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Camilla Andersen

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Camilla Andersen is a Danish former handball player, born on 5 July 1973, who won Olympic gold twice with the Danish national team, at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, and was also a world champion. With 846 goals she is the top scorer in the history of the Danish women's national team, and she played the sixth most matches for it. She came from a handball family, as both her parents and her maternal grandfather played for Danish national teams. At club level she won the Danish championship in 2003 and the EHF Champions League in 2004. After retiring she built a career in the travel industry. She was admitted to the Danish sports hall of fame in 2012 and the EHF Hall of Fame in 2023.

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1973 1
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Female 1
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5+ 1
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is a Danish former team handball player, two times Olympic champion and a World champion
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1. Olympedia: Camilla Andersen
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  • Biographical information
    Born 5 July 1973 in Gentofte, Hovedstaden DEN
  • Biographical information, gender
    Sex Female
  • Biography
    Denmark and Andersen captured the Olympic gold in 1996 and 2000, the world title in 1997 (runner-up in 1993) and the European title in 1994 and 1996 (silver in 1998).
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    is a Danish former team handball player, two times Olympic champion and a World champion
  • Competed In: 1996 Summer Olympics, Lead, 1996
    She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  • Competed In: 2000 Summer Olympics, Lead, 2000
    She received gold medals with the Danish national team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta and at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
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