Lois Abbingh


Lois Abbingh is a Dutch handball player who plays for Borussia Dortmund Handball and the 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.
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Career

Abbingh started playing handball at V&S Groningen.
In 2009 she joined E&O Emmen, where she was the top scorer in the Eredivisie in the 2009–10 season. This prompted a move to the German Bundesliga side VfL Oldenburg. Here she won the 2012 DHB-Pokal in 2012.
In 2014 she joined Romanian HCM Baia Mare. Here she played for two years, where she won the Romanian cup in 2015, before joining French Issy Paris Hand. In 2018 she joined Rostov-Don.. Here she won the 2019 and 2020 Russian championship.
In 2020 she joined Danish side Odense Håndbold. Here she won the Danish championship in 2021 and 2022 and the Danish Cup in 2020 in a team, that featured many Dutch national team player including among other Larissa Nüsser and Dione Housheer.
In March 2022 she took a break from handball due to maternity leave.
In 2023 she joined Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand. In her first season at the club she won the Norwegian championship and the Norwegian cup. When she club went bankrupt in January 2025, she joined German side Borussia Dortmund Handball on a 1.5 year contract.

National team

In 2011, she was a key player of the Dutch team that reached the final of the Women's 19 European Championship, just to fell short against Denmark in a close battle to 27–29. Abbingh scored 65 goals in the tournament and won the top scorer's award.
She represented the Netherlands in six World Women's Handball Championship, in four European Women's Handball Championship and two editions of the Olympic Games. At the World Championship in 2017 she became a member of the All-Star team and she was among the top goalscorers, ranking second with her 58 goals scored.
She was a part of the Dutch team at the 2019 World Championship in Japan, where Netherlands won gold medals, beating Spain in the final 30:29 In the final of the 2019 World Championship she scored the winning goal for the Netherlands, when she converted a penalty to make it 30:29 with seconds to go. She was the top scorer at the tournament with 71 goals and a conversion of 62%.
She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics where the Netherlands finished 5th.
At the 2024 Olympics she was chosen as the Dutch flag bearer together with the basketball player Worthy de Jong. The Netherlands finished 5th for a second Olympics in a row.
In November 2025 she announced her intention to retire from the national team after the 2025 World Championship, together with Estavana Polman.

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Awards and recognition