Gitte Sunesen (born 11 December 1971) is a former

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team handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the g ...

player, Olympic champion and World champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the

1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...

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."1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Handball"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on February 12, 2008) She is World champion from 1997.

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1971 births Living people Danish female handball players Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Handball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics People from Favrskov Municipality Sportspeople from the Central Denmark Region {{Denmark-Olympic-medalist-stub