Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren

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Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren
Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren
Player information
Nickname "Linka"
birthday August 1, 1984
place of birth Ski, Norway
citizenship NorwegianNorwegian Norwegian
height 1.75 m
Playing position Back right
  Right winger
Throwing hand Left
Club information
society Career ended
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
0000-1999 NorwayNorway Ski IL Håndball
1999-2000 NorwayNorway Holmlia Sports Club
2000-2002 NorwayNorway Furuset Håndballklubb
Clubs as active
from ... to society
2002-2009 NorwayNorway Larvik HK
2009-2010 DenmarkDenmark FCK Håndbold
2010-2017 NorwayNorway Larvik HK
National team
Debut on September 23, 2003
against CroatiaCroatia Croatia
  Games (goals)
NorwayNorway Norway 279 (971)

As of October 16, 2019

Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren (born August 1, 1984 in Ski , Norway ) is a former Norwegian handball player . She played for Larvik HK and in the Norwegian national handball team . In 2008 she was elected world handball player.

Career

In the club

Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren started playing handball at the age of four in her home town at Ski IL Håndball, where she was trained by her mother, among other things. She also played soccer until she was 15 . In 1999 she joined the Holmlia Sports Club. A year later Riegelhuth moved to Furuset Håndballklubb. Here, the then youth player was also able to collect match practice in the women's team, which competed in the 1st division, the second highest Norwegian league.

In 2002 Riegelhuth signed a contract with the Norwegian top club Larvik HK . When her teammate Kristine Duvholt Havnås became pregnant in the fall of 2002, she received a large share of the game from then on. In her first season, the left-handed player , who played in the right back or on the right wing , also won the championship. In the following seasons she developed into a high performer in Larvik. After Riegelhuth had to share the top scorer crown of the Norwegian elite series with Linn Jørum Sulland in the 2005/06 season , she set a new league record one season later with 221 goals in one season. In addition to five other championship titles with Larvik (2005 to 2009), she won the European Cup Winners' Cup in 2005 and 2008 .

In the summer of 2009 Riegelhuth moved to the Danish first division club FCK Håndbold . In January 2, 2010 she won the Danish Cup with the FCK coached by Anja Andersen . In the regular 2009/10 season, FCK took first place. The Norwegian scored a total of 124 goals in 22 championship games and finished second in the scorers list with Ann Grete Nørgaard . In the play-offs of the 2009/10 season, however, the FCK did not manage to qualify for the championship finals.

In summer 2010 Riegelhuth returned to Larvik HK. With Larvik, she won the championship in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 and the EHF Champions League in 2011 . On January 7, 2015, she played her 500th competitive game for Larvik. She has been on maternity leave since May 2015. In March 2016 she celebrated her comeback in the league game against Rælingen Håndballklubb . On September 24, 2017, she played the last game of her career against Glassverket IF . After Riegelhuth Koren had been on maternity leave from October 2017, she announced the end of her career in December 2018.

In the national team

Riegelhuth Koren initially put on the jersey of the Norwegian youth national team 14 times. Then she was used 27 times for the Norwegian junior selection, with which she won the bronze medal at the 2003 Junior World Championships.

The left-hander made her senior national team debut on September 23, 2003. That same year, she took the World Championship part in their first major tournament. After Norway failed to qualify for the Olympic Games , Riegelhuth was part of the Norwegian squad at the 2004 European Championships . With Norway she was in the final, which Norway won with 27:25 against Denmark . Riegelhuth contributed five goals to the final victory. At the 2005 World Cup , she was unable to participate due to a serious hand injury.

Riegelhuth returned to the national team in April 2006. At the end of the year she took part in the European Championships in Sweden. With Norway she managed to defend the European title against Russia . A year later she was again in the final of the World Cup against Russia, but this time the Russian selection successfully prevailed. At the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , Norway and Russia faced each other in the final. In the 34:27 final victory over Russia, Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth was the most dangerous player of the encounter with nine goals.

With Norway she managed to defend the European Championship again in 2008 . Riegelhuth won the top scorer's crown with 51 goals and was elected to the Allstar team. With the Norwegian selection, she finished third at the 2009 World Cup in China and was re-elected to the Allstar team. A year later, Riegelhuth triumphed with the Norwegian team for the fourth time in a row at the European Championship .

Riegelhuth played her fourth World Cup in 2011 in Brazil . With a 32:24 win over France , she won the world title for the first time. In the summer of 2012, Riegelhuth Koren again took part in the Olympic Games , where she again won the gold medal. On October 6, 2012, Riegelhuth scored her 800th international goal for Norway, which was only achieved before her by Kjersti Grini , Cathrine Roll-Matthiesen , Susann Goksør Bjerkrheim and Trine Haltvik . At the EM 2012 in Serbia , she was in the EM final, which Montenegro won for the fifth time in a row . At the 2013 World Cup , she was eliminated with Norway in the quarter-finals. During the tournament she scored 13 goals in seven games. When she triumphed in the 2014 European Championship final , she was the most successful player in her team with ten goals. She won the bronze medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

successes

  • Norwegian champion: 2002/03, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 , 2016/17
  • Norwegian Cup Winner: 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2008/09, 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13, 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 , 2016/17
  • Danish cup winner: 2009/10
  • EHF Champions League winner: 2010/11
  • European Cup Winner's Cup winner : 2004/05, 2007/08
  • Gold medal in the Olympic Games : 2008, 2012
  • Bronze medal in the Olympic Games: 2016
  • World Champion : 2011
  • Vice World Champion: 2007
  • European champions : 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2014
  • Vice European Champion: 2012

Awards

  • World handball player : 2008
  • Elite Series Player of the Year : 2007
  • Top scorer in the European Championship: 2008
  • Election to the Allstar-Team: 2008 (EM), 2009 (WM)

Private

Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren has a German father. Her sister Betina Riegelhuth also plays in the highest Norwegian league. In summer 2011 she married the Norwegian handball player Einar Sand Koren . In December 2015, she gave birth to a daughter.

Web links

Commons : Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ handballold.nif.no: Totaloversikt for Koren, Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth , accessed on December 26, 2017
  2. ↑ rp-online.de: Kieler Omeyer Welthandballer 2008 , accessed on January 10, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c europamester.dk: Linn Kristin Riegelhuth - det største talent ( Memento from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ handball.no: Topscore Eliteserien kvinner Sesongen 2005/2006
  5. ↑ handball.no: Årets Beste i Eliteserien Kvinner , accessed on January 10, 2013
  6. ↑ dr.dk: Norsk klassespiller til FCK Håndbold , accessed on 10 January 2013
  7. ↑ dhf.dk: FCK pokalmestre efter dramatisk afslutning , accessed on January 10, 2013
  8. ↑ dhf.dk: Beretning 2010 , accessed on January 10, 2013
  9. ↑ vg.no: Riegelhuth tilbake til Larvik , accessed on January 10, 2013
  10. ↑ larvikhk.no: Seier i jubileumskampen , accessed on January 7, 2015
  11. ↑ handball-world.com: Norway's most experienced player says goodbye on maternity leave , accessed on May 29, 2015
  12. ↑ op.no: LHK slet lenge mot Rælingen , accessed on March 27, 2016
  13. ↑ tv2.no: Riegelhuth Koren er gravid , accessed on August 12, 2018
  14. ↑ larvikhk.no: “Linka” legger opp , accessed on October 16, 2019
  15. ↑ nrk.no: Kjempet seg til EM-gull , accessed on January 8, 2016
  16. ↑ dagbladet.no: VM ryker for Riegelhuth , accessed on January 10, 2013
  17. ↑ handball-world.com: Norway after 27:24 over Russia for the third time European champion , accessed on January 10, 2013
  18. ↑ focus.de: Norwegians win handball gold , accessed on October 17, 2019
  19. ↑ handball-world.news: Grit Jurack elected to the all-star team of the EM , accessed on October 17, 2019
  20. ↑ sprache.de: World handball player Riegelhuth in Allstar-Team , accessed on October 17, 2019
  21. ↑ handball-world.com: Norway defends European Championship title for the third time , accessed on January 10, 2013
  22. ↑ handball.no: Jada, det ble VM-gul , accessed on January 10, 2013
  23. ↑ handball-world.news: Final without a loser, Norway cheers for gold , accessed on October 17, 2019
  24. ↑ aftenposten.no: Håndballjentene tapte for Danmark , accessed on October 17, 2019
  25. ↑ Cumulative Statistics , accessed December 23, 2013
  26. ↑ handball-world.com: Sixth EM gold: Norway wrestles Spain after 5:10 deficit , accessed on December 21, 2014
  27. ↑ handball.no: Årets spiller , accessed on January 10, 2013
  28. ↑ aftenposten.no: Hun er verdensbest , accessed on October 17, 2019
  29. ↑ tv2.no: Nå er håndball-paret Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth and Einar Sand Koren gift , accessed on January 10, 2013
  30. ↑ vg.no: Mamma Riegelhuth Koren vil til OL , accessed on March 27, 2016
World handball player of the year
Women

Svetlana Dašić-Kitić  (1988) | Kim Hyun-mee  (1989) | Jasna Kolar-Merdan  (1990) | Mia Hermansson-Högdahl  (1994) | Erzsébet Kocsis  (1995) | Lim O-kyeong  (1996) | Anja Andersen  (1997) | Trine Haltvik  (1998) | Ausra Fridrikas  (1999) | Bojana Radulovics  (2000) | Cecilie Leganger  (2001) | Zhai Chao  (2002) | Bojana Radulovics  (2003) | Anita Kulcsár  (2004) | Anita Görbicz  (2005) | Nadine Krause  (2006) | Gro Hammerseng-Edin  (2007) | Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth Koren  (2008) | Allison Pineau  (2009) | Cristina Neagu  (2010) | Heidi Løke  (2011) | Alexandra do Nascimento  (2012) | Andrea Lekić  (2013) | Eduarda Amorim  (2014) | Cristina Neagu  (2015) | Cristina Neagu  (2016) | Cristina Neagu  (2018) | Stine Bredal Oftedal  (2019)

Men

Veselin Vujović  (1988) | Kang Jae-won  (1989) | Magnus Wislander  (1990) | Talant Dujshebaev  (1994) | Jackson Richardson  (1995) | Talant Dujshebaev  (1996) | Stéphane Stoecklin  (1997) | Daniel Stephan  (1998) | Rafael Guijosa  (1999) | Dragan Škrbić  (2000) | Yoon Kyung-shin  (2001) | Bertrand Gille  (2002) | Ivano Balić  (2003) | Henning Fritz  (2004) | Arpad Šterbik  (2005) | Ivano Balić  (2006) | Nikola Karabatić  (2007) | Thierry Omeyer  (2008) | Sławomir Szmal  (2009) | Filip Jícha  (2010) | Mikkel Hansen  (2011) | Daniel Narcisse  (2012) | Domagoj Duvnjak  (2013) | Nikola Karabatić  (2014) | Mikkel Hansen  (2015) | Nikola Karabatić  (2016) | Mikkel Hansen  (2018) | Niklas Landin Jacobsen  (2019)

Best player of all time: Gheorghe Gruia (1992), Ivano Balić and Svetlana Dašić-Kitić (2010)
personal data
SURNAME Koren, Linn-Kristin Riegelhuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Riegelhuth, Linn-Kristin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian handball player
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Ski (Norway)