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Rikke Skov
Danish handball player (born 1980) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Rikke Erhardsen Skov (born 7 September 1980) 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.[1] 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.[2]
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Rikke Erhardsen Skov | ||
Born |
(1980-09-07) 7 September 1980 (age 43) Viborg, Denmark | ||
Nationality | Danish | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Playing position | Left back | ||
Number | 2 | ||
Youth career | |||
Years | Team | ||
1994–1998 | Viborg HK | ||
Senior clubs | |||
Years | Team | ||
1998–2016 | Viborg HK | ||
National team 1 | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2000–2016 | Denmark | 152 | (384) |
Medal record | |||
1 National team caps and goals correct as of 5 November 2023 |
In 2011, she was one of the five handballers, and the only woman who received The EHF Handball Award. The prize was handed out in the 20th anniversary of the European Handball Federation for the players who achieved the biggest successes both in club and international level.[3]