Cecilie Leganger

Cecilie Leganger
Personal information
Born	12 March 1975; 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
2005-2008	Slagelse FH
2008-2010	FCK Håndbold
2010-2014	Larvik HK
National team
Representing Norway
Women's Handball
Olympic Games
World Championship
European Championship

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

International championships

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

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 where she retired and she is considered to be best female goalkeeper of all time.

Individual awards

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

"2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 29 April 2008)
Previous World Handball Players Archived 1 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 11 December 2007)
"World Handball Players of the Year" Archived 2 May 2005 at the Wayback Machine – houstonhandball.org (Retrieved on 29 April 2008)
"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.
(in Danish) "Leganger og Mogensen er årets håndboldspillere" – Berlingske Tidende (Lørdag den 5. januar 2008) (Retrieved on 29 April 2008)

Awards
Preceded by Bojana Radulović	IHF World Player of the Year – Women 2001	Succeeded by Zhai Chao

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[db-ol2000-handball-1] "2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia – Handball" Archived 7 April 2008 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 29 April 2008)

[ihf-2] Previous World Handball Players Archived 1 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 11 December 2007)

[houston-3] "World Handball Players of the Year" Archived 2 May 2005 at the Wayback Machine – houstonhandball.org (Retrieved on 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.

[bt-leganger-mogensen-5] (in Danish) "Leganger og Mogensen er årets håndboldspillere" – Berlingske Tidende (Lørdag den 5. januar 2008) (Retrieved on 29 April 2008)