Lukas Lindhard Jørgensen (born 31 March 1999) is a Danish

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor 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 thr ...

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 Danish national team.

Career

Jørgensen started playing handball at his local club Roskilde Håndbold,Hbold.dk profile
/ref> where he played until he started high school in 2015. From then on he played for

GOG Håndbold GOG is a professional handball club based in the small town of Gudme on Funen, Denmark. The club is one of the most successful in the history of Danish handball having won the Danish Handball Championship 9 times and the Danish Handball Cup a r ...

, where he got his league debut in 2018. In 2019, he changed clubs to Århus Håndbold. Initially it was a one-year contract, which was extended further 2 years. When that contract was up, he returned to

when his club Århus Håndbold went bankrupt. Here he won the Danish Championship twice in 2022 and 2023. For the 2023-24 season he joined German side

. Here he won the

EHF European League The EHF European League is an annual men's handball club competition organised by the European Handball Federation (EHF) since 1981. It is the second-tier competition of European club handball, ranking only below the EHF Champions League. Previo ...

in both 2024 and 2025.

National team

Jørgensen made his debut for the Danish national team against Saudi-Arabia on 5 January 2023. His first major international tournament was the 2023 World Championship, where Denmark won gold modals. A year later he won silver medals at the 2024 European Championship. He played all 9 games and scored 20 goals. At the

2024 Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P ...

he won another gold medal, and was included in the tournament all-star team. At the 2025 World Championship he won his second world gold. He played 9 games and scored 21 goals.

Achievements

Danish Handball League The Herreligaen (men's league), formerly known as Herrehåndboldligaen (men's handball league), is the men's top Danish professional handball league. The winners of the Herreligaen are recognised as the Danish men's handball champions. The curr ...

: **''Winner:''

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

Danish Handball Cup The Danish Men's Handball cup () is the nationwide cup tournament for men's handball teams in Denmark. It’s also known as Santander Cup for sponsorship reasons. The competition has been played annually since 1964. Tournament structure The i ...

: **''Winner:'' 2022

Individual awards

* All-Star pivot of the Olympic Games:

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

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of the

Final four 2022 * All-Star Team as Best Pivot Danish League 2022–23

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jorgensen, Lukas 1999 births Living people Danish male handball players Danish expatriate handball players in Germany Handball-Bundesliga players SG Flensburg-Handewitt players GOG players 21st-century Danish sportsmen People from Lejre Municipality Handball players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic handball players for Denmark Handball players from the Capital Region of Denmark Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Denmark Olympic medalists in handball