Simone Cathrine Petersen (born 28 August 1997) 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

Ikast Håndbold Ikast Håndbold is a Danish women's handball club based in Ikast. They have competed in Damehåndboldligaen, Denmark's primary handball league, since 1991. History The club was founded as ''Ikast FS Håndboldafdeling'' on 20 June 1970 as a mer ...

and the Danish national team. She represented Denmark at the

2021 World Women's Handball Championship The 2021 IHF World Women's Handball Championship, the 25th event by the International Handball Federation, was held in Spain from 1 to 19 December 2021. On 18 October 2018, at a congress in Doha, Qatar, the IHF announced that the World Championsh ...

in Spain. She debuted for the Danish national team in 2021 against France. The same year she was at her first major tournament, the 2021 world cup in Spain where she won a bronze medal.

Career

Simone Petersen started playing handball in her hometown

Ringsted Ringsted is a city located centrally in the Danish island of Zealand. It is the seat of a municipality of the same name. Ringsted is situated approximately 60 km from Copenhagen. Tourism and transport Ringsted is one of Denmark's busiest ...

at TMS Ringsted. While she was enrolled at Københavns Idrætsefterskole in Copenhagen she was on the youth team at BK Ydun. When she returned to Jutland she joined

FC Midtjylland Håndbold FC may refer to: Businesses, organisations, and schools * Fergusson College, a science and arts college in Pune, India * Finncomm Airlines (IATA code) * FranklinCovey company, NYSE stock symbol FC * Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force in Pakist ...

, where she debuted in the Danish league at the age of 17. The 14–15 season was especially a prolific season, where she won both the junior and senior Danish Cup and league, as well as the

EHF Cup Winners' Cup The EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for men's and women's handball clubs of Europe that won their national cup, and took place every year. From the 2012–13 season, the men's competition was merged with the EHF Cup. Winners ...

and won the European Youth Championship with the Danish U-19 national team. In 2017 she joined the recently created

Aarhus United Aarhus United is a Danish women's handball club based in Aarhus. They play in Danish Women's Handball League, Damehåndboldligaen, Denmark's premier women's handball league. Aarhus United was founded in 2017 and took over SK Aarhus's league lic ...

, where she quickly became one of the key players. In her first season at the club she won bronze medals in the Danish cup, beating her old club FC Midtjylland in the third place play-off. In 2019 she joined the

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side

TuS Metzingen TuS Metzingen is a German women's handball team from Metzingen and Baden-Württemberg. It currently competes in the Frauen Handball-Bundesliga since 2012. Kits Honours *Handball-Bundesliga Frauen: **''Finalist:'' 2016 **''Bronze:'' 2015, 2 ...

for a single season before returning to

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Petersen, Simone Cathrine 1997 births Living people People from Ringsted Danish female handball players Handball players from Region Zealand