Sandra Toft (born 18 October 1989) is a Danish professional

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goalkeeper for

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and the Danish national team. She is the fifth most capped player ever on the Danish national team with 195 appeances. She made her debut on the Danish national team on 27 March 2008, against

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. She participated for the first time in a major international at the

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in Brazil, where she was the third choice keeper behind

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and Christina Pedersen. She missed the 2013 World Cup in Serbia due to illness.

Club career

Pre-professional career

Toft started playing handbold at Team Helsinge, before joining Virum-Sorgenfri Håndboldklub in 2002 at the age of 14. In 2007, she joined

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for her first professional contract.

Team Tvis Holstebro

At TTH Holstebro, she was part of the team that reached the 2010/2011

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final, where they lost to league rivals

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. In 2012/2013, TTH Holstebro with Toft in goal manage to reach the final once again and win it this time. Toft almost missed the match due to an injury in her left knee in January 2012.

Car crash in 2009

In 2009, Toft was driving back home from

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when she lost control over her vehicle. At 10 pm, north of the city Give, the car spun off the road, flew 50 metres across a field and made four rollovers. Toft survived the car crash, but suffered a severe neck vertebra collapse. Only five months later, she was back on court for

Larvik

In the summer 2014, Toft signed with Norwegian club

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. Here, she won the Norwegian Championship and the norwegian cup three times each in the four years she played for the club. She also reached the

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final in

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where Larvik HK lost to Montenegrin side ŽRK Budućnost. After the tournament She was a part of the tournament all star team as the Best EHF Goalkeeper 2014/2015.

Team Esbjerg

Toft returned to Danish handball in 2017/2018 on a two-year contract. She won the

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in 2017 and the 2018–19 Danish League with the club. In 2019, Toft once again reached the

final, but this time her club lost to Hungarian side

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Brest

In 2019, she joined the French top club Brest Bretagne Handball, where she reached the 2020–21 Women's EHF Champions League. Once again, Toft lost a European final, this time to Norwegian Vipers Kristiansand.

Győr

In 2022, she signed with Hungarian side

, where she won the Hungarian Championship in her first season. She then won the

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and the

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Achievements

: **''Winner:'' 2024, 2025

Individual awards

* IHF World Player of the Year – Women: 2021 * All-Star Goalkeeper of the World Championship:

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* All-Star Goalkeeper of the European Championship:

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* All-Star Team Best Goalkeeper of the

* Handball-Planet.com All-Star Goalkeeper of the Year: 2019

References

External links

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Player info at Team Tvis Holstebro

National game stats at Danish Handball Federation (search for Sandra Toft)
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