Debbie Bont (born 9 December 1990) is a Dutch

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

former player and current coach. Since July 2024 she has been the coach at the Dutch team Garage Kil/Volendam. As a player, she featured in the Dutch national team. In 2019 she became a World Champion with the Dutch team.

Career

Bont played in the Netherlands for HC Volendam and VOC Amsterdam. With VOC Amsterdam she won the 2008, 2009 and 2010 Dutch championship, 2009 and 2010 Dutch cup and 2008 and 2010 Dutch supercup. In January 2012 she joined Danish side

FC Midtjylland Håndbold FC may refer to: Businesses, organisations, and schools * Fergusson College, a science and arts college in Pune, India * Finncomm Airlines (IATA code) * FranklinCovey company, NYSE stock symbol FC * Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force in Pakis ...

, where she only played for 6 months before joining

HC Leipzig HC Leipzig is a women's handball club based in Leipzig, Germany. They play in Handball-Bundesliga Frauen and are often competing in the EHF Women's Champions League, the now defunct EHF Women's Cup Winners' Cup, which merged with the Women's EHF ...

for the 2012-13 season. Here she won the 2014

DHB-Pokal The DHB-Pokal (English: German Handball Federation Cup) is an elimination handball tournament held annually in Germany. It is the second most important handball national title in the country after the Handball-Bundesliga championship. DHB-Pokal ...

. In 2014 she joined Dutch side SV Dalfsen. In July 2015 she moved back to Denmark and joined

København Håndbold København Håndbold is a Danish women's handball club from Copenhagen, Denmark. It was established in the winter of 2013. It took over the league licence from Frederiksberg IF and is playing in the Bambusa Kvindeligaen. The club is owned by K ...

. Here she won the 2018 Danish championship; the first title in the history of the club. In 2020 she joined French team

Metz Handball Metz Handball is a French handball club from Metz, France. Founded in 1965 under the name ASPTT Metz, the club has an exceptional track record with some 40 titles won, which is the all-time record for a French women's team sport. Chaired by Thierr ...

. Here she won the 2022 and 2023 French championship and Cup double. She left the club in 2023.

National team

Bont debuted for the Dutch national team on March 7th 2009 against Spain. She represented the Netherlands in six

World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game ...

(in Brazil 2011, in Serbia 2013, winning silver in Denmark 2015, bronze in Germany 2017, gold in

Japan 2019 Events in the year 2019 in Japan. In the history of Japan, it marks the final year of Heisei period, Heisei 31 (平成31年 ''Heisei sanjūichinen''), after the abdication of Emperor Akihito on April 30, and the beginning of the Reiwa period, Re ...

and in Spain 2021), one edition of the

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games (Olympics; ) are the world's preeminent international Olympic sports, sporting events. They feature summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a Multi-s ...

and in five

European Championships A European Championship is the top level international sports competition between European athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. In the plural, the European Championships also refers t ...

(in Denmark & Norway 2010, in Hungary & Croatia 2014, winning silver in Sweden 2016, bronze in France 2018 and in Denmark 2020). She retired from the Dutch national team in 2022, one year before stopping at club level.handbal.nl: ''Handbalster Debbie Bont beëindigt haar interlandcarrière''
retrieved 14. February 2023 She played 216 games for the Dutch team, scoring 425 goals.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bont, Debbie 1990 births Living people Dutch female handball players Dutch handball coaches People from Edam-Volendam Dutch expatriate handball players in Germany Dutch expatriate handball players in Denmark Dutch expatriate handball players in France FCM Håndbold players Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from North Holland Olympic handball players for the Netherlands 21st-century Dutch sportswomen Metz Handball players