Anna Kristensen | |
Fullname: | Anna Opstrup Kristensen |
Nationality: | Danish |
Birth Date: | 25 October 2000 |
Birth Place: | Skanderborg, Denmark |
Height: | 1.81 m |
Position: | Goalkeeper |
Currentclub: | Team Esbjerg |
Clubnumber: | 12 |
Youthyears1: | 2009–2018 |
Youthclubs1: | Skanderborg Håndbold |
Years1: | 2017–2019 |
Clubs1: | Skanderborg Håndbold |
Years2: | 2019–2023 |
Clubs2: | Viborg HK |
Years3: | 02/2023– |
Clubs3: | Team Esbjerg |
Nationalyears1: | 2019– |
Nationalteam1: | Denmark |
Nationalcaps1: | 26 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
Ntupdate: | 31. January 2024 |
Anna Opstrup Kristensen (born 25 October 2000) is a Danish handball player for Team Esbjerg and the Danish national team.[1] [2]
She also represented Denmark in the 2017 European Women's U-17 Handball Championship, 2018 Women's Youth World Handball Championship, and in the 2019 Women's Junior European Handball Championship, placing 6th all three times.[3]
She made her debut on the Danish national team on 21 March 2019.[4]
Anna Kristensen started playing for her local club Skanderborg Håndbold, before she switched to Danish top club Viborg HK.[1] In her first season at the club they came third in the league, and Kristensen won the best goalkeeper in the league award.[5]
At the end of 2022, she signed a pre-contract with league rivals Team Esbjerg, which was supposed to start in the summer of 2023. However, due to Esbjerg lacking options at the goalkeeper position, they agreed that she would join the club already in January 2023.[6] The same season, she won the Danish Women's Handball Cup with Esbjerg and won the Årets Pokalfighter (cup fighter of the year) award.[7]