Simone Cathrine Petersen (born 28 August 1997) is a Danish

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 ...

player for

Ikast Håndbold Ikast Håndbold is a Danish professional women's handball club based in Ikast. They have competed in Damehåndboldligaen, Denmark's primary handball league, since 1991. History The club was founded as ''Ikast FS Håndboldafdeling'' on 20 June ...

and the Danish national team. She represented Denmark at the

2021 World Women's Handball Championship The 2021 IHF World Women's Handball Championship, the 25th event by the International Handball Federation, was held in Spain from 1 to 19 December 2021. On 18 October 2018, at a congress in Doha, Qatar, the IHF announced that the World Championsh ...

in Spain. She debuted for the Danish national team in 2021 against France. The same year she was at her first major tournament, the 2021 world cup in Spain where she won a bronze medal.

Career

Simone Petersen started playing handball in her hometown

Ringsted Ringsted is a city located centrally in the Danish island of Zealand. It is the seat of a municipality of the same name. Ringsted is situated approximately from Copenhagen. History Ringsted was the site of ''Sjællands Landsting'' (lit. ''Z ...

at TMS Ringsted. While she was enrolled at Københavns Idrætsefterskole in Copenhagen she was on the youth team at BK Ydun. When she returned to Jutland she joined

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, where she debuted in the Danish league at the age of 17. The 14–15 season was especially a prolific season, where she won both the junior and senior Danish Cup and league, as well as the

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and won the European Youth Championship with the Danish U-19 national team. In 2017 she joined the recently created

Aarhus United Aarhus United was a Danish women's handball club based in Aarhus. They played in Damehåndboldligaen, Denmark's premier women's handball league. Aarhus United was founded in 2017 and took over SK Aarhus's league license for the 2017-18 season. ...

, where she quickly became one of the key players. In her first season at the club she won bronze medals in the Danish cup, beating her old club FC Midtjylland in the third place play-off. In 2019 she joined the

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side

TuS Metzingen TuS Metzingen is a German women's handball team from Metzingen and Baden-Württemberg. It currently competes in the Frauen Handball-Bundesliga since 2012. In the 2016-17 season Tus Metzingen broke the attendance record in the Bundesliga, when 6 ...

for a single season before returning to

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Petersen, Simone Cathrine 1997 births Living people Sportspeople from Ringsted Danish female handball players Handball players from Region Zealand Danish expatriate handball players in Germany 21st-century Danish sportswomen