Rikke Petersen-Schmidt (born 14 January 1975) is a former Danish

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 and two times Olympic champion. She played as a

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

. During her national team career she managed to play 104 games for the Danish National team from 1999 to 2006. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team both at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

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, and at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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."2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball"
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References

1975 births Living people Danish female handball players Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in handball Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Aarhus Handball players from the Central Denmark Region Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{Denmark-Olympic-medalist-stub