Lærke Nolsøe Pedersen (born 19 February 1996) 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 Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub and the Danish national team. She represented Denmark at the

2019 World Women's Handball Championship The 2019 IHF World Women's Handball Championship, the 24th event hosted by the International Handball Federation, was held in Japan from 30 November to 15 December 2019. The Netherlands won their first title after defeating Spain in the final. Th ...

in Japan and 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 ...

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. In the latter she won a bronze medal with the Denmark team.

Club career

Nolsøe started her career at

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 ...

, before switching to Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub in 2016. It was the move of former TTH coach Niels Agesen that motivated her move to the South Danish club. With NFH she won the Danish Championship in her first season. This was the first national championship in club history. In 2021 she switched to

Viborg HK Viborg HK (Viborg Håndbold Klub) is a Danish professional handball club from Viborg, Denmark, Viborg. The club has many teams for both women and men, but especially the professional women's team is one of the most successful in Danish and Euro ...

, where she won silver medals in 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 her first season. In August 2022 she took a break from handball due to pregnancy leave. She returned in April 2023. I 2023 she returned to NFH, where she played for a season, before joining

Ikast Håndbold Ikast Håndbold is a Danish professional 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 ...

National team

She debuted for the Danish National team on October 8th, 2015 against Norway.

International honours

EHF Cup Winners' Cup The EHF Cup Winners' Cup was the official competition for men's and women's handball clubs of Europe Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocea ...

: **''Winner'':

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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'':

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Individual awards

* All-Star Left Wing of the IHF Junior World Championship:

*All-Star Left Wing of the Danish League: 2018/19, 2020/2021

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Nolsoe, Laerke 1996 births Living people Handball players from Aalborg Danish female handball players TTH Holstebro players Nykøbing Falster Håndboldklub players FCM Håndbold players 21st-century Danish sportswomen