Cecilie Leganger (born 12 March 1975) is a Norwegian retired

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er who played for the Norwegian national team.

International championships

Leganger made her debut on the Norwegian national team in 1993, 17 years old, and retired three years later, only 20. In 1993 she obtained bronze medal at the

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, being voted as Best Goalkeeper and Most Valuable Player at the championship. At the European Championship in 1994, she was voted best goalkeeper. At the 1995 World Championship she was again voted Best Goalkeeper. After a one-year break she made comeback as a club player, but did not play on the national team until the 1998 European Championship, winning gold medal with the Norwegian team and voted as best keeper in the championship. World Champion in 1999, again voted best keeper. She received bronze medal at the Olympic Championships in Sydney 2000."2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved 29 April 2008) At the World Championship in 2001 she voted again the best keeper.

Club player

As a club player she is Norwegian Champion from 1999 (with Bækkelaget),

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n Champion from 2004 (with Krim Ljubljana),

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Champion from 2005 (with Slagelse), and Women's EHF Champion in 2004/05 and 2006/07. She played for

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from 2010 until 2014 which would be the last club she played for before retiring. She is considered by many as one of the best goalkeepers of all time.

Individual awards

*All-Star Goalkeeper of the

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: 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2001 *Most Valuable Player of the

: 1993 *All-Star Goalkeeper of the European Championship:

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and 1998 *All-Star Goalkeeper of Gildeserien: 1999/2000, 2000/2001 and 2001/2002 *

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: 2001Previous World Handball Players
'' (Retrieved 11 December 2007)"World Handball Players of the Year"
– ''houstonhandball.org'' (Retrieved 29 April 2008) *Goalkeeper of the Year: 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009 in the Danish League *Player of the Year in the Danish League: 2007 (selected by the players' committee)"Leganger og Mogensen er årets håndboldspillere"
– ''Berlingske Tidende (Lørdag den 5. januar 2008)'' (Retrieved 29 April 2008) *All-Star Goalkeeper of Postenligaen: 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 *Norwegian national goalkeeper of all time *Norwegian female handball player of all time

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Leganger, Cecilie 1975 births Living people Norwegian female handball players Expatriate handball players Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Norwegian expatriates in Slovenia Expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia Olympic handball players of Norway Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bergen Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics