HANSEN Mikkel

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
6	Men	2012	London, GBR
7	Men	2008	Beijing, CHN

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2021	Egypt
1	Men	2019
2	Men	2013	Spain
2	Men	2011	Sweden
4	Men	2009	Croatia
5	Men	2015	Qatar
10	Men	2017	France

European Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Men	2018	Croatia
13	Men	2020

Mikki (leparisien.fr, 07 Feb 2019)

Athlete

Wife Stephanie Gundelach, son Eddie Max [2019]

Danish, English

Paris Saint-Germain [France] since 2012/13

Raul Gonzalez [club], ESP; Nikolaj Jacobsen [national], DEN

Left back (sport.tv2.dk, 09 Jun 2016)

Right (francehandball2017.com, 04 Jan 2017)

His father Flemming Hansen played handball internationally for Denmark, including at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. (olympicchannel.com, 06 Apr 2020; eurohandball.com, 24 Nov 2015; SportsDeskOnline, 23 Dec 2020)

2007 for Denmark Against Sweden (denstoredanske.dk, 22 Jan 2016)

He was affected by knee problems during 2018. (sport.tv2.dk, 18 Mar 2019)

He was troubled by a knee injury in late 2015. (bt.dk, 12 Nov 2015)

He injured his left foot in 2015. (bt.dk, 08 Jun 2015)

In 2012 he suffered knee and thigh injuries. (fyens.dk, 14 Nov 2012)

Starligue [FRA] (handnews.fr, 14 Apr 2020)

He took up handball as a child at the Helsingor IF club in Denmark. (denstoredanske.dk, 22 Jan 2016; em-haandbold.dk, 20 Dec 2013)

"My father, Flemming Hansen, was a professional handball player, yet I started with football. I was seven years old and I played football to follow my friends. But from age nine, handball became my passion. When I was playing well, the parents of the other players would say, 'It's not surprising because he's Flemming's son'. It made me want to show them that I could have my own destiny." (lequipe.fr, 31 Oct 2020)

He trains up to four hours a day. (performance.dk, 01 Feb 2019)

US basketball player LeBron James, French handball player Nikola Karabatic, Danish handball player Lasse Boesen. (lequipe.fr, 31 Oct 2020; bt.dk, 19 Jan 2011; olympicchannel.com, 06 Apr 2020)

He was named Men's World Player of the Year in 2011, 2015 and 2018 by the International Handball Federation [IHF]. (mundodeportivo.com, 18 Mar 2019; sport.tv2.dk, 09 Jun 2016; insidethegames.biz, 20 Aug 2013)

He was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] at the world championship in 2013, 2019 and 2021. (tokyo2020.org, 01 Feb 2021; leparisien.fr, 07 Feb 2019; handball-planet.com, 27 Jan 2013)

He was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, where Denmark won gold. (handball-planet.com, 21 Aug 2016)