 Odense Håndbold
2023–01/2025
 Vipers Kristiansand
02/2025–
 Borussia Dortmund Handball
National team 1
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2010–
 Netherlands 216 (902)
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
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 France
European Junior Championship
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2011 Netherlands
1 National team caps and goals correct
as of 13 January 2025

Lois Abbingh (born 13 August 1992) is a Dutch handball player who plays for Borussia Dortmund Handball and the Dutch national team. [1] 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]

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Career

Abbingh started playing handball at V&S Groningen. [4]

In 2009 she joined E&O Emmen, where she was the top scorer in the Eredivisie in the 2009-10 season. This prompted a move to the German Bundesliga side VfL Oldenburg. [5] Here she won the 2012 DHB-Pokal in 2012.

In 2014 she joined Romanian HCM Baia Mare. [6] Here she played for two years, where she won the Romanian cup in 2015, before joining French Issy Paris Hand. [7] In 2018 she joined Rostov-Don.. [8] Here she won the 2019 and 2020 Russian chanpionship.

In 2020 she joined Danish side Odense Håndbold. [9] Here she won the Danish championship in 2021 and 2022 and the Danish cup in 2020 [10] in a team, that featured many Dutch national team player including among other Larissa Nüsser and Dione Housheer.

In March 2022 she took a break from handball due to maternity leave. [11]

In 2023 she joined Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand. [12] In her first season at the club she won the Norwegian championship and the Norwegian cup. When she club went bankrupt in January 2025, [13] she joined German side Borussia Dortmund Handball on a 1.5 year contract. [14]

National Team

In 2011, she was a key player of the Dutch team that reached the final of the Women's 19 European Championship, just to fell short against Denmark in a close battle to 27–29. Abbingh scored 65 goals in the tournament and won the top scorer's award. [15]

She represented the Netherlands in six World Women's Handball Championship (winning a silver in Denmark 2015, [16] a bronze in Germany 2017, [17] and winning gold in Japan 2019), in four European Women's Handball Championship (winning a silver in Sweden 2016 [18] ) and two editions of the Olympic Games (finishing fourth in Rio 2016 and fifth in Tokyo 2020). [19] At the World Championship in 2017 she became a member of the All-Star team (as the best Left Back of the competition) and she was among the top goalscorers, ranking second with her 58 goals scored. [20]

She was a part of the Dutch team at the 2019 World Championship in Japan, where Netherlands won gold medals, beating Spain in the final 30:29 [3] [21] In the final of the 2019 World Championship she scored the winning goal for the Netherlands, when she converted a penalty to make it 30:29 with seconds to go. [22] She was the top scorer at the tournament with 71 goals and a conversion of 62%. [23]

She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics where the Netherlands finished 5th. [24]

At the 2024 Olympics she was chosen as the Dutch flag bearer together with the basketball player Worthy de Jong. [25] The Netherlands finished 5th for a second Olympics in a row.

Achievements

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ↑ "Lois Abbingh Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  2. ↑ Redactie (4 November 2019). "Mayonnade maakt definitieve WK-selectie bekend". handbal.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  3. 1 2 2019 World Women's Handball Championship roster
  4. ↑ "Lois Abbingh". rtvnoord.nl. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "VfL verpflichtet zwei niederländische Talente" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  6. ↑ "HCM Baia Mare a transferat-o pe Lois Abbingh" (in Romanian). actualmm.ro. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Transfermarkt: Erste Niederländerin in Paris" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  8. ↑ "Frühere Oldenburgerin Abbingh künftig in Russland" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  9. ↑ "Spillertilgang og spillerafgang i Odense Håndbold" (in Danish). Odense Håndbold . Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  10. 1 2 3 "The Double: Odense Håndbold vinder også pokalfinalen" (in Danish). TV2 Fyn . Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  11. ↑ "Odense muss auf Lois Abbingh verzichten: Frühere Bundesligaspielerin erwartet erstes Kind" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  12. ↑ "Lois Abbingh er klar for Vipers Kristiansand" (in Norwegian). Vipers Kristiansand . Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  13. ↑ "Norsk storklub går konkurs - igen" [Norwegian top club in bankrupt - again] (in Danish). Danmarks Radio. 13 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  14. ↑ "Toptransfer: BVB holt Weltmeisterin aus Kristiansand" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  15. ↑ "Denmark triumph at Women's 19 EURO". European Handball Federation. 14 August 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
  16. ↑ "Grimsbø Shines as Norway Claim the Title". International Handball Federation. 20 December 2018.
  17. ↑ "The Netherlands claim second consecutive World Championship medal". International Handball Federation. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  18. ↑ "'Heja Norge' for the seventh time". swe2016.ehf-euro.com. 18 December 2016.
  19. ↑ "Norway secure third consecutive medal". International Handball Federation. 20 August 2016.
  20. ↑ "The Germany 2017 All-star Team". International Handball Federation. 17 December 2017.
  21. ↑ "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.
  22. ↑ Kjær, Christian (15 December 2019). "VM-finalen afgjort af kontroversiel kendelse: - Det er ikke fair" [World Cup final decided by controversial call: "It is not fair."] (in Danish). TV2 Danmark . Retrieved 9 February 2025.
  23. 1 2 IHF - topscorer
  24. ↑ "ABBINGH Lois". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games . Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  25. ↑ "Netherlands projected to win 16 gold medals at Paris Olympics; flag bearers are "proud"". nltimes.nl. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  26. ↑ "World Female Best 8 in 2019!". handball-planet.com. 20 January 2020.
  27. ↑ "Pokalfightere" (in Danish). Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
Olympic Games
Preceded by Flag bearer for the Netherlands
2024 opening ceremony
With: Worthy de Jong 		Succeeded by
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