HANDBALL PLAYER

Rikke Skov

1980 - Today

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Rikke Erhardsen Skov (born 7 September 1980) 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. A loyal player of Viborg HK, Skov joined the club yet as a teenager in 1994 and it remained her lone team till she retired in 2016 and retired from active sports when she became pregnant in February 2017. In 2011, she was one of the five handballers, and the only woman who received The EHF Handball Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2024). Rikke Skov is the 344th most popular handball player (down from 323rd in 2024), the 959th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 927th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Danish Handball Player.

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS

Among handball players, Rikke Skov ranks 344 out of 420. Before her are Denis Špoljarić, Jonas Larholm, Tonje Kjærgaard, Henriette Mikkelsen, Ángel Fernández Pérez, and Nely Carla Alberto. After her are Daniel Sarmiento Melián, Mattias Gustafsson, Samuel Honrubia, Mark Dragunski, Kasper Søndergaard, and Tonči Valčić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1980, Rikke Skov ranks 1,178. Before her are Franco Semioli, Mats Larsson, Marlene Weingärtner, Ossi Väänänen, Danny O'Donoghue, and Rastislav Staňa. After her are Ryta Turava, Iván Zarandona, Rebecca Romero, Yuki Yokosawa, Diederik Boer, and Mattias Weinhandl.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Rikke Skov ranks 959 out of 1,032. Before her are Peter Regin (1986), Karen Hækkerup (1974), Patrick Dorgu (2004), Tonje Kjærgaard (1975), Henriette Mikkelsen (1980), and Annika Langvad (1984). After her are Mads Valentin (1996), Daniel Iversen (1997), Kasper Søndergaard (1981), Tine Baun (1979), Kim Wraae Knudsen (1977), and Lotte Kiærskou (1975).

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Among HANDBALL PLAYERS In Denmark

Among handball players born in Denmark, Rikke Skov ranks 35. Before her are Kevin Møller (1989), Kasper Hvidt (1976), Casper Ulrich Mortensen (1989), Karin Mortensen (1977), Tonje Kjærgaard (1975), and Henriette Mikkelsen (1980). After her are Kasper Søndergaard (1981), Lotte Kiærskou (1975), Mads Christiansen (1986), Louise Bager Due (1982), Magnus Saugstrup (1996), and Heidi Astrup (1972).

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