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.
Zhai Chao is a Chinese handball player who competed in the 1996 and 2004 Summer Olympics, as well as in the 1999, 2001 and 2003 World championships. She was voted IHF World Player of the Year 2002.
Heidi Astrup is a former Danish team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. She is two times European champion, and received a bronze medal at the 1995 World championship.
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.
Kristine Lunde-Borgersen is a retired Norwegian handballer who played for the Norwegian national team. She is Olympic champion, World Champion and three times European champion. She is the twin sister of fellow handball player Katrine Lunde. On 13 June 2017, she announced her return to playing handball for the 2017–2018 season, to replace Marta Tomac, who is out of play following a severe injury.
Bojana Popović née Petrović, is a handball coach and a retired Montenegrin handballer. She is considered by many to be the best female handball player of the past decade, despite not being given any official recognition. After winning the Women's EHF Champions League with Budućnost and a silver medal at the 2012 Olympic Games with the Montenegro national team, Bojana Popović decided to retire from handball. However, in June 2016 Popović announced she would come out of retirement and make herself available for selection by the Montenegro national handball team to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Gitte Aaen is a Danish former handballer. She won the Champions League with Viborg in 2009
Johanna Maria Helène Ahlm is a former Swedish handball player. She started and ended her career at the Swedish club IK Sävehof, but other than those tenures she played her entire career in the Danish handball league. She also played for the Sweden women's national handball team. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where Sweden placed 8th, and the 2012 Summer Olympics, where Sweden placed 11th. Ahlm was listed among the top ten goalscorers at the 2008 Olympics tournament with 40 goals.
Lene Lund Høy Karlsen is a Danish former handball player. She played her entire career in the Danish league system for, GOG Håndbold, Odense HK, Fredericia HK and Viborg HK.
Maria Fisker Stokholm is a Danish handball player for Viborg HK and the Danish national team.
Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen is a Danish retired handball wing player and current coach of the Danish national team. He was named World Coach of the Year in 2021 by IHF. He is the first manager for a national team to win three world championships in a row (2019-2023).
Stine Bodholt Nielsen is a Danish handball player for HH Elite and the Danish national team. She is the twin sister of fellow handball player Sidsel Bodholt Nielsen.
Simone Böhme is a Danish female handballer for HC Dunărea Brăila and the Danish national team.
Line Haugsted is a Danish professional handball player for Team Esbjerg and the Danish national team.
Kristina Jørgensen is a Danish handball player for Győri ETO KC and the Danish national team.
The 2017 Danish Handball Cup, known as Santander Cup 2017 for sponsorship reasons, is the 54th edition of the national women's handball cup tournament. Randers HK are the defending champions.
This article displays the squads for the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship. Each team consists of up to 28 players, of whom 16 may be fielded for each match.
Camilla Larsen Degn is a Danish handball player and beach handball player who currently plays for Viborg HK.
