Mads Mensah Larsen

Mads Mensah Larsen

Mads Mensah Larsen (2016)
Player information
birthday	August 12, 1991
place of birth	Holbæk , Denmark
citizenship	Danish
height	1.88 m
Playing position	Back center
	Back left
Throwing hand	right
Club information
society	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
Jersey number	22nd
Clubs as active
from ... to	society
0000-0000	Holbæk Håndbold
0000-0000	Himmerlev
0000-0000	FIF
0000-2010	AG Håndbold
2010–2012	AG København
2010-2011	→ Nordsjælland Håndbold (loan)
2012-2014	Aalborg Håndbold
2014-2020	Rhine-Neckar lion
2020–	SG Flensburg-Handewitt
National team
Debut on	June 17, 2011
against	Brazil
	Games (goals)
Denmark	131 (243)
As of July 28, 2020

Mads Mensah Larsen (born August 12, 1991 in Holbæk ) is a Danish handball player .

Career

Mads Mensah Larsen started playing handball at Holbæk Håndbold and moved to Himmerlev at the age of 14. Larsen came to AG Håndbold via the FIF station, with whose men's team he played in the second highest Danish division. When the clubs AG Håndbold and FCK Håndbold merged in 2010 and AG København was formed, Larsen was loaned to Nordsjælland Håndbold for one season . He then went hunting for goals for AG København. With AG København he won the Danish championship in the 2011/12 season and reached the Final Four of the EHF Champions League . After AG København filed for bankruptcy in summer 2012, he joined Aalborg Håndbold . With Aalborg he won the Danish championship in 2013. For the 2014/15 season he followed his coach Nikolaj Bredahl Jacobsen and moved to the German Bundesliga club Rhein-Neckar Löwen . He has been running for SG Flensburg-Handewitt since the 2020/21 season .

Larsen played for the Danish junior national team, with which he was U20 European champion. Since June 2011, the backcourt player has been part of the Danish senior team , for which he has so far played 131 international matches. With Denmark he took part in the men's handball world championship in 2013 , in which the northern Europeans were runner-up. At the 2014 European Championships in his own country, he was runner-up in Europe. He won the gold medal at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . He became world champion at the 2019 World Cup.

Private

Mads Mensah Larsen has a Ghanaian father and a Danish mother.

He studied culture computer science ( Humanistic Informatics ) at the University of Aalborg .

Seasonal balance sheets

season	society	Division	Games	Gates	7 meters	Field gates
2014/15	Rhine-Neckar lion	Bundesliga	34	74	0	74
2015/16	Rhine-Neckar lion	Bundesliga	32	96	1	95
2016/17	Rhine-Neckar lion	Bundesliga	33	54	0	54
2017/18	Rhine-Neckar lion	Bundesliga	34	106	0	106
2018/19	Rhine-Neckar lion	Bundesliga	33	80	0	80
2014–19	Rhine-Neckar lion	total	166	410	1	409

Source: player profile in the handball Bundesliga

successes

• Danish champion 2012, 2013
• German champion 2016 , 2017
• DHB Supercup 2016, 2017, 2018
• DHB Cup 2018
• Olympic Champion 2016
• World Champion 2019

Web links

• Mads Mensah Larsen on the Rhein-Neckar Löwen website
• Mads Mensah Larsen on the Aalborg Håndbold website
• Mads Mensah Larsen in the database of the European Handball Federation (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.haslund.info: Mads Mensah Larsen accessed on July 28, 2020
2. ↑ Hugger med humør ( Memento from November 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Larsen glæder sig til AGK ( Memento from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ www.zweitewelle.de: Mads Mensah Larsen changes to Aalborg Handball ( Memento from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 2, 2013
5. ↑ handball-world.com: New entry: Rhein-Neckar Löwen get vice world champions , accessed on January 9, 2014
6. ↑ handball-world.news: Change confirmed: Mads Mensah Larsen in Flensburg from summer , accessed on November 19, 2019
7. ↑ www.dhf.dk: Wilbek udtager endelig VM trup , accessed on November 2, 2013
8. ↑ https://www.dkb-handball-bundesliga.de/de/import/ Spieler / mads--mensah- larsen / #s1434504-1= 5c38b15f under "Statistics" and "Historically", accessed on January 11, 2019