Poulsen is a Danish patronymic surname meaning "son of Poul". The form Paulsen is a less common cognate.
Viborg HK is a Danish professional handball club from Viborg. The club has many teams for both women and men, but especially the professional women's team is one of the most successful in Danish and European handball since the beginning of the 1990s. This team currently competes in the women's Danish Women's Handball League.
The Denmark women's national handball team is the national team of Denmark. It is governed by the Danish Handball Federation (DHF).
Rikke Erhardsen Skov is a former Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. A loyal player of Viborg HK, Skov joined the club yet as a teenager in 1994 and it remained her lone team till she retired in 2016 and retired from active sports when she became pregnant in February 2017.
Lotte Kiærskou is a Danish former team handball player, and twice Olympic champion and former handball coach. She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.
Klavs Bruun Jørgensen is a Danish handball player and coach. As a player, he led FCK Håndbold to the Danish championship in May 2008. He has previously played for many years by Danish Handball League rivals GOG, with whom he won two Danish titles. For a short period he played for German league side SG Wallau-Massenheim.
Ikast Håndbold is a Danish professional women's handball club based in Ikast. They have competed in Damehåndboldligaen, Denmark's primary handball league, since 1991.
Rikke Hørlykke Jørgensen is a former Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Additionally she won the European Championship 2002, and the Danish league and EHF Champions League in 2004.
Rikke Petersen-Schmidt is a former Danish team handball player and two times Olympic champion. She played as a goalkeeper.
Events from the year 1980 in Denmark.
Trine Bach Troelsen is a retired Danish team handball player who played for the Danish women's national handball team.
Team Esbjerg is a professional women's handball team based in Esbjerg, Denmark, that competes in the Bambusa Kvindeligaen and the 2024–25 Women's EHF Champions League. They play their home matches in Blue Water Dokken, which have capacity for 2,996 spectators. They play games in red shirts and black shorts.
Rikke Nielsen is a former Danish handballer. She previously played for Aalborg DH, and before that she played for the German club HC Leipzig. Before this she played for Aalborg DH and its parent club HS Nord. She won silver medals at the European Championships in 2004. In all she played 54 national games and scored 68 goals. Her first national game was 25 September 2003.
Denmark competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Danish athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games throughout the modern era, except for the sparsely attended 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis. The Danish team consisted of 120 athletes, 79 men and 41 women, across sixteen sports. Before the start of the games, DIF sat an official medal goal of 10 medals for the Rio games.
Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub is a Danish professional handball club from Nykøbing Falster. In the 2024–24 season, the club competes in the Danish Women's Handball League. They have a local rivalry with fellow Zealand team København Håndbold.
Sarah Aaberg Iversen is a Danish handball player for Herning-Ikast Håndbold and the Danish national team.
Althea Rebecca Reinhardt is a Danish handball player for Odense Håndbold and the Danish national team. She signed for Odense in 2016, after starting the career at Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub. With Odense she won the Danish Cup in 2020 and the Danish League in 2021 and 2022.
Rikke Iversen is a Danish handball player for Team Esbjerg and the Danish national team.
Rikke Marie Granlund is a Norwegian handball player for Sola HK and the Norwegian national team.
Lív Sveinbjørnsdóttir Poulsen is a Faroese handballer who plays for EH Aalborg in the Danish Women's Handball League and the Faroe Islands women's national team.
