Anne Dorthe Tanderup

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

Anne Dorthe Tanderup
Personal information
Full name Anne Dorthe Tanderup
Born (1972-04-24) 24 April 1972
Aarhus, Denmark
Nationality Danish
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position Back[1]
Youth career
Years Team
1981–1990
 Brabrand IF
Senior clubs
Years Team
1990–1991
 Brabrand IF
1991–1992
 Hypobank Samsung
1992–1998
 Viborg HK
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1991–1997
 Danmark 88 (179)
Medal record
Women's handball
Representing  Denmark
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta Team competition
World Championship
Silver medal – second place 1993 Norway Team competition
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Austria/Hungary Team competition
Gold medal – first place 1997 Germany Team competition
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 1994 Germany Team competition
Gold medal – first place 1996 Denmark Team competition

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]

References
  1. "Olympiske Håndboldskoler 2004" (in Danish). Olympiske Håndboldskoler 2004. Archived from the original on 6 March 2005. Retrieved 6 March 2014.
  2. "Frauen - Österreichische Meister seit 1972" (in German). Österreichischer Handball Bund. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  3. "Erfolge - Verein - Handball Hypo NÖ" (in German). Handball Hypo NÖ. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  4. "Viborg HK - Pokalskabet" (in Danish). Viborg HK. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  5. "European Handball Federation - Viborg HK". European Handball Federation. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  6. "Anne Dorte Tanderup: Guldets pris" (in Danish). Krop+fysik. Archived from the original on 24 June 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
  7. Tanderup, Anne Dorthe (8 October 2013). Min vej til et sundt liv [My way to a healthy life] (in Danish). Politikens Forlag. ISBN 9788740012279.
  8. Tanderup, Anne Dorthe (8 October 2013). Min vej til et sundt liv [My way to a healthy life] (in Danish). Politikens Forlag. ISBN 9788740012279.
  9. Tanderup, Anne Dorthe (8 October 2013). 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 1 August 2009. Retrieved 1 August 2009.
  11. Seeberg, Kenan (6 September 2013). "Anne Dorthe: Bjarne reddede mig fra krævende kæreste" (in Danish). BT. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
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