Emil Jakobsen (born 24 January 1998) is a Danish handball player for the German club

SG Flensburg-Handewitt SG Flensburg-Handewitt is a professional handball club from Flensburg and Handewitt in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Currently, they compete in the Handball-Bundesliga and EHF European League. They play home matches at Flens-Arena. Since formi ...

and the Danish national team. He joined his current club, Flensburg-Handewitt in 2021 on a three year contract. In 2022 he announced that he had prolonged the contract until 2026. He represented Denmark at the

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and the

2023 World Men's Handball Championship The 2023 IHF World Men's Handball Championship is the 28th such event hosted by the International Handball Federation. It is currently being held in Poland and Sweden from 11 to 29 January 2023. Denmark are the two-times defending World Champions ...

, where he won gold medals on both occasions.

Career

Emil Jakobsen started playing handball in his hometown at Kerteminde HK. He switched to the

GOG Håndbold GOG is a handball club based in the small town of Gudme on Funen, Denmark. The club is one of the most successful in the history of Danish handball having won the Danish Handball Championship 8 times and the Danish Handball Cup a record 10 times ...

youth team in 2011. In the 2016/2017 he debuted for the league senior team. In the 2017/18 season he came third in the league, and in 2018/2019 he came second with GOG. In 2019 he won the

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. In the 2020-2021 season with

he was the top scorer in the EHF European League.

Achievements

* Top Scorer at the 2020–21 EHF European League (96 goals) * All-Star Team as Best Left wing Danish League: 2019–20, 2020–21 * All-Star Team as Best Left Wing at the 2017 Youth World Championship

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* 1998 births Living people Danish male handball players People from Kerteminde Handball players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Denmark Olympic medalists in handball Handball players from the Region of Southern Denmark Olympic handball players for Denmark Expatriate handball players Danish expatriate sportspeople in Germany Handball-Bundesliga players SG Flensburg-Handewitt players 21st-century Danish sportsmen {{Denmark-handball-bio-stub