Peter Henriksen
Danish handball player
Peter Henriksen (born 20 August 1972) is a former Danish team handball player (goalkeeper) and current coach. He is European Champion by winning the 2008 European Men's Handball Championship with the Danish national handball team. He also received a bronze medal at the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship. As of 2026 he is the goalkeeping coach at KIF Kolding.
Club career
Henriksen started playing handball at the age of 8. He played for numerous clubs in Northern Sjælland before moving to German handball with VfL Gummersbach in 1998. In 1999 he returned to Denmark to join Virum-Sorgenfri Håndboldklub From 2001 to 2010 he played for GOG Svendborg TGI, where he is considered a club legend. With GOG he won the Danish Championship in 2004 and 2007 and the Danish Cup in 2003, 2004 and 2006. In the 2004-05 he was named the best goalkeeper in the Danish League. Henriksen then joined Fredericia Håndboldklub, who he signed for when GOG went bankrupt in 2010.
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