Rikke Petersen-Schmidt

Rikke Schmidt
Rikke Schmidt
Personal information
Full name	Rikke Petersen-Schmidt
Born	14 January 1975 (age 50); Aarhus, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Height	184 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Youth career
Years	Team
1981-1991	HK 71 Egernsund
Senior clubs
Years	Team
1991-1995	Vidar Sønderborg
1995-2002	Kolding IF
2002-2005	Slagelse FH
2005-2006	Aalborg DH
2006-2007	Ikast-Bording EH
2007	KIF Kolding
2012-2013	Team Esbjerg
2013-??	KIF Kolding
2019-2020	Horsens HK
National team
Years	Team
1999-2006	Denmark
Medal record
Women's handball
Representing Denmark
Olympic Games
European Championship

Rikke Petersen-Schmidt (born 14 January 1975) is a former Danish team handball player and two times Olympic champion. She played as a goalkeeper.

During her national team career she managed to play 104 games for the Danish National team from 1999 to 2006. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team both at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Career

Rikke Schmidt started playing handball at HK 71 Egernsund. At the age of 16 she moved to Vidar Sønderborg, where she played until she was 20. Her top level career started at KIF Kolding. While she played at Kolding, she debuted for the national team in 1999, and was part of the 2000 Olympics gold winning team.

In 2002 she transferred to Slagelse FH,^[4] where she won the EHF Cup in 2003 followed by winning both Danish League and the EHF Champions League back-to-back in 2004 and 2005.

In 2005 she joined Aalborg DH for a season, before joining Ikast-Bording EH.^[4] She retired in 2007, but decided to unretire to join KIF Kolding when Christine Lindemann was hit by injuries.^[5]

In 2012 she unretired for a second time to join Team Esbjerg, this time to Kari Aalvik Grimsbø and Marie Staun who were both on maternity leave. In 2013 she rejoined KIF Kolding that had fallen to the 2. Division, the third highest tier in Denmark.

A third time she would rejoin the professional handball world, when she joined Horsens HK in 2019, when Claudia Rompen was injured.^[6] In 2020 she retired from professional handball for the fourth time.

After her playing career she has taken an education as a physiotherapist.

References

^ "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 10 December 2008)
^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 10 December 2008)
^ Profile: Rikke Petersen-Schmidt sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 10 December 2008)
^ ^a ^b "Rikke Schmidt på europamester.dk" (in Danish). europamester.dk.
^ handball-world.news: Kolding reagiert auf Lindemannverletzung mit Neuverpflichtung, read 17. Januar 2021
^ hbf-info.de: Vier Abgänge in die Handball Bundesliga Frauen: Die Wechselbörse der dänischen Dameligaen, read 17 Januar 2021

[db-ol2000-handball-1] "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 10 December 2008)

[db-ol2004-handball-2] "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 10 December 2008)

[sports-ref-3] Profile: Rikke Petersen-Schmidt sports.reference.com (Retrieved on 10 December 2008)

[europamester-4] "Rikke Schmidt på europamester.dk" (in Danish). europamester.dk.

[5] -world.news: Kolding reagiert auf Lindemannverletzung mit Neuverpflichtung, read 17. Januar 2021

[6] -info.de: Vier Abgänge in die Handball Bundesliga Frauen: Die Wechselbörse der dänischen Dameligaen, read 17 Januar 2021

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