Niklas Landin Jacobsen

Niklas Landin

Niklas Landin (2018)
Player information
birthday	December 19, 1988
place of birth	Søborg , Denmark
citizenship	Danish
height	2.01 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	THW Kiel
Jersey number	1
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-2006	KFUM København
2006-2010	GOG Svendborg TGI
2010–2012	Bjerringbro-Silkeborg
2012-2015	Rhine-Neckar lion
2015–	THW Kiel
National team
Debut on	November 28, 2008
against	Austria
	Games (goals)
Denmark	209 (9)
Status: July 22, 2020

Niklas Landin Jacobsen (born December 19, 1988 in Søborg ) is a Danish handball goalkeeper . He was voted world handball player of the year 2019.

Career

The 2.01 meter tall and 102 kilogram goalkeeper initially played for KFUM København. In 2006 he joined the first division club GOG Svendborg TGI . He was then under contract from February 2010 at the first division club Bjerringbro-Silkeborg . For the 2012/2013 season he moved to the German Bundesliga club Rhein-Neckar-Löwen . In August 2014, his move to THW Kiel for the 2015/16 season , with which he signed a three-year contract, was announced.

With Svendborg he played in the EHF Champions League (2007, 2008, 2009) and in the EHF Cup (2009). With the Rhein-Neckar Löwen he won the EHF Europe Cup in 2013 . In 2017 and 2019 he won the DHB Cup with the THW Kiel. In 2019 he won the EHF Cup with the THW Kiel. A year later he won the German championship.

He is part of the Danish national team , so he played at the 2009 World Cup and won the silver medal with Denmark at the 2011 World Cup . In 2012, Landin won the European Championship with the Danish selection . In the summer of 2012, he took part in the Olympic Games in London and reached the quarter-finals. At the 2013 World Cup in Spain he was again runner-up. At the European Championships in 2014 , he was appointed vice European champion and the best goalkeeper in the All-Star team. He won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and was called back to the All-Star team. He became world champion at the 2019 World Cup. In addition, he was elected to the All-Star Team.

family

His younger brother Magnus Landin Jacobsen is also a professional handball player.

successes

society

• Danish champion 2007
• EHF Cup 2013, 2019
• DHB Supercup 2015
• DHB Cup winner 2017, 2019
• German champion 2020

National team

• European Champion 2012
• Gold medal Summer Olympics 2016
• World Champion 2019

Web links

Commons : Niklas Landin Jacobsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Niklas Landin Jacobsen on the Rhein-Neckar Löwen website
• Niklas Landin Jacobsen on the THW Kiel website
• Niklas Landin Jacobsen in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Niklas Landin Jacobsen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.haslund.info: Niklas Landin accessed on July 22, 2020
2. ↑ handball-world.news World handball player chosen: TWH keeper Niklas Landin Jacobsen clears from July 18, 2020, accessed on July 18, 2020
3. ↑ www.handball-world.com, accessed on February 4, 2010
4. ↑ www.rhein-neckar-loewen.de, February 1, 2011
5. ↑ www.rhein-neckar-loewen.de Niklas Landin changes after the end of his contract to THW Kiel on August 7, 2014, accessed on August 7, 2014
6. ↑ handball-world.com: All-Star Team with German participation: Mikkel Hansen honored as MVP , accessed on August 22, 2016
7. ↑ competition.ihf.info: 26th IHF Men's World Championship All-Star Team , accessed on January 29, 2019