Cecilie Leganger

Cecilie Leganger
Personal information
Born (1975-03-12) 12 March 1975
Nationality Norwegian
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Senior clubs



2005-
2010-2014
Tertnes IL
Bækkelagets SK
RK Krim
Slagelse FH
Larvik HK
National team
1993- Norway

Cecilie Leganger (born 12 March 1975) is a former Norwegian team handball goalkeeper, World champion, Olympic medalist, European champion, winner of Champions League, and World Player of the year 2001.

International championships

Leganger made her debut on the Norwegian national team in 1993, 17 years old, and retired three years later, only 20. In 1993 she obtained bronze medal at the World Women's Handball Championship, being voted as Best Goalkeeper and Most Valuable Player at the championship. At the European Championship in 1994, she was voted best goalkeeper. At the 1995 World Championship she was again voted Best Goalkeeper. After a one year break she made comeback as a club player, but did not play on the national team until the 1998 European Championship, winning gold medal with the Norwegian team and voted as best keeper in the championship. World Champion in 1999, again voted best keeper. She received bronze medal at the Olympic Championships in Sydney 2000.[1] At the World Championship in 2001 she voted again the best keeper.

Club player

As a club player she is Norwegian Champion from 1999 (with Bækkelaget), Slovenian Champion from 2004 (with Krim Ljubljana), Danish Champion from 2005 (with Slagelse), and Women's EHF Champion in 2004/05 and 2006/07. She played for Larvik HK from 2010 until 2014 where she retired and she is considered to be best female goalkeeper of all time.

Awards

References

  1. "2000 Summer Olympics Sydney, Australia Handball" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 29 April 2008)
  2. Previous World Handball Players (Retrieved on 11 December 2007)
  3. "World Handball Players of the Year" houstonhandball.org (Retrieved on 29 April 2008)
  4. "Kia Motors Årets Dame Liga All Stars 2008/2009" (in Danish). Håndbold Spiller Foreningen. 13 May 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
  5. (Danish) "Leganger og Mogensen er årets håndboldspillere" Berlingske Tidende (Lørdag den 5. januar 2008) (Retrieved on 29 April 2008)
Awards
Preceded by
Bojana Radulović
IHF World Player of the Year – Women
2001
Succeeded by
Zhai Chao
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