Anna Opstrup Kristensen (born 25 October 2000) is a Danish handball player for Team Esbjerg and the Danish national team.[1][2]
| Anna Kristensen | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Anna Opstrup Kristensen | ||
| Born | 25 October 2000 Skanderborg, Denmark | ||
| Nationality | Danish | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Team Esbjerg | ||
| Number | 12 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
2009–2018 | Skanderborg Håndbold | ||
| Senior clubs | |||
| Years | Team | ||
2017–2019 | Skanderborg Håndbold | ||
2019–2023 | Viborg HK | ||
02/2023– | Team Esbjerg | ||
| National team 1 | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2019– | Denmark | 26 | (0) |
| 1 National team caps and goals correct as of 31. January 2024 | |||
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]
Career
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. But 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]
Achievements
- Damehåndboldligaen:
- Danish Women's Handball Cup:
- Winner: 2022
Individual awards
- Best Goalkeeper of Damehåndboldligaen: 2019/20
- Player of the Year Viborg HK: 2020
- All-Star Goalkeeper of Damehåndboldligaen: 2019/2020,[8] 2020/2021[9]
- Youth player of the Year in Damehåndboldligaen: 2019/2020, 2020/21[10]
- MVP of the Danish Women's Handball Cup Final four 2022
