Lois Abbingh (born 13 August 1992) is a Dutch handball player who plays for Borussia Dortmund Handball and the Dutch national team.[1] She was a part the Netherlands team that won the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship; the first title in the country's history.[2][3]

Career

Abbingh started playing handball at V&S Groningen.[4]

In 2009 she joined E&O Emmen, where she was the top scorer in the Eredivisie in the 2009-10 season. This prompted a move to the German Bundesliga side VfL Oldenburg.[5] Here she won the 2012 DHB-Pokal in 2012.

In 2014 she joined Romanian HCM Baia Mare.[6] Here she played for two years, where she won the Romanian cup in 2015, before joining French Issy Paris Hand.[7] In 2018 she joined Rostov-Don..[8] Here she won the 2019 and 2020 Russian chanpionship.

In 2020 she joined Danish side Odense Håndbold.[9] Here she won the Danish championship in 2021 and 2022 and the Danish cup in 2020[10] in a team, that featured many Dutch national team player including among other Larissa Nüsser and Dione Housheer.

In March 2022 she took a break from handball due to maternity leave.[11]

In 2023 she joined Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand.[12] In her first season at the club she won the Norwegian championship and the Norwegian cup. When she club went bankrupt in January 2025,[13] she joined German side Borussia Dortmund Handball on a 1.5 year contract.[14]

National Team

In 2011, she was a key player of the Dutch team that reached the final of the Women's 19 European Championship, just to fell short against Denmark in a close battle to 27–29. Abbingh scored 65 goals in the tournament and won the top scorer's award.[15]

She represented the Netherlands in six World Women's Handball Championship (winning a silver in Denmark 2015,[16] a bronze in Germany 2017,[17] and winning gold in Japan 2019), in four European Women's Handball Championship (winning a silver in Sweden 2016[18]) and two editions of the Olympic Games (finishing fourth in Rio 2016 and fifth in Tokyo 2020).[19] At the World Championship in 2017 she became a member of the All-Star team (as the best Left Back of the competition) and she was among the top goalscorers, ranking second with her 58 goals scored.[20]

She was a part of the Dutch team at the 2019 World Championship in Japan, where Netherlands won gold medals, beating Spain in the final 30:29[3][21] In the final of the 2019 World Championship she scored the winning goal for the Netherlands, when she converted a penalty to make it 30:29 with seconds to go.[22] She was the top scorer at the tournament.

She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics where the Netherlands finished 5th.[23]

At the 2024 Olympics she was chosen as the Dutch flag bearer together with the basketball player Worthy de Jong. [24] The Netherlands finished 5th for a second Olympics in a row.

Achievements

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ "Lois Abbingh Profile". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  2. ^ Redactie (4 November 2019). "Mayonnade maakt definitieve WK-selectie bekend". handbal.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  3. ^ a b 2019 World Women's Handball Championship roster
  4. ^ "Lois Abbingh". rtvnoord.nl. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  5. ^ "VfL verpflichtet zwei niederländische Talente" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 28 August 2018.
  6. ^ "HCM Baia Mare a transferat-o pe Lois Abbingh" (in Romanian). actualmm.ro. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Transfermarkt: Erste Niederländerin in Paris" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
  8. ^ "Frühere Oldenburgerin Abbingh künftig in Russland" (in German). handball-world.com. Retrieved 16 March 2018.
  9. ^ "Spillertilgang og spillerafgang i Odense Håndbold" (in Danish). Odense Håndbold. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  10. ^ a b c "The Double: Odense Håndbold vinder også pokalfinalen" (in Danish). TV2 Fyn. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  11. ^ "Odense muss auf Lois Abbingh verzichten: Frühere Bundesligaspielerin erwartet erstes Kind" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  12. ^ "Lois Abbingh er klar for Vipers Kristiansand" (in Norwegian). Vipers Kristiansand. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  13. ^ "Norsk storklub går konkurs - igen" [Norwegian top club in bankrupt - again] (in Danish). Danmarks Radio. 13 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
  14. ^ "Toptransfer: BVB holt Weltmeisterin aus Kristiansand" (in German). handball-world.news. Retrieved 7 February 2025.
  15. ^ "Denmark triumph at Women's 19 EURO". European Handball Federation. 14 August 2011. Retrieved 6 December 2011.
  16. ^ "Grimsbø Shines as Norway Claim the Title". International Handball Federation. 20 December 2018.
  17. ^ "The Netherlands claim second consecutive World Championship medal". International Handball Federation. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  18. ^ "'Heja Norge' for the seventh time". swe2016.ehf-euro.com. 18 December 2016.
  19. ^ "Norway secure third consecutive medal". International Handball Federation. 20 August 2016.
  20. ^ "The Germany 2017 All-star Team". International Handball Federation. 17 December 2017.
  21. ^ "Holland er verdensmester for første gang" [Netherlands are world champions for the first time ever] (in Danish). TV2 Danmark. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
  22. ^ Kjær, Christian (15 December 2019). "VM-finalen afgjort af kontroversiel kendelse: - Det er ikke fair" [World Cup final decided by controversial call: "It is not fair."] (in Danish). TV2 Danmark. Retrieved 9 February 2025.
  23. ^ "ABBINGH Lois". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
  24. ^ "Netherlands projected to win 16 gold medals at Paris Olympics; flag bearers are "proud"". nltimes.nl. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
  25. ^ "World Female Best 8 in 2019!". handball-planet.com. 20 January 2020.
  26. ^ "Pokalfightere" (in Danish). Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
Olympic Games
Preceded by Flag bearer for the Netherlands
2024 opening ceremony
With: Worthy de Jong 		Succeeded by
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