Rikke Hørlykke
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| Full name | Rikke Hørlykke Bruun Jørgensen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 May 1976 Vejle, Denmark | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rikke Hørlykke Bruun Jørgensen (born 2 May 1976) is a Danish former team handball player and Olympic champion. She received a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[1][2] Additionally she won the European Championship 2002, and the Danish league and EHF Champions League in 2004.
At club level she played for a long list of clubs around Copenhagen, including Virum-Sorgenfri HK, Værløse HK, Ballerup HK and Frederiksberg IF. She also played for the German club TV Lützellinden in the 1998-99 season.[3] Here she won the DHB-Pokal. From 2001 to 2004 she played for GOG Håndbold, followed by Slagelse DT before retiring in 2006 due to pregnancy.[4] In 2011 she made a comeback for FIF.[5] In January 2012 she rejoined Virum-Sorgenfri HK and helped them getting promoted to the Danish 1st Division.[6] She retired for a second time after the 2012-13 season.
In 2000, she married the handball player Klavs Jørgensen.[7] After her playing career she has worked as a TV-show host and as a personal trainer.[8]
References
- ^ "2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece – Handball". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 7 April 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2008.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rikke Hørlykke". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012.
Full name: Rikke Hørlykke Jørgensen
- ^ www.eurohandball.com: Rikke Hørlykke – Saison 1998/99
- ^ www.dr.dk: Gravid Rikke Hørlykke stopper
- ^ www.sporten.dk: FIF får hjælp fra landsholds-koryfæer
- ^ www.jv.dk: Rikke Hørlykke gør comeback
- ^ "Har du 9,5 mio. kr.? Kendt håndboldpar har sat Nordsjælland-sommerhuset til salg". Berlingske.dk (in Danish). 1 September 2017. Retrieved 1 April 2021.
- ^ "Gift med dansk landstræner: Det kostede hende jobbet" (in Danish). Ekstra Bladet. 23 November 2015. Retrieved 13 February 2026.