Anne Dorthe Tanderup

Anne Dorthe Tanderup

Personal information
Full name	Anne Dorthe Tanderup
Born	24 April 1972 Aarhus, Denmark
Nationality	Danish
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	Back[1]
Club information
Youth clubs
1981–1990	Brabrand IF
Senior clubs
1990–1991 1991–1992 1992–1998	Brabrand IF Hypobank Samsung Viborg HK
National team
1991–1997	Danmark	88 (179)
Medal record Women's handball Representing  Denmark Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Team competition World Championship 1993 Norway Team competition 1995 Austria/Hungary Team competition 1997 Germany Team competition European Championship 1994 Germany Team competition 1996 Denmark Team competition

Anne Dorthe Tanderup (born April 24, 1972 in Aarhus, Denmark) is a former professional Danish team handball player, Olympic and World Champion.

Career

Tanderup's career as a handball player commenced when joining Brabrand IF's youth team. Shortly after being drafted to the senior team, she had a stint with the long-reigning champion of the Austrian league Hypobank Samsung (later renamed to Hypo Niederösterreich) where she won the league championship^[2] as well as the Champions League.^[3] After one season, she returned to Denmark where she spent the rest of her career at Viborg HK. While at Viborg HK, the team won the Danish Championship four times in a row, became three-times Danish Cup winner and won the EHF Cup in 1994.^[4] In 1997 she managed to reach the Champions League finals with Viborg HK, but the team lost to Mar Valencia.^[5]

Tanderup received a gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics with the Danish national team, became World Champion at the 1997 World Championship and is a two-times European Champion.

During her sports career, Tanderup struggled with several injuries to her knee. Eventually, 25 years of age, her handball career came to an abrupt end at the 1997 World Championship, when she suffered a fatal knee injury causing chronic pain ever since.^[6][7]

Private life

After several years out of public view, she started studying nutrition in 2008^[8] and works as a nutritionist now. In her book “Min vej til et sundt liv” (Danish: “My way to a healthy life”) published in 2013, she describes the shift in focus in her life following the end of her sports career.^[9]

She is married to former professional Danish road bicycle racer and Tour de France winner Bjarne Riis whom she met at the 1996 Summer Olympics.^[10][11] Together with their four sons, the couple lives in Lugano, Switzerland.^[6]

External links

• Anne Dorthe Tanderup at Damehåndbolddatabasen (in Danish)
• Anne Dorthe Tanderup at the European Handball Federation's database
• Anne Dorthe Tanderup's Olympic record at Sports Reference

References

1. "Olympiske Håndboldskoler 2004" (in Danish). Olympiske Håndboldskoler 2004. Archived from the original on 2005-03-06. Retrieved 2014-03-06.
2. "Frauen - Österreichische Meister seit 1972" (in German). Österreichischer Handball Bund. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
3. "Erfolge - Verein - Handball Hypo NÖ" (in German). Handball Hypo NÖ. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
4. "Viborg HK - Pokalskabet" (in Danish). Viborg HK. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
5. "European Handball Federation - Viborg HK". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 2016-01-23.
6. "Anne Dorte Tanderup: Guldets pris" (in Danish). Krop+fysik. Archived from the original on 2015-06-24. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
7. Tanderup, Anne Dorthe (2013-10-08). Min vej til et sundt liv [My way to a healthy life] (in Danish). Politikens Forlag. ISBN 9788740012279.
8. Tanderup, Anne Dorthe (2013-10-08). Min vej til et sundt liv [My way to a healthy life] (in Danish). Politikens Forlag. ISBN 9788740012279.
9. Tanderup, Anne Dorthe (2013-10-08). Min vej til et sundt liv [My way to a healthy life] (in Danish). Politikens Forlag. ISBN 9788740012279.
10. "Ørnen lander på lørdag" (in Danish). Vejle Amts Folkeblad. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2009-08-01.
11. Seeberg, Kenan (2013-09-06). "Anne Dorthe: Bjarne reddede mig fra krævende kæreste" (in Danish). BT. Retrieved 2015-06-15.