Mads Mensah Larsen (born 12 August 1991) is a Danish

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 for

SG Flensburg-Handewitt SG Flensburg-Handewitt is a professional handball club from Flensburg and Handewitt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and EHF European League. They play home matches at Flens-Arena. Since formin ...

and the Denmark national team. He previously played for the clubs

AG København AG København (former name: AG Håndbold) was a Danish handball club from Glostrup and Albertslund, two suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. In the season 2010/2011 it plays in the Danish Handball League. Their head coach was former Danish national t ...

, Nordsjælland Håndbold and

Aalborg Håndbold Aalborg Handball ( da, Aalborg Håndbold) is a handball club from Aalborg, Denmark that competes in the Danish Handball League. Aalborg Håndbold play their home games in the Gigantium arena in Aalborg – known as Jutlander Bank Arena for sponsor ...

. He studied

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Aalborg University Aalborg University (AAU) is a Danish public university with campuses in Aalborg, Esbjerg, and Copenhagen founded in 1974. The university awards bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and PhD degrees in a wide variety of subjects within humanities ...

. He has a Danish mother and a Ghanaian father. In March 2020 Larsen tested positive for

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.Leipziger Volkszeitung: Weitere Corona-Fälle bei Rhein-Neckar Löwen (german)
18 March 2020

Honours

* German Championship **:

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* Danish Championship: **: 2012, 2013

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* 1991 births Living people Danish male handball players Danish people of Ghanaian descent Expatriate handball players Danish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Rhein-Neckar Löwen players Handball-Bundesliga players Aalborg Håndbold players People from Holbæk Municipality Olympic handball players of Denmark Handball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Olympic medalists in handball Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Denmark Sportspeople from Region Zealand {{Denmark-handball-bio-stub