Rikke Skov

Rikke Erhardsen Skov, born on 7 September 1980, is a Danish former team handball player and Olympic champion who won gold with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. She joined Viborg HK as a teenager in 1994 and stayed with that club until she retired in 2016, winning the EHF Champions League in 2006, 2009 and 2010, the EHF Cup in 1999 and 2004, four Danish Cups and many Danish Championships. She made her national team debut in 2000 and became captain in 2007. She had played 107 matches and scored 296 goals when she first retired from international handball in 2009, then returned and finally ended her national career in 2011. In 2011 she was the only woman among five handballers to receive the European Handball Federation's EHF Handball Award, and she was named Danish national team player of the year twice. She became a nurse in 2005.