Inger Smits


Inger Smits is a Dutch handball player for Romanian club CSM București and the Netherlands women's national [handball team|Dutch national team].
She was a part the Netherlands team that won the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship; the first title in the country's history.

Career

Smits started playing handball at her hometown club V&L. In 2011 she joined HandbaL Venlo, where she played for two years before moving to SV Dalfsen. Here she won the Dutch championship in 2014 and 2015 and the Dutch cup and Supercup in 2015.
In 2015 she joined VfL Oldenburg. Two years later she joined Danish side Team [Tvis Holstebro]. Two years later she returned to Germany when she joined Borussia Dortmund. Here she won the German championship in 2021.
In the summer of 2021 she joined league rivals SG BBM Bietigheim. Here she won the 2021, 2022 and 2023 DHB-Supercup, the 2022, 2023 and 2024 German championship, the 2022 European League and the 2023 DHB-Pokal.
In 2024 she joined Romanian CSM București.

National team

Smits played 37 games for the Dutch youth team.
At the 2018 European Championship she won bronze medals, although she only played in the last match, the third place playoff.
At the 2019 World Championship in Japan she won gold medals with the dutch team, beating Spain in the final 30:29 She was however injured during the first round and was replaced by Delaila Amega.
At the 2020 Olympics she also represented the Dutch team.
At the 2023 World Championship she and the Netherlands finished 5th. She scored 8 goals during the tournament.

Private life

Her father and mother Cecile Leenen were also handball players. Her brothers Kay and Jorn are also international handball players.

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