Maja Grønbæk
Danish handball player (born 1971)
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Maja Grønbæk (born 30 January 1971) is a Danish former team handball player and Olympic champion.
Amager, Denmark
| Maja Grønbæk | |||||||||||||||||
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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
| Full name | Maja Corinna Grønbek | ||||||||||||||||
| Born |
30 January 1971 Amager, Denmark | ||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Danish | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Left Back | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Team | |||||||||||||||||
– | MK 31 | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior clubs | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
–1992 | Virum-Sorgenfri HK | ||||||||||||||||
1992–2001 | IK Skovbakken | ||||||||||||||||
2001–2005 | SK Århus | ||||||||||||||||
2005–2006 |
FH Handbolti ( Iceland) | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1999–2000 | Denmark | 22 | (56) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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National team
She won a gold medal with the Danish national team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney after making her debut in 1999. She was however only a back-up for most of the matches.[1] She ended up playing 22 matches for the Danish National team.[2]
Career
Grønbæk started playing handball at MK 31 aged, and later joined Virum-Sorgenfri HK. She joined IK Skovbakken in 1992.[1] From 2001 to 2005 she played for SK Aarhus.[1] Grønbæk initially retired in march 2005,[3] but later the same year she came back to professional handball, signing for the Spanish club Cementos.[4] However after only a week at the club, head coach Gregorio Garcia announced that she could not expect playing time. This prompted her to leave the club without even playing a single match. She instead signed a two-month contract with the Icelandic club FH Handbolti.[5]
Today she works as physiotherapist.[6]
