Cecilie Leganger

Norwegian handball player (born 1975)

Cecilie Leganger

Personal information
Born|  (1975-03-12) 12 March 1975 (age 48)
Bergen, Norway
Nationality|  Norwegian
Height|  1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position|  Goalkeeper
Senior clubs
Years|  Team

|  Tertnes HE

1997-2002

|  Bækkelagets SK

2003-2004

|  RK Krim

2004-2008

|  Slagelse FH

2008-2010

|  FCK Håndbold

2010-2014

|  Larvik HK
National team
Years|  Team|  Apps|  (Gls)

1993-2004

|  Norway|  162|  (1)

Medal record

Representing  Norway
Women's Handball
Olympic Games
|  2000 Sydney | Team
World Championship
|  1999 Denmark/Norway  | Team
|  2001 Italy  | Team
|  1993 Norway  | Team
European Championship
|  1998 Netherlands  | Team
|  1994 Germany  | Team

Cecilie Leganger (born 12 March 1975) is a Norwegian retired handballer who played for the Norwegian national team.

## International championships[edit]

Leganger made her debut on the Norwegian national team in 1993, 17 years old, and retired three years later, only 20. In 1993 she obtained bronze medal at the World Women's Handball Championship, being voted as Best Goalkeeper and Most Valuable Player at the championship. At the European Championship in 1994, she was voted best goalkeeper. At the 1995 World Championship she was again voted Best Goalkeeper. After a one-year break she made comeback as a club player, but did not play on the national team until the 1998 European Championship, winning gold medal with the Norwegian team and voted as best keeper in the championship. World Champion in 1999, again voted best keeper. She received bronze medal at the Olympic Championships in Sydney 2000.[1] At the World Championship in 2001 she voted again the best keeper.

## Club player[edit]

As a club player she is Norwegian Champion from 1999 (with Bækkelaget), Slovenian Champion from 2004 (with Krim Ljubljana), Danish Champion from 2005 (with Slagelse), and Women's EHF Champion in 2004/05 and 2006/07. She played for Larvik HK from 2010 until 2014 which would be the last club she played for before retiring. She is considered by many as one of the best goalkeepers of all time.

## Individual awards[edit]

* All-Star Goalkeeper of the World Championship: 1993, 1995, 1999 and 2001
* Most Valuable Player of the World Championship: 1993
* All-Star Goalkeeper of the European Championship: 1994 and 1998
* All-Star Goalkeeper of Gildeserien: 1999/2000, 2000/2001 and 2001/2002
* IHF World Player of the Year: 2001[2][3]
* Goalkeeper of the Year: 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008 and 2008/2009[4] in the Danish League
* Player of the Year in the Danish League: 2007 (selected by the players' committee)[5]
* All-Star Goalkeeper of Postenligaen: 2010/2011 and 2011/2012
* Norwegian national goalkeeper of all time
* Norwegian female handball player of all time

## References[edit]

1. ^ "2000 Summer Olympics - Sydney, Australia - Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved 29 April 2008)
2. ^ Previous World Handball Players Archived 1 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved 11 December 2007)
3. ^ "World Handball Players of the Year" Archived 2 May 2005 at the Wayback Machine - houstonhandball.org (Retrieved 29 April 2008)
4. ^ "Kia Motors Årets Dame Liga All Stars 2008/2009" (in Danish). Håndbold Spiller Foreningen. 13 May 2009. Archived from the original on 17 August 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2009.
5. ^ (in Danish) "Leganger og Mogensen er årets håndboldspillere" - Berlingske Tidende (Lørdag den 5. januar 2008) (Retrieved 29 April 2008)

## External links[edit]

* Cecilie Leganger at the European Handball Federation
* Cecilie Leganger at the Norwegian Handball Federation (in Norwegian)
* Cecilie Leganger at Olympedia

Awards

Preceded by

Bojana Radulović

|  IHF World Player of the Year – Women
2001  | Succeeded by

Zhai Chao

Awards

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IHF World Player of the Year – Women

* Svetlana Kitić (1988)
* Kim Hyun-mee (1989)
* Jasna Kolar-Merdan (1990)
* Mia Hermansson-Högdahl (1994)
* Erzsébet Kocsis (1995)
* Lim O-kyeong (1996)
* Anja Andersen (1997)
* Trine Haltvik (1998)
* Ausra Fridrikas (1999)
* Bojana Radulović (2000)
* Cecilie Leganger (2001)
* Zhai Chao (2002)
* Bojana Radulović (2003)
* Anita Kulcsár (2004)
* Anita Görbicz (2005)
* Nadine Krause (2006)
* Gro Hammerseng-Edin (2007)
* Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren (2008)
* Allison Pineau (2009)
* Cristina Neagu (2010)
* Heidi Løke (2011)
* Alexandra do Nascimento (2012)
* Andrea Lekić (2013)
* Eduarda Amorim (2014)
* Cristina Neagu (2015)
* Cristina Neagu (2016)
* Not awarded (2017)
* Cristina Neagu (2018)
* Stine Bredal Oftedal (2019)
* Not awarded (2020)
* Sandra Toft (2021)

Player of the 20th Century: Zinaida Turchyna (2000)

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