Niclas Vest Kirkeløkke (born 26 March 1994) 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
Rhein-Neckar Löwen and the
Danish national team. He plays mainly right back, but can cover on the right wing. It is mainly on the national team he has done so.
Career
Niclas Kirkeløkke is the son of
Gun-Britt Kirkeløkke who played many matches on the youth and junior national team in the early 1980s.
Gun-Britt twin sister,
Gun-Maj, also played 25 A-national matches from 1985 to 1987.
His sister,
Sarah Kirkeløkke
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, is also a professional handball player. Niclas Kirkeløkke began his handball career in Risøhøj Håndbold, before making the move to
GOG at the age of 11.
In 2012 he was moved up to the senior team of
GOG. He participated in the
2013 Men's Youth World Handball Championship
The 2013 IHF Men's Youth World Championship was the 5th edition of the tournament and was held at Hungary from 10 – 23 August 2013.
The Oceania Continent Handball Federation withdrew from the tournament.
Denmark defeated Croatia 32–26 in the ...
, winning the tournament by beating Croatia and was named on the all-star team.
Individual awards
*All-Star Right back of the Youth World Championship:
2013
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References
External links
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1994 births
Danish male handball players
Living people
People from Faaborg-Midtfyn Municipality
Expatriate handball players in Germany
Danish expatriate sportspeople in Germany
Rhein-Neckar Löwen players
Handball-Bundesliga players
Handball players from the Region of Southern Denmark
21st-century Danish sportsmen