Cecilie Leganger

Cecilie Leganger

Player information
birthday	March 12, 1975
place of birth	Bergen , Norway
citizenship	Norwegian
height	1.79 m
Playing position	goalkeeper
Club information
society	Career ended
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-0000	Løv-Ham
0000-0000	Fyllingen Håndball
0000-1996	Tertnes IL
1997-2001	Bækkelagets SK
2001-2003	Tertnes IL
2003-2004	Crimea Ljubljana
2004-2008	Slagelse DT
2008-2010	FCK Håndbold
2010-2014	Larvik HK
National team
Debut on	5th February 1993
against	Poland
	Games (goals)
Norway	162 (1)
As of August 22, 2020

Cecilie Leganger (born March 12, 1975 in Bergen , Norway ) is a former Norwegian handball player .

Career

The goalkeeper started playing handball at Løv-Ham when she was 13. After she then played for Fyllingen Håndball and Tertnes IL, she interrupted her career for a year because she felt burned out.

In 1997 she made her comeback at Bækkelagets SK , with which she won a total of five national and international titles in the following four years. She then returned to Ternes IL. Two years later, the world handball player of the year 2001 left Norway to play for the top Slovenian club Krim Ljubljana . With Krim she reached the final of the Champions League, where she was defeated by her later club Slagelse DT . In 2008 Leganger moved to league rivals FCK Håndbold , where she guarded the goal for a total of two years. Leganger then signed a contract with the Norwegian top club Larvik HK . After the 2012/13 season, she ended her career. After a serious injury to Lene Rantala , Leganger was reactivated by Larvik HK in autumn 2013. In the first competitive game on October 5, 2013, she injured the Achilles tendon and was then injured. In September 2014 she announced the end of her career.

She made her international debut in the Norwegian national team on February 2, 1993. She played 162 internationals for Norway, in which she scored 1 goal. With the Norwegian team she won the European Championship in 1998 and the World Championship the following year .

Since 2016 she has been working as a goalkeeper coach in promoting young talent. In autumn 2018 she took over the position of goalkeeping coach from Fana IL.

successes

National team

• 1999 World Championship win
• 2nd place at the 2001 World Cup
• 3rd place at the 1993 World Cup
• Won the European Championship in 1998
• 3rd place at the European Championships in 1994
• Bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games

Club handball

• European Cup Winners' Cup 1998, 1999, 2009
• Norwegian Championship 1999, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014
• Norwegian Cup victory in 1999, 2001
• Slovenian Championship 2004
• 2004 Slovenian Cup victory
• Champions League victory in 2005, 2007, 2011
• Danish Championship 2007
• Danish cup win 2005, 2010

Awards

• World handball player 2001
• Elected to the all-star team for the 1993 World Cup, 1994 World Cup, 1995 World Cup, 1998 World Cup, 1999 World Cup, 2001 World Cup
• Goalkeeper of the Year (Norwegian League) 2001, 2002, 2011, 2012
• Goalkeeper of the Year (Danish League) 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
• Karoline Prisen : 1994
• Award from the International Committee of Fair Play : 1998

Web links

• Cecilie Leganger in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)
• Portrait on evas-handballside.com ( Memento from January 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• Portrait on the homepage of Slagelse DT ( Memento from August 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ International match statistics by Cecilie Leganger
2. ↑ bt.no: Leganger til Larvik , accessed on January 4, 2016
3. ↑ www.handball-world.com: The series of injuries in Larvik does not end , accessed on October 10, 2013
4. ↑ www.op.no: Cecilie Leganger legger opp , accessed on September 22, 2014
5. ↑ www.handball.no: Trener med Cecilie Leganger , accessed on November 9, 2016
6. ↑ fana.topphandball.no: Hun ble kåret til verdens best målvakt som 18-åring , accessed on August 22, 2020
7. ↑ Hedres for fair play