| Simone Petersen | |
| Fullname: | Simone Cathrine Petersen |
| Nationality: | Danish |
| Birth Date: | 28 August 1997 |
| Birth Place: | Ringsted, Denmark |
| Height: | 1.75 m |
| Position: | Centre back |
| Currentclub: | Ikast Håndbold |
| Clubnumber: | 8 |
| Clubs1: | TMS Ringsted |
| Clubs2: | BK Ydun |
| Years3: | 2014–2017 |
| Clubs3: | FC Midtjylland Håndbold |
| Years4: | 2017–2019 |
| Clubs4: | Aarhus United |
| Years5: | 2019–2020 |
| Clubs5: | TuS Metzingen |
| Clubs6: | Ikast Håndbold |
| Years6: | 2020– |
| Nationalyears1: | 2021– |
| Nationalteam1: | Denmark |
| Nationalcaps1: | 57 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 92 |
Simone Cathrine Petersen (born 28 August 1997) is a Danish handball player for Ikast Håndbold and the Danish national team.[1] [2]
She represented Denmark at the 2021 World Women's Handball Championship in Spain.[3]
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[4] where she won a bronze medal.[5]
Simone Petersen started playing handball in her hometown Ringsted 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, 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 and won the European Youth Championship with the Danish U-19 national team.[6]
In 2017 she joined the recently created Aarhus United, where she quickly became one of the key players.[7] 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.[8]
In 2019 she joined the German Bundesliga side TuS Metzingen for a single season before returning to FC Midtjylland Håndbold.[9]