Sarah Iversen

Sarah Iversen
Personal information
Full name Sarah Aaberg Iversen
Born (1990-04-10) 10 April 1990 (age 34)
Frederiksberg, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Pivot
Club information
Current club Herning-Ikast Håndbold
Number 11
Youth career
Team
 SNIK
 Lyngby HK
–2008
 Virum-Sorgenfri HK
Senior clubs
Years Team
2008–2009
 Nordkøbenhavn Håndbold
2009–2012
 Nykøbing Falster HK
2012–2016
 Odense Håndbold
2016–2018
 Nykøbing Falster HK
2018–
 Herning-Ikast Håndbold
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–
 Denmark 110 (184)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Paris Team
World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Denmark/Norway/Sweden
European Championship
Silver medal – second place 2022 Slovenia/North Macedonia/Montenegro
Silver medal – second place 2024 Austria/Hungary/Switzerland
IHF Youth World Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Slovakia

Sarah Aaberg Iversen (born 10 April 1990) is a Danish handball player for Herning-Ikast Håndbold and the Danish national team.[1][2][3]

She made her debut on the Danish national team on 19 March 2015, against France.[4]

She represented Denmark at the 2017 World Women's Handball Championship in Germany.[5]

She is the elder sister of handballer Rikke Iversen.

Career

Sarah Iversen played youth handball at SNIK, Lyngby HK and Virum-Sorgenfri HK. In 2008 she switched to second tier side Nordkøbenhavn Håndbold.[6] After a year she switched to Nykøbing Falster Håndbold. In 2012/2013 season she moved to HC Odense, but returned to Nykøbing Falster after 4 seasons.[7]

In the 2018/2019 season she moved to Herning-Ikast Håndbold.[8] In her first season she won the Danish Cup.[9] In the summer of 2020 she took a break due to pregnancy, which made her miss the 2020 European Women's Handball Championship.[10]

In 2023 she won the EHF European League with Ikast Håndbold.

Achievements

Individual awards

References

  1. ^ "NFH holdet – 2016/2017". nfh.dk. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Truppen til Danmark-Norge". DHF. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  3. ^ EHF profile
  4. ^ "Sarah Iversen - Statistik - Håndbold.dk" (in Danish). Danish Handball Federation. Retrieved 23 May 2020.
  5. ^ 2017 World Women's Handball Championship roster
  6. ^ lyngby-taarbaek.lokalavisen.dk: Nordkøbenhavn Håndbolds trup er fyldt med talent
  7. ^ fyens.dk: Markant stregspiller i farvel til HC Odense
  8. ^ fyens.dk: FCM Håndbold har fundet nyt navn og henter profiler
  9. ^ sport.tv2.dk: Herning-Ikast udspiller Odense i ulige pokalfinale
  10. ^ "Dänemark bei Heim-Europameisterschaft ohne Kreisläuferin Sarah Iversen" [Denmark to play host European Championship without Pivot Sarah Iversen] (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
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