BIOGRAPHY
Over 20 years after she stopped her career, Camilla Andersen still holds the record for the most goals scored for the Danish national team - 846, in 194 games.
Andersen was always going to be a handball player, with both her parents and her maternal grandfather also representing Denmark. Her playing career started at Virum Sorgenfri, before she moved to Copenhagen in 1991. Andersen spent three separate stints playing for F.C. København, and indeed almost all her club career was spent in Denmark - save for three years with Buxtehuder in Germany and one with Bækkelagets in Norway.
On the club level, Andersen’s most successful years came at Slagelse, where she was part of the ‘dream team’ which won the EHF Cup in 2003 and the EHF Champions League in 2004. She also won the Danish championship with Slagelse in 2003.
But Andersen really made her name during her international career for Denmark, which started in 1992 and ended only in 2000. She was part of the Danish squads that scooped back-to-back Olympic gold medals in Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000, on top of World Championship gold in 1997 and EHF EURO gold in 1994 and 1996.
Andersen was All-star centre back at the EHF EURO in 1994 and 1996 and at the World Championship in 1997.
She retired from the national team in 2000 and from her club career five years later, aged 32.
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