Lærke Møller (born 14 January 1989) is a former 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, who last played for the club Team Esbjerg and for the Danish women's national handball team. She has worked as a handball expert on the Danish tv-channel TV 2.

Career

Lærke Møller started playing at a hometown club HK Star at age 7. During childhood she also played for Visse IF, before joining Aalborg DH. At the age of 16 she debuted for the senior team in a Champion League match. Shortly after she signed her first profesional contract. She was a part of the Aalborg league team until she was 20, where she switched to

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. Here she won two Danish championships in 2011 and 2013 and the Danish cup in 2012. After 5 years she joined league rivals

TTH Holstebro TTH Holstebro is a men's handball club from Holstebro, Denmark. The team is playing in the Danish Primo Tours Ligaen and play their home matches in Gråkjær Arena. History The club was founded on 1 May 2000, when Holstebro Håndbold 90 a ...

. After 2 seasons she joined Team Esbjerg. She retired in 2018 after two years at Team Esbjerg, but without ever playing a match for them due to injuries. Lærke Møller debuted for the Danish national team in 2007, aged 18. At the

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she was the Danish top scorer at the tournament with 28 goals, and was widely praised as the best performing dane in the Danish press. She missed the

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due to a torn achilles tendon at training the day before the start of the tournament. She also missed the

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due to a shoulder injury. At the

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she reached the third place playoff with the Danish team, where they lost to Romania and thus finished fourth.

Private life

She is in a relationship with the Danish football player Thomas Enevoldsen, with whom she has a child.

Achievements

Damehåndboldligaen The Kvindeligaen () is the top professional league for Danish women's handball clubs. It is administered by the Danish Handball Federation, and the winners are recognized as Danish champions. The league was previously called Bambusa Kvindeligaen ...

: **''Winner'': 2011, 2013 **''Silver Medalist'': 2009, 2014 **''Bronze Medalist'': 2006, 2007, 2012 * DHF Landspokalturneringen: **''Winner'': 2012 *

EHF Cup 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 ...

: **''Winner'': 2011 **''Semifinalist'': 2013

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moller, Laerke 1989 births Living people Handball players from Aalborg Danish female handball players 21st-century Danish sportswomen FCM Håndbold players TTH Holstebro players Team Esbjerg players