Xenia Smits

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Xenia Smits
Xenia Smits

Xenia Smits (2016)

Player information
birthday April 22, 1994
place of birth Wilrijk , Belgium
citizenship GermanGerman German
height 1.82 m
Playing position Back left
Throwing hand right
Club information
society SG BBM Bietigheim
Jersey number 22nd
Clubs in the youth
from ... to society
2007-2008 BelgiumBelgium HC Rhino
2008-2010 GermanyGermany HSG Bad Wildungen
2010-2013 GermanyGermany HSG Blomberg-Lippe
Clubs as active
from ... to society
2010-2015 GermanyGermany HSG Blomberg-Lippe
2015-2020 FranceFrance Metz handball
2020– GermanyGermany SG BBM Bietigheim
National team
Debut on November 29, 2014
against RomaniaRomania Romania
  Games (goals)
GermanyGermany Germany 57 (136)

Status: July 18, 2020

Xenia Smits (born April 22, 1994 in Wilrijk ) is a German handball player of Belgian origin.

Career

Xenia Smits started with handball in Belgium. In 2008 she came to Germany and attended the handball performance center of the HSG Bad Wildungen . In 2010, the 1.82-meter tall back player moved to HSG Blomberg-Lippe , where she was used in the handball Bundesliga in the 2010/11 season . In 2013 she was honored with the Erhard Wunderlich Memorial Prize as handball talent of the year because in the 2012/13 season she was already one of the top performers of the Bundesliga team as an A-youth . From summer 2015 she played for the French first division team Metz Handball . With Metz she won the French championship in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 and the French cup in 2017 and 2019. In summer 2020 she moved to the German Bundesliga club SG BBM Bietigheim .

From 2011, Smits took part in courses of the German Handball Federation. She could not take part in the U-19 European Championship in August 2013, for which she was nominated, because she was not yet naturalized at the time. On November 13, 2013, she was appointed by national coach Heine Jensen to the extended squad of the German women's national team for the 2013 World Cup . A year later, Smits took part in the European Championship , where she scored one goal in five games. In the same year she took part in the U-20 World Cup in Croatia , where she came fourth with the German team. In 2015 she was appointed by national coach Jakob Vestergaard to the 16-man squad for the 2015 women's handball world championship in Denmark . She has played 57 games so far in which she scored 136 goals.

Others

Her younger sisters Munia Smits and Aaricia Smits are also handball players .

Web links

Commons : Xenia Smits  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dhb.de: First EURO test: DHB team is subject to Romania with 23:27 on November 29, 2014, accessed on November 30, 2014
  2. ↑ dhb.de: Xenia Smits accessed on July 18, 2020
  3. ↑ a b blomberger-anzeiger.de: HSG: Xenia Smits remains Blombergerin ( memento from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from April 26, 2012, accessed on November 13, 2013
  4. ↑ a b handball-world.com: Belgian Smits is “Handball Talent of the Year” from August 22, 2013, accessed on November 13, 2013
  5. ↑ metz-handball.com: Xénia Smits en jaune et bleu of March 12, 2015, accessed on March 12, 2015
  6. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: SG BBM Bietigheim brings national player Xenia Smits on January 16, 2020, accessed on January 17, 2020
  7. ↑ dhb.de: Course at the Olympic base Rhein-Neckar / Help from THW Kiel ( Memento from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ dhb.de: Short course with perspective players from December 23, 2012, accessed on November 13, 2013
  9. ↑ dhb.de: List for the U19 European Championship on July 17, 2013, accessed on November 13, 2013
  10. ↑ handball-world.com: 16 plus 2: National coach Jensen names the World Cup line-up from November 13, 2013, accessed on November 13, 2013
  11. ↑ eurohandball.com: Statistics from Xenia Smits at the EM 2014 from January 10, 2015, accessed on January 10, 2015
  12. ↑ HSG Blomberg-Lippe binds "a very talented player"
  13. ↑ VfL Waiblingen signs Smits
personal data
SURNAME Smits, Xenia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German handball player
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilrijk