Karin Mortensen - Wikipedia
- ️Mon Sep 26 1977
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| Karin Mortensen | ||||||||||||||||
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| Personal information | ||||||||||||||||
| Born |
26 September 1977 (age 47) Horsens, Denmark | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Danish | |||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |||||||||||||||
| Club information | ||||||||||||||||
| Current club | Retired | |||||||||||||||
| Senior clubs | ||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | |||||||||||||||
1998-2002 | Horsens HK | |||||||||||||||
2002-2006 | Ikast/Bording EH | |||||||||||||||
2006-2010 | SK Aarhus | |||||||||||||||
2010-2013 | FIF | |||||||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||
2000-2012 | Denmark | 233[1] | (4) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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Karin Ørnhøj Mortensen (born 26 September 1977) is a former Danish team handball player and two times Olympic champion.[2] She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney[3] and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens,[4] as well as the 2002 European Women's Handball Championship where she was awarded the MVP award for the tournament.[5]
She retired from the national team in September 2012.[6] Having played 233 matches, she is the second most tenured player on the Danish Women's national team (second to Janne Kolling with 250 matches), and the most matches as Goalkeeper.[7]
During her handball career, she educated herself as a physiotherapist and today she has a clinic in Copenhagen.[8] Additionally, she has worked sporadically as a handball expert on Danish television.[9]
- ^ Official squad 2012 Women’s EHF European Championship Archived 2013-11-02 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Karin Mortensen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Full name: Karin Ørnhøj Mortensen
- ^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 7 April 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2008.
- ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 7 April 2008. Retrieved 12 February 2008.
- ^ "Husker du håndboldstjernen Karin Mortensen? Det laver hun i dag". 6 December 2023.
- ^ Andersen, Patrick (15 September 2012). "Målmandsprofil stopper på landsholdet". Hbold.dk (in Danish). Archived from the original on 18 September 2012. Retrieved 15 September 2012.
- ^ "Den store målvogter har forladt håndbolden" [The Great Goalkeeper has left handball]. Jyske Vestkysten. 25 September 2017.
- ^ "Karin Mortensen". Fysio360.
- ^ "Husker du håndboldstjernen Karin Mortensen? Det laver hun i dag" [Do you remember the handball star Karin Mortensen? This is what she does today.] (in Danish). Billed-bladet. 6 December 2023.
- Karin Mortensen at the European Handball Federation (also at EHF Archive)
- Karin Mortensen at Olympedia
- Karin Oernhoej Mortensen at Olympics.com
- 1977 births
- Living people
- Danish female handball players
- Olympic gold medalists for Denmark
- Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Handball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in handball
- Olympic handball players for Denmark
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Horsens
- Handball players from the Central Denmark Region
- Danish handball biography stubs
- Danish Olympic medalist stubs